Helen Marsden

Marie Stopes International

Helen has been working as Press and PR Officer for Marie Stopes International since July 2011, and prior to that worked in cervical cancer prevention.

Millions of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable women trust Marie Stopes International to provide them with quality family planning and reproductive healthcare. Marie Stopes International have been delivering contraception, safe abortion and mother and baby care for over thirty years and have offices and operations in 40 countries around the world.

The team at Marie Stopes International are always finding innovative new ways of working so that we can best serve our clients, who are at the centre of everything we do. We build partnerships with both governments and non-state providers so that underserved women and men in rural areas and urban slums have a greater choice when it comes to family planning and their sexual and reproductive health. Through our work, Marie Stopes International prevents unnecessary deaths and makes a sustainable impact on the lives of millions of people every year.

For more information, please visit the Marie Stopes International website.

Sexual and Reproductive Health: the Year in Review

Helen Marsden

For much of the world, it’s the time of year for family, feasting, present giving, and of course the annual review. They always say if you can’t beat them join them, so here’s Marie Stopes International’s look back at what proved to be a pivotal year in sexual and reproductive health, and a peek forward at 2012.