Our outreach teams have built a reputation across Papua New Guinea for providing quality services to those in hard to reach and rural locations. Our focus is in the area of long acting permanent methods LAPM provision, complimenting access to short-term contraception methods with information and education of alternative family planning methods that may suit our clients better.
Ensuring access to our clinical services in hard to reach and rural areas across Papua New Guinea. Our outreach teams are comprised of both experienced clinical and health promotion staff. Team members consist of individuals from the local communities in which we work, ensuring we always have people on hand who speak local languages and have good working relationships with government partners.
Sophie first heard about Marie Stopes in from her sisters who had received implants from the Marie Stopes Goroka clinic. My husband is very supportive. He gardens and hawks things. Sophie had complications with her last birth so had come for an implant.
She also wanted advice. She wanted family planning as she has many children and they were not well spaced. Her youngest are 3 years, 2 years and 5 months. After her first three children, she used the oral contraceptive pill and injections, but found it difficult to regularly travel to the hospital for follow up treatment.
We currently operate Clinics in Lae and Port Moresby. These centres provide quality, voluntary family planning services and a full range of other sexual reproductive health services. Our team works to build the capacity of local healthcare providers through extensive clinical supervision and mentoring. Supporting women to take up take up contraceptive services immediately after their delivery, if they wish to space their children.
