Dana Hovig

Marie Stopes International

Dana Hovig is Marie Stopes International’s Chief Executive and has worked for over 20 years in development and family planning. 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 has been delivering contraception, safe abortion, and mother and baby care for over thirty years and operate in 39 countries around the world. Their clients are at the centre of everything we do: through innovation and partnerships, underserved women and couples are able to access services and make choices about their sexual and reproductive health. By providing high quality services where they are needed the most, Marie Stopes International prevents unnecessary deaths and make a sustainable impact on the lives of millions of people every year. For more information, please visit Marie Stopes International’s website.

A Call to Action: Integrate Family Planning and HIV Services to Save Women’s Lives

In 2012, three years before the 2015 deadline the world set for itself to reduce preventable maternal deaths and new HIV infections, we must act more boldly than we have up until now. The global health community must work to bring family planning and HIV services together – and quickly – to save women’s lives.