Topic » Reproductive Health Supplies
Around the world, more than 215 million women want to prevent pregnancy but need contraception. Often, these women must travel far from their communities to reach a health facility, only to return home empty-handed due to stock-outs. When women seeking family planning services are turned away, they are unable to protect themselves from unintended pregnancies and sexually-transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS.
Despite an increased demand for reproductive health supplies, donor support is fading, and many national governments have not prioritized ensuring access. Limited human resources, weak transportation and outdated inventory systems all lead to major delays in delivery to local facilities, sometimes causing supplies to sit in storage while clinics experience severe shortages.
PAI has been a leader on the issue of reproductive health supplies advocacy, co-sponsoring a 2001 meeting in Istanbul that brought together government representatives from donor and developing countries to seek solutions to the supply crisis. PAI continues to work to increase financial and political support for reproductive health supplies and coordinate national, regional, and global advocacy.
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After Three Days in Kampala, a Strategic Plan is Born
It’s the end of our third and final day at the Eastern Africa Reproductive Health Network’s (EARHN) Annual Coordination Meeting and I’m proud to report that the delegates have come to a general consensus on a draft strategic plan. There … Continue reading
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Strategic Planning In Kampala
I’m excited to be reporting back from Kampala, Uganda, where a team from PAI is participating in the Eastern Africa Reproductive Health Network’s (EARHN) Annual Coordination meeting. This unique network consists of six member states (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda … Continue reading
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Video Blog from Ethiopia
On a trip to Ethiopia, Amy Coen, President/CEO of Population Action International, had the opportunity to meet Dr. Bogaletch Gebra – affectionately called “Boge” — who is spearheading a national campaign to end the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). … Continue reading
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Let’s Talk About Sex
Tomorrow, on World AIDS Day, let’s talk about sex. 80% of new HIV infections are sexually transmitted; let’s stop pretending that sex isn’t happening and start making it safer. This World AIDS Day—and every day after—we need to talk openly … Continue reading
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A Remedy for PEPFAR’s Flaws: Comprehensive HIV Prevention
Question: What do you do with a $100 million U.S. government program that isn’t working? The answer; you fix it. Abstinence and be-faithful programs for youth in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) are not meeting the needs … Continue reading
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Keeping Reproductive Health Supplies on an Expanding Agenda
Last week, experts from around the globe traveled to Washington to discuss an issue critical to the health of millions around the world—access to reproductive health supplies, notably contraceptives and condoms. At the invitation of USAID, the Reproductive Health … Continue reading
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A Measure of Survival: Where are Women at Highest Reproductive Risk?
Over half a million women worldwide die every year in pregnancy or childbirth—largely from preventable causes. In the developing world, pregnancy remains the leading killer of women in their reproductive years. And for young girls between the age of … Continue reading
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A Measure of Survival – Calculating Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Risk
Pregnancy and childbirth are deadly to more than half a million women worldwide every year—a fact that is unacceptable, but not unavoidable. These women are typically poor, uneducated and living in rural areas or urban slums. Despite 20 years of … Continue reading
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A Measure of Survival
Pregnancy and childbirth are deadly to more than half a million women worldwide every year—a fact that is unacceptable, but not unavoidable. Despite twenty years of campaigning to improve their sexual and reproductive health, the risk of dying in pregnancy … Continue reading
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Heed the Alarm: Scale up HIV Prevention
“For every person who began antiretroviral therapy in 2006, six people were newly infected,” according to a new report from the Global HIV Prevention Working Group.Without a major scale-up of HIV prevention programs, using existing prevention tools, 60 million more … Continue reading