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.
The global health community reaffirms its commitment to ensuring rights-based, clientcentered SRH services, including the full range of available contraceptive methods, HIV/STI prevention, testing, and treatment, and cervical cancer services during and after COVID-19.
The WHO FP Accelerator project continues to support partners and ministries of health (MoH) to accelerate quality and rights-based family planning (FP) services within the broader frameworks of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the WHO 13th Global Programme of Work (GPW13).
Working as a Black woman in international development is complicated. Working in family planning is even more complicated—because what is more politicized than sex? And whose bodies have been more politicized, sexualized and traumatized than those of Black and Brown women? It’s no wonder then, that these women have led the movement to reframe our understanding of health, wealth, and development and have rejected power dynamics that would trivialize, dehumanize — silo — us. Transitioning the FP2020 Secretariat into the partnership beyond 2020 requires breaking down those silos.
The services related to family planning and reproductive health are being declared ‘essential services’ so that they are not discontinued in any situation arising out of pandemic or natural disaster.
As a global organisation representing 143 Midwifery Associations and advocating on behalf of over one million midwives worldwide, the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) calls on all governments to uphold the human rights of all women and their families to quality and respectful midwifery care.
COVID-19 is demonstrating the impact of epidemics on the continuity of care provision, particularly for FP/RH. This is why, in addition to the measures taken to fight COVID-19, we realized the importance of carrying out parallel actions that guarantee the availability and continuity of essential RMNCAH services.
Amid an inconsistent designation of “essential” services, overburdened health facilities, lockdowns, supply chain interruptions, and travel restrictions, without decisive action, provision of voluntary family planning will inevitably decline, with potentially devastating effects.
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is poised to cause infection and death in millions of people across the globe at a stunning pace.
Senior Inter faith leaders from Mityana have committed to work with the district local government leaders to truck the integrated family planning funds up to the intended user.
