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Increasing access to voluntary family planning services is key to the success of Millennium Development Goal 5, which calls for reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health services. With renewed country interests and commitments, now is a crucial moment to ensure this important, cost-effective intervention is part of a scaled up global maternal health response. Maureen Norton, senior technical advisor with USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health; Jessica Bowers, portfolio director for Every Mother Counts; Jonathon Cooper, country director of Marie Stopes Uganda; Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, senior director of CARE’s Health Equity Unit; and Sarah Craven, chief of UNFPA’s Washington Office spoke at the Wilson Center on July 31 about achieving this goal.
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Sonia Melten received free healthcare during the Tropical Cyclone Harold humanitarian response in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
photo by Lorena Espinoza Peña
May 6, 2009 in the Dominican Republic: protest against Congress' new legislation to severely restrict reproductive health access.
Didu Leereh is proud that his wife Daw Kay Myar, is helping others in the village He said: ‘The training she’s received has benefitted the village. She shares what she learns with me too; matters around hygiene and cleanliness.’
Photo: Christian Aid/KAUNG HTET
This event showcased two coastal integrated population, health, and environment (PHE) programs that address interconnected marine management and human health issues. Fatou Janha discussed how TRY Oysters has successfully empowered women oyster harvesters in Gambia by raising their standard of living, encouraging sustainable production methods, and providing health and family planning services. Vik Mohan discussed how Blue Ventures has successfully engaged women octopi fishers in Madagascar with conservation initiatives while also providing sexual and reproductive health services. He also touched on the role that the program’s PHE infrastructure plays in responding to natural disasters. Finally, Kame Westerman highlighted the role of women in natural resource management.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/oysters-octopus-and-resilience
Vanuatu Family Health Association team members carry supplies to the mobile clinic during the Tropical Cyclone Harold humanitarian response in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
Ms. Devi started having pregnancy related complication during the COVID lockdown and had difficulty accessing health care facilities. Through the WeCare initiative ambulance referral service , she was able to reach a hospital in time.
A father and baby wait to receive free healthcare during the Tropical Cyclone Harold humanitarian response in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
A father and daughter wait to receive free healthcare during the Tropical Cyclone Harold humanitarian response in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
Randy Vusqual, Youth Volunteer with Vanuatu Family Health Association, sets up a banner during the Tropical Cyclone Harold humanitarian response in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
Vanuatu Family Health Association Youth Volunteers spent two months in South and Central Pentecost, Vanuatu supporting the Tropical Cyclone Harold humanitarian response. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
Syvlie Barang meets with a midwife during the Tropical Cyclone Harold humanitarian response in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
This event showcased two coastal integrated population, health, and environment (PHE) programs that address interconnected marine management and human health issues. Fatou Janha discussed how TRY Oysters has successfully empowered women oyster harvesters in Gambia by raising their standard of living, encouraging sustainable production methods, and providing health and family planning services. Vik Mohan discussed how Blue Ventures has successfully engaged women octopi fishers in Madagascar with conservation initiatives while also providing sexual and reproductive health services. He also touched on the role that the program’s PHE infrastructure plays in responding to natural disasters. Finally, Kame Westerman highlighted the role of women in natural resource management.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/oysters-octopus-and-resilience
On April 17, 2018, the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) celebrated its 2018 Annual Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. IWHC recognized the work of renowned human rights champion Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who received the IWHC Visionary Leadership Award; and Kenyan activist Monica Oguttu, Executive Director of the Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET), who received the Joan B. Dunlop Award.
Pictured: Marlene Hess.
Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for IWHC
On April 17, 2018, the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) celebrated its 2018 Annual Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. IWHC recognized the work of renowned human rights champion Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who received the IWHC Visionary Leadership Award; and Kenyan activist Monica Oguttu, Executive Director of the Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET), who received the Joan B. Dunlop Award.
Pictured: High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein (left) and Sarah Zeid (right).
Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for IWHC
Scarlett Hawkins, UNFPA Gender-Based Violence Programme Support Officer, sits with a woman from Central Pentecost as she waits to receive free sexual and reproductive health services from Vanuatu Family Health Association. During the humanitarian response to Tropical Cyclone Harold in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
A father and baby wait to receive free healthcare during the Tropical Cyclone Harold humanitarian response in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
A young man, seated in a hammock, indicated that he has two children in a village outside of Kampong Speu, Cambodia.
PSI (Population Services International) is working in this area to provide counselling and access to birth control to women as part of their reproductive health program.
PSI is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that harnesses the vitality of the private sector to address the health problems of low-income and vulnerable populations in more than 60 developing countries. With programs in malaria, reproductive health, child survival, HIV and tuberculosis, PSI promotes products, services and healthy behavior that enable low-income and vulnerable people to lead healthier lives. Products and services are sold at subsidized prices rather than given away in order to motivate commercial sector involvement.
Kampong Speu, Cambodia. November 2008.
Chariet Bule received free healthcare during the Tropical Cyclone Harold humanitarian response in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
Community members from Central Pentecost wait to receive free healthcare during the Tropical Cyclone Harold humanitarian response in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
Community members wait to receive free healthcare during the Tropical Cyclone Harold humanitarian response in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
A Vanuatu Family Health Association provides a Dignity Kit to a mother in Pentecost, Vanuatu. During the humanitarian response to Tropical Cyclone Harold in Vanuatu, UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
In 1996 Didu Lereeh (34) and his wife Daw Kay Myar (35) were forced by the military from their home and had to abandoning their livestock and farm land. Pictured here, they tend to their piece of land. Daw Kay Myar says, 'We farm a little piece of land. There’s just enough to feed us…We have no savings. Some people who don’t earn enough also work as daily laborers. It is hard.’
Photo: Christian Aid/KAUNG HTET
This event showcased two coastal integrated population, health, and environment (PHE) programs that address interconnected marine management and human health issues. Fatou Janha discussed how TRY Oysters has successfully empowered women oyster harvesters in Gambia by raising their standard of living, encouraging sustainable production methods, and providing health and family planning services. Vik Mohan discussed how Blue Ventures has successfully engaged women octopi fishers in Madagascar with conservation initiatives while also providing sexual and reproductive health services. He also touched on the role that the program’s PHE infrastructure plays in responding to natural disasters. Finally, Kame Westerman highlighted the role of women in natural resource management.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/oysters-octopus-and-resilience
Tinotenda lives in Hopley, a suburb of Harare where the Women Advocacy Project (WAP) works. She married at age 17, after discovering that she was pregnant. “My boyfriend was the one who told me that I was pregnant, I didn’t know about those things then,” Tinotenda told WAP. When her father learned of the pregnancy, he threw her out of the house.
Now at age 37, Tinotenda has 5 children. Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate is currently over 80% and like many of the women WAP works with, she is not working. “Before I got pregnant, I just wanted to go to school, support my family and my mother. Now I want to work so I can send my children to school. I don’t want them to lack knowledge.”
Photo by Alex Kotowski, 2018 Peace Fellow, The Advocacy Project
June 18, 2018 – Hopley, Zimbabwe
Names have been changed
This event showcased two coastal integrated population, health, and environment (PHE) programs that address interconnected marine management and human health issues. Fatou Janha discussed how TRY Oysters has successfully empowered women oyster harvesters in Gambia by raising their standard of living, encouraging sustainable production methods, and providing health and family planning services. Vik Mohan discussed how Blue Ventures has successfully engaged women octopi fishers in Madagascar with conservation initiatives while also providing sexual and reproductive health services. He also touched on the role that the program’s PHE infrastructure plays in responding to natural disasters. Finally, Kame Westerman highlighted the role of women in natural resource management.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/oysters-octopus-and-resilience
14 April 2009 - N'Djamena, Chad - UN Volunteer Celestine Ravelondranzana, Reproductive Health/HIV Emergency Specialist, Focal Point UNFPA talks to patient Alphonsine Denerambadje, 23 years old, who is recovering from surgery (hysterecectomy) at the Hôpital de la Liberté in N'Djamena.
Scarlett Hawkins, UNFPA Gender-Based Violence Programme Support Officer, sits with Vanuatu Family Health Association Humanitarian Team Lead, Claude Arukesa, during the humanitarian response to Tropical Cyclone Harold in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
Traditional birth attendant (TBA) Daw Kay Myar (35) shows us a piece of sharpened bamboo, traditionally used to cut the umbilical cord which was then tied with any old piece of cloth. For the pain, Turmeric was used as an antiseptic. Now thanks to training and support from a Christian Aid partner, they have the skills and equipment to make a real difference.
Photo: Christian Aid/KAUNG HTET
Community members from Central Pentecost wait to receive free healthcare during the Tropical Cyclone Harold humanitarian response in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
This event showcased two coastal integrated population, health, and environment (PHE) programs that address interconnected marine management and human health issues. Fatou Janha discussed how TRY Oysters has successfully empowered women oyster harvesters in Gambia by raising their standard of living, encouraging sustainable production methods, and providing health and family planning services. Vik Mohan discussed how Blue Ventures has successfully engaged women octopi fishers in Madagascar with conservation initiatives while also providing sexual and reproductive health services. He also touched on the role that the program’s PHE infrastructure plays in responding to natural disasters. Finally, Kame Westerman highlighted the role of women in natural resource management.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/oysters-octopus-and-resilience
Vanuatu Family Health Association Humanitarian Team Lead, Claude Arukesa, watches over a sleeping baby as its mother receives free care during the Tropical Cyclone Harold humanitarian response in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
Increasing access to voluntary family planning services is key to the success of Millennium Development Goal 5, which calls for reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health services. With renewed country interests and commitments, now is a crucial moment to ensure this important, cost-effective intervention is part of a scaled up global maternal health response. Maureen Norton, senior technical advisor with USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health; Jessica Bowers, portfolio director for Every Mother Counts; Jonathon Cooper, country director of Marie Stopes Uganda; Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, senior director of CARE’s Health Equity Unit; and Sarah Craven, chief of UNFPA’s Washington Office spoke at the Wilson Center on July 31 about achieving this goal.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-role-family-planning-impro...
People in South Pentecost wash their hands as they wait to receive free sexual and reproductive health services from Vanuatu Family Health Association. During the humanitarian response to Tropical Cyclone Harold in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.
Scarlett Hawkins, UNFPA Gender-Based Violence Programme Support Officer, sits with women from Central Pentecost as they wait to receive free sexual and reproductive health services from Vanuatu Family Health Association. During the humanitarian response to Tropical Cyclone Harold in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces.