Women at the Blue Mosque

On Wednesdays (the day allocated for female prayers), a MSI mobile team is providing counseling and selling contraceptives inside the Blue Mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif - a famous landmark in Afghanistan.

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Train Afghan Women to Champion Reproductive Health

Afghanistan Women and Girls

Safer World Matching Funds

Building on a successful prior project, Marie Stopes International Afghanistan plans to train the wives of 60 local religious leaders (Mullahs) to dispense information and counseling about family planning and reproductive health among women in their community. By sharing information in a culturally and religiously appropriate context and providing referrals to local clinics, these women will work to improve access to and use of life-saving reproductive health and family planning services.

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