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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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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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.
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.
Sonia Melten is interviewed 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 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.
photo by Lorena Espinoza Peña
May 6, 2009 in the Dominican Republic: protest against Congress' new legislation to severely restrict reproductive health access.
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.
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.
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. UNFPA Gender-Based Violence Programme Support Officer, Scarlett Hawkins, joined the Vanuatu Family Health Association team during the outreach in Central Pentecost.
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.
People in South Pentecost 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.
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.
photo by Lorena Espinoza Peña
May 6, 2009 in the Dominican Republic: protest against Congress' new legislation to severely restrict reproductive health access.
Pre Moe (29) pictured here with her seven day old baby boy Lehreh says, ‘Traditional birth attendants make such a difference. I trust them. If not for them we could have lost our child.’ Pre Moe was duly referred to hospital for a Caesarean section after careful and expert examination by her TBA Daw Kay Myar.
Photo: Christian Aid/KAUNG HTET
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...
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
photo by Lorena Espinoza Peña
May 6, 2009 in the Dominican Republic: protest against Congress' new legislation to severely restrict reproductive health access.
Men need female condoms because great protection is for everyone.
I like female condoms because they are incredibly freeing.
Photo: PATH/Scott Brown.
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
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
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
Reproductivehealth Sensitization program about HIV AID through theaters performance inschools held.
By: Gu HamaadFarooqi
CHITRAL: A day long sensitization session was held at Alnasir community based schoolGaramchishma of Reproductive Health initiative with adolescents (RHIA) funded by Plan Pakistan Internationalorganized by Aga Khan Rural Support Program. Addressing to the session Syed Altaf Ali Shahsaid that RHIA working in different sectors regarding reproductive health andto create awareness among the masses especially students through these sessions. He said that main objective of theprogram is to promote better reproductive health of adolescent throughdifferent awareness sessions, workshops,theater performance because the adolescent cam play vital role in the socio-economic developmentof the country.
He said that theyhave 6 adolescent friendly centers (AFC)in which they create awareness among themasses on different topics like hepatitis , HIVAID, early marriage conflict,peer education, health and Hygiene, puberty change, child rights STI,s etc.
He said that alarge number of adult are still uneducated and other hand the young generationinvolve in different social evils due to no awareness about theseconflicts. So we sensitize the masses tosave their lives from these diseases and to involve them in creative andproductive activities.
Girls studentspresented theater performance on different issues like HIVAID, early marriageand male students performed on illiteracy issues. Students performedsophisticatedly to inscribe the message how stray young travelling through bigcities and involved in social evils causing for HIVAID and further more theyalso indulge innocent people especially women folk through marriage in this irreparabledisease.
Second grouppresented their drama on early marriage and its bad result and troublesaftermath.
Third groupperformed about illiteracy to prove importance of education. They presentedtheir theater that some youth achieved their high standard through educationand the remaining one who not get proper education were facing great troublesin their practical life.
Students,teachers and social workers in a large number participated in this infotainmentand informative sessions.
Some female andmale participants as well as studentstold this scribe that they learnt great lessons from these theater performanceabout social evils.
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...