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Haiti: Donate for Reproductive Health Supplies in an Emergency Setting

January 20, 2010 at 5:48 pm | Posted 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

Countdown 2015 Factsheet on SRH

November 16, 2009 at 3:56 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Tags: Countdown 2015, fact sheet, Reproductive Health, reproductive health supplies, RHSupplies

countdown2015b_new Countdown 2015 Europe released a Fact Sheet “The Role of Sexual and Reproductive Health in Strengthening Health Systems: Recommendations for European Institutions and Donors” .

For more detailed information, get the full report “The Role of Reproductive Health and Reproductive Health Supplies in Strengthening Health Systems”.

Second South Caucasus Youth Reproductive Health and Rights Forum in Batumi, Georgia

September 21, 2009 at 4:40 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Tags: EPF, Reproductive Health, reproductive rights, UNFPA

unfpa EPF_ White background On 12-13 September, EPF and UNFPA Georgia organised the Second South Caucasus Youth Reproductive Health and Rights Forum, which took place in Batumi, Georgia and hosted by the local Adjaran Government and Batumi City Hall. More than 70 participants from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and other European countries, including Government representatives, Parliamentarians, international organisations, such as UN and EC, civil society representatives and young people gathered in Batumi to present the achievements in improving the situation of the reproductive health of young people and their access to services as a result of the three year EC/UNFPA Reproductive Health Initiative for Youth in South Caucasus, a partnership led by UNFPA with the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development, with the generous support of the European Commission.

Through inter-country and country activities, the project has greatly contributed to the expansion of the sexual and reproductive health services in line with International Conference on Population and Development and Millennium Development Goals. Within the three years, 78 youth RH information and medical-information centres opened across the region; 1240 young peer educators received training and during the project duration already provided more than 40000 young people with information on their sexual and reproductive health and rights; over 2900 health care professionals received trainings on youth friendly reproductive health services and new legislative acts on reproductive health, family planning and healthy and harmonious education are in the process of development in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Source: EPF

For more information please contact Marina Davidashvili at EPF

Virtual Forum on Family Planning in the Context of Decentralization

September 17, 2009 at 10:44 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Tags: family planning, GEN, Reproductive Health, USAID, virtual forum

globalexchange The Global Exchange Network for Reproductive Health (GEN) invites to an international virtual forum entitled “Family Planning in the Context of Decentralization: Successes, Challenges, and the role of Leadership and Negotiation”. The forum will be held from September 28 to October 2, 2009, with financing from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

During the forum, some of the more relevant RH and FP issues as they relate to health sector reform will be reviewed. A practical approach to effective negotiation that can be useful to reach agreements aimed at developing RH and FP within these complex reform processes shall be developed.

From the invitation:

“Within this context, Reproductive Health (RH) and Family Planning (FP)
programs and services have undergone – and some are still undergoing -
very interesting changes, particularly in the way services are delivered
and delivery strategies are developed. The main purpose of the virtual
forum is to look at these changes, and how effective leadership and
negotiation can contribute to the positive development of RH and FP
within the context of health service reform and decentralization.

During the forum, we will review some of the more relevant RH and FP
issues as they relate to health sector reform. We will then try to
develop a practical approach to effective negotiation that can be useful
to reach agreements aimed at developing RH and FP within these complex
reform processes. We will look at successful experiences, the strategies
used and the lessons we can draw from these experiences. Finally, we
will share ideas for the future and how we see RH and FP in a
decentralized health sector.

During the forum, you will have the opportunity to:

1. Share the situation of RH and FP programs in our countries within
the context of health sector reform, together with the challenges,
achievements and lessons learned.
2. Review the PICO (Person, Interests, Criteria, Options) approach to
effective agreements and negotiations for the development of RH
and FP within the context of health sector decentralization and
reform.
3. Discuss the challenges, strategies and achievements of RH and FP
program experiences in health sector reform.
4. Create a shared vision for the development of RH and FP services
in a decentralized health sector, and examine how leadership and
effective negotiation can contribute to this vision.”

To sign up please use the GEN homepage. You’ll have to log in or register.