MSI Pakistan

In many countries, MSI collaborates with locally registered organisations to make reproductive health services available to underserved communities. In Pakistan, MSI partners with Marie Stopes Society (MSS), a locally registered social enterprise with national coverage focused on serving the unmet reproductive health needs of women and men across the country.

MSS works closely with the Departments of Health and Population Welfare in each province as well as government stakeholders at the district level, and technical working groups to enable access to family planning (FP) and other SRH services throughout Pakistan. 

MSS operates across a large proportion of the country and their services are available to more than 70 million people. Over the past decade, they are estimated to have averted more than 8,000 maternal deaths. It is one of six countries that account for more than half of all maternal deaths worldwide, and 65% of the country’s 184 million people live in rural areas. 

How MSS helps deliver services in Pakistan:

MSS uses a range of approaches to ensure that they can help as many women as possible to choose if, and when, they get pregnant. 

Currently, they have: 

Centres in urban areas. 
Outreach teams taking contraception to public health facilities in rural areas. 
Private healthcare providers operating under the social franchise brand, Suraj. 
Health service providers, take information and contraception to women in the communities where they live. 

Pakistan is one of six countries that account for over 50% of all maternal deaths worldwide.

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How we help deliver services in Pakistan

MSI’s teams in Pakistan use a range of approaches to ensure that they can help as many women as possible to choose if, and when, they get pregnant.

There are currently:

• Centres in urban areas.
• Outreach teams taking contraception to public health facilities in rural areas.
• Private healthcare providers operating under the social franchise brand, Suraj.
• Health service providers, delivering information and contraception to women in the communities where they live.
• One maternal and child health centre providing emergency obstetric care 24 hours a day.

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