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New IPPF Fact Charts

February 9, 2010 at 11:14 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Tags: IPPF, advocacy, fact sheet, essential drugs, budget line, public funding

IPPF released two new “From advocacy to access” fact charts. The first chart shows how advocacy by IPPF Member Association, UMATI led to a $ 4.5 million increase to the national governments funding for family planning supplies and that four out of five targeted districts committed to create budget lines and increasing funding for family planning: A voice united: How do you create political priority for family planning?

The second fact chart explains how advocacy by the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana increased the number of contraceptives on Ghana’s National Essential Medicines list. Now, Ghana Health Service is able to provide oral contraceptives, IUDs, male and female condoms and emergency contraception: Partnerships for choice: How do you increase contraceptive choice through strategic networking?

Registration for the 10th APA Conference open now

February 8, 2010 at 3:40 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Tags: APA, Asia, Conference, ICPD, MDGs, Pacific

The registration process for attending the 10^th Asia Pacific Alliance (APA) Conference is now open. The Conference will take place on 17 and 18 of May 2010, at Millennium Hilton Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand.

While international leaders have committed to end poverty, many countries in the Asia and the Pacific are lagging far behind in work to achieve the MDGs. With only five years left to achieve the MDGs, time is fast running out. Advocacy to ensure decision-makers increase and maintain commitments to sexual and reproductive health remains critical. The 10th APA Conference will focus on action and bring together representatives from NGOs, youth organisations, governments and donor agencies active in Asia and the Pacific.

The form is designed to help organizers prepare a useful conference programme, and ensure there is space at the conference for participants to share skills and experiences in your advocacy work. If you wish to attend, please complete the registration form and return it by email to conference@asiapacificalliance.org. In order to arrange a room at the hotel and/or to apply for a funded place at the conference, you must return this form before 15 March 2010.

Happy, Healthy and Hot

February 8, 2010 at 3:21 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Happy, Healthy and Hot is a guide for young people living with HIV (YPLHIV) to help them understand their sexual rights, and live healthy, fun, happy and sexually fulfilling lives. The guide aims to give information on how YPLHIV can increase sexual pleasure, take care of their health, practice safer sex, have children (if they choose to do so), develop strong intimate relationships and access support. It builds on IPPF’s Sexual Rights Declaration and supports its implementation.

To view the full document online please visit: Happy, Healthy and Hot or www.ippf.org/en/Resources/

New Emergency Contraceptive Pill

February 2, 2010 at 3:37 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

According to The Lancet, the new emergency contraceptive pill ellaOne® (ulipristal acetate) is effective in preventing pregnancies for up to five days after unprotected sex. This is longer than any protection against pregnancy developed so far. The pill may prevent up to two-thirds of unwanted pregnancies if taken within 72 hours, and 50% if taken within five days.

Get the full article from www.thelancet.com.

Call for Free RH Supplies for Haiti

January 29, 2010 at 6:58 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

The Reproductive Health Response in Conflict (RHRC) Consortium calls humanitarian actors to provide reproductive health supplies and services for women affected by the earthquakes in Haiti. RHSC asks for the delivery of clean delivery kits to all visibly pregnant women. According to the consortium 7,000 of 63,000 pregnant women will deliver in the the coming month and 15% of pregnant women will require care for life threatening pregnancy complications. Furthermore, the consortium asks for the distribution of condoms at no cost to prevent spread of HIV and easy access to free contraceptives as women are unable to access their usual methods of contraception.

Get the full statement.

RH Supplies Advocacy Toolkit in French

January 28, 2010 at 1:44 pm | In Project RMA | Leave a Comment
Tags: capacity building, French, online, Resources, toolkit, Tools

On January 8 , Project RMA hosted a reception subsequent to the West African regional AHEAD workshop and presented the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition and its working groups, as well as the opportunities and advantages of membership of the Coalition.

Moreover, resources that the Coalition offers on its website were presented to the 20 speakers and participants from NGOs, UNFPA, the World Bank etc. Among those resources, Project RMA introduced the recently launched French version of the advocacy guide and toolkit “Make a Case for Supplies: Leading Voices in Securing Reproductive Health Supplies.”

For more information please contact Sabine Weber at DSW.

Advancing Healthy Advocacy for RH

January 28, 2010 at 1:20 pm | In Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Tags: Funding, national budget, Resource Mobilization, RH

Capacity-Building for NGOs in Africa and Asia

In partnership with Equilibres et Populations, DSW conducted its last of four capacity-building regional workshops of the AHEAD project in Burkina Faso in January. The four AHEAD workshops aimed at increasing the capacity more than 50 civil society organizations in four regions in Africa and Asia to advocate effectively for greater national support to reproductive health in the new aid architecture. The main outcomes of the workshops are the country based advocacy action plans that the participants from each country developed and will implement from 2010 onwards.
At the West African workhop in January, DSW trained 16 participants from Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, and Niger on how to affect the policy and budgeting processes of their national governments to increase funding for reproductive health. Speakers included representatives of the AAFPPD (Forum of African and Arab Parliamentarians on Population and Development), the World Bank, and UNFPA. For more information on the AHEAD project, visit DSWs website.

Free Female Condoms in Rwanda

January 27, 2010 at 5:11 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Tags: Female Condom, Rwanda

The Rwandan government aims to significantly increase the use of male and female condoms. The governemnt launched a three-month campaign, which focuses on high-risk groups such as sex workers and discordant couples, in December 2009. The campain aims to change attitudes to the use of condoms and to reduce HIV infections among the youth by at least 50 percent. It is estimated that the average number of condom use per year in Rwanda by sexually active people is three only. Female condoms are now distributed free of charge, while male condoms are subsidized and a pack of three is available for US$0,17.

Source: IRIN Plus News January 12th 2010

Haiti: Donate for Reproductive Health Supplies in an Emergency Setting

January 20, 2010 at 5:48 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Tags: emergency setting, Haiti, Reproductive Health

PROFAMIL Haiti is asking for your help. PROFAMIL is the Haitian partner of International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Regions (IPPF/WHR) and has been working to improve the lives of Haitians since 1984. PROFAMIL clinics in Jacmel and Port-au-Prince have been seriously damaged, and to resume mobile services of first aid and family planning in tent cities where displaced persons have gathered. PROFAMIL’s Executive Director has severely infected wounds and had to be evacuated out of Port-au-Prince to receive care. Because the damaged clinics are inaccessible, PROFAMIL is urgently collecting money to mobilize human resources and purchase supplies, including first aid and medicines. If you want to donate, you have the possibility to do so here. Your gift will directly support the maintenance and restoration of basic services that PROFAMIL and PROFAMILIA can provide to those affected. Your donation will be instantly directed towards supporting the affected people of Haiti until 28 February 2010.

UPDATE:

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has made a $500,000 emergency grant to IPPF/WHR to provide reproductive and basic primary health care to Haitians affected by the recent earthquake. PROFAMIL will offer sexual and reproductive health services as well as primary health care through mobile units in Port-au-Prince and Jacmel.PROFAMIL has created a task force to determine the duration and intensity of needs in terms of staff, services, and supplies over the short term. Its staff and community health promoters in the two cities will organize the mobile health units to bring primary health care, obstetric care, family planning, and HIV prevention services to tent cities and other temporary shelters that are being established in and around both cities.

Colectiva Mujer y Salud is also working to secure reproductive health is this emergency setting. Colectiva Mujer y Salud is a member organization of The Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Health Network (LACWHN). LACWHN is based in Chile, and coordinates activities of regional organisations, networks and individuals to promote women’s health and human rights, particularly in the field of sexual and reproductive rights. To donate to Colectiva Mujer y Salud, please use the details below.

Colectiva Mujer y Salud
Banco de Reservas
Cta. Corriente No. 010-251497-6
Swift code o ABA No. BRRDDOSD
C/ Isabel La Católica No. 201
Zona Colonial
Santo Domingo, República Dominicana