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CONFERENCE
4th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights
Hyderabad, India, 29–31 October 2007

The 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights was held  29–31 October 2007 in Hyderabad, India (www.4apcrsh.org). The theme of the conference was "Exploring New Frontiers in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights." More than 1,200 delegates attended the conference, which provided a platform for people with diverse perspectives, expertise, and experiences to exchange ideas, discuss and debate issues of concern, and learn from each other about sexual and reproductive health and rights, with specific reference to the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD 1994).

Saroj Pachauri, Population Council South and East Asia regional director, was the chair of the conference's scientific committee. The Council had a significant presence at the event; several colleagues presented their work and chaired or rapporteured sessions. A publications booth showcasing the Council’s cutting-edge work on reproductive health; poverty, gender, and youth; and HIV and AIDS also was set up.

The Council's Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS) program organized two special events at the conference. The first was a symposium entitled "Addressing Unmet Reproductive Health Needs of Young Women in the Asia and Near East Region." Council researchers shared study findings on how to help women achieve optimal birth-spacing intervals; how to involve men in their wives’ antenatal and postpartum care; and how a community-based "kangaroo mother care" program prevents neonatal and infant mortality.

The second was a satellite session entitled "Translating Research Into Action: Experience of Scaling Up Best Practices in South Asia." The session discussed successful scale-up models by FRONTIERS colleagues on emergency contraception, systematic screening, and integrating an adolescent training curriculum in youth training centers in national programs of Bangladesh and India.

More on the conference available here.

Addressing Unmet Reproductive Health Needs of Young Women
in the Asia and Near East Region
29 October 2007
Chair: Ian Askew, director, FRONTIERS, Population Council, Kenya
Rapporteur: Sohini Roychowdhury, regional communications officer, FRONTIERS, Population Council, India

Presentations

  • "Male involvement in maternity care in India: OR and scaling up experiences" (PDF)
    Presenter: M.E. Khan, regional associate director, FRONTIERS, Population Council, India
  • "Community-based kangaroo mother care to prevent neonatal and infant mortality" (PDF)
    Presenter: Ubaidur Rob, program associate, Population Council, Bangladesh
  • "Determining effective and replicable communication-based mechanism for improving young couples’ access to and utilization of RH information and services in Nepal" (PDF)
    Presenter: Jyotsna Tamang, CREHPA, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • "Promoting postpartum contraception: Possible opportunities" (PDF)
    Presenter: Mary Philip Sebastian, program officer, FRONTIERS, Population Council, India
  • "Helping Egyptian women achieve healthier birth spacing intervals: Testing an intervention for low-parity women" (PDF)
    Presenter: Nahla Abdel-Tawab, program associate, FRONTIERS, Population Council, Egypt

Translating Research Into Action: Experience of Scaling Up
Best Practices in South Asia
30 October 2007
Chair: Monique Mosolf, health officer, Office of Population, Health, and Nutrition, USAID India
Rapporteur: Sitanshu Kar, program officer, FRONTIERS, Population Council, New Delhi

Presentations

  • "Introducing and scaling up EC in the national family planning program: Lessons learned from Bangladesh" (PDF)
    Presenter: Sharif Mohammed Ismail Hossain, senior program officer, FRONTIERS, Population Council, Bangladesh
  • "Scaling up of systematic screening procedure in Gujarat and Uttaranchal"
    Presenter: M.E. Khan, regional associate director, FRONTIERS, Population Council, India
  • "Scaling up a reproductive health curriculum in youth training centres in Bangladesh"
    Presenter: Ismat Bhuiya, senior program officer, FRONTIERS, Population Council, Bangladesh
  • "Scaling up a quality assurance programme in Gujarat and six other states in India"
    Presenter: Anurag Mishra, program officer, FRONTIERS, Population Council, India

For more information contact:
Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS)
Population Council
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 280
Washington, DC 20008 USA
Telephone: +1 202 237 9400
Facsimile: +1 202 237 8410
E-mail: frontiers@popcouncil.org


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10 December 2007