Focus Areas
Working towards global reproductive choice; autonomy and empowerment; and gender equality.
Commitment Makers
Creating a future for women and girls with the freedom and ability to lead healthy lives.
ForoLAC, part of the Reproductive Supply Health Coalition (RSHC), has striven to increase reproductive health commodity security in the Latin American and the Caribbean region for 11 years.
Over the past several years, and specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is an understatement to say there have been shifts in our society. The pandemic has magnified the effects of other ongoing crises as climate change, natural disasters, war, and famine have had outsized impacts on supply chains and already strained health systems. Advocates have increased their calls to action around how to continue family planning services in crisis settings and how to reach people who have been forced to leave their homes due to the effects of climate change.
Over the past two years, the tenuous human rights environment in Myanmar has greatly deteriorated with the COVID-19 pandemic worsening inequalities and tensions between cultural groups. With the continued tension between Myanmar's military and ethnic armed groups, providing access to sexual and reproductive health is a significant challenge. The combination of the pandemic and the uncertain political situation exacerbates the sexual and reproductive health needs of people in Myanmar, as they face compounded effects of an unmet need for family planning.
In 2021, the reality of the global health landscape has shifted because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has showcased the fragility, interconnectedness, and inequality of global health architecture.
Recognizing the importance of evaluating adolescent- and youth-focused data, the FP2030 Performance Monitoring and Evidence Working Group, a group of family planning measurement experts, formalized annual reporting of supplemental indicators on adolescents and youths.
The family planning and immunization HIP brief recommends that clinics and health care systems implement an integrated model of care, as evidence suggests that this model has high levels of acceptability among clients and service providers alike and that it does not have a negative effect on the uptake of immunizations.
If you are a woman in a remote village in Bilaspur, in the largely rural state of Chhattisgarh, chances are you are far removed from a world full of modern options in contraception that allow you to space out babies. You are also taught early in life not to say no and to accept the decisions taken on your behalf — even if they are about your own health.
When the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released the findings of the fifth National Family Health Survey (NFHS), documenting government data on health and family welfare issues, there were a flurry of chest-thumping declarations. Many in the media reported that India’s population had “stabilised” and some even claimed that it had begun “declining”.
