[4] The first family planning clinic ever established in Great Britain, the Mother's Clinic for Constructive Birth Control[5] was established by British author, birth control campaigner and women's rights activist Marie Stopes with her husband Humphrey Verdon Roe in March 1921 and operated virtually uninterrupted until 1975 on the same premises at number 61, Marlborough Road in Holloway, North London.
[citation needed] Operating in later years as the Marie Stopes Foundation, in 1975 the organization found itself bankrupt and entered voluntary administration.
It was taken over by Population Services Family Planning Programme Ltd, the European branch of Population Services International (PSI), under the direction of British physician Tim Black, who re-founded the organisation as a social business named Marie Stopes International in 1976.
[9] In 2008, Marie Stopes International opened in Mexico City state, where legislative change enabled improved access to abortion services.
Their partners include Action for Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, British Expertise, The Children's Investment Fund Foundation, German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), Global Financing Facility, KFW Bankengruppe, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UK Department for International Development, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank, and the World Health Organization (WHO).