Member Associations

The Mauritanian Association for the Promotion of the Family is a member association of the IPPF. It was created in 1988 and works mainly in the provision of SRH/FP services. AMPF works to ensure that all individuals, especially the underserved and vulnerable, have access to high quality SRH information and services. Services are delivered through 4 fixed centers (Dar Naim, Carrefour, Rosso, Nouadhibou):  2 maternity centers (1 in the Malian refugee camp in M'Berra and 1 in Dar Naim); 3 mobile teams and 4 youth information and education centers (1 in Rosso, 1 in Kaédi, 1 in Dar Naim and 1 in Nouadhibou)  

Created in 1965, APROFA is a non-profit public interest organization with more than 50 years of experience in the defense of sexual and reproductive rights of all people. They provide sexual health care with a gender perspective and a rights-based approach that facilitates access and information on safe and effective contraceptive methods, allowing people to make decisions in tune with their lifestyles and thus avoid unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, prevent situations of gender-based violence and all those possibilities that come with the lack of information. They have developed a line of education, generating awareness and training activities for the educational community in general, families and health professionals, with the purpose that more people are trained in Comprehensive Sexuality Education and thus children and young people receive the tools and skills to live a life free of violence, without gender stereotypes, have negotiation strategies and inhabit the consent. They aspire to a world where all people are free to decide; free to seek a healthy and responsible sexual life; and a world where gender, gender identity and sexuality are free.