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Marie Stopes International: Engaging the Private Sector for Maximum Impact and Reach

This presentation describes MSI's social franchising model, which aims to improve the quality of care and variety of services offered by private providers in countries where MSI is active.

MSI estimates that the services provided by MSI’s social franchising network in 2013 will achieve the following impact:

• Unintended pregnancies averted: 1,230,000
• Maternal deaths averted: 2,500
• Child deaths averted: 22,200
• Unsafe abortions averted: 379,000
• Direct healthcare costs saved: £52,830,000

It was presented at a panel event held in March 2014 by the SHOPS project on The Role of the Private Sector in the Provision of Family Planning: Past, Present, and Future. A version of the presentation was also presented at the 2013 International Conference on Family Planning in Addis Ababa.