Upcoming Events
PAC Consortium Semi-Annual Meeting
Monday, May 27, 2013, 8:00am-12:00pm MYT
Women Deliver 2013 Conference
Mandarin Oriental Hotel
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The PAC Consortium is pleased to join in the mission of Women Deliver and host a meeting on May 27, 2013. The meeting will be followed by a complimentary PAC/CAC networking lunch.
During the PAC Consortium meeting the Steering Committee will articulate the role of the PAC Consortium within the reproductive health field and the evidence-base and leadership generated by the Consortium around misoprostol for PAC, youth-friendly PAC, postabortion family planning, and stigma reduction. Key international stakeholders will join the PAC Consortium for this meeting to make technical recommendations for improving access to and quality of PAC services worldwide based on lessons learned to overcome existing challenges. Together we will look beyond the MDGs and plan for greater investment in improving access to PAC services and also addressing the family planning component of the five essential elements of PAC model.
More information about the meeting will be posted on the PAC Consortium website and the Women Deliver website. To receive email updates from the Consortium, email info@pac-consortium.org
In Our Hands: Successful strategies to prioritize essential maternal health supplies
Monday, May 27, 2013, 9:30am-12:00pm MYT
Women Deliver 2013 Conference
Rooms 403 & 404
Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia
The Maternal Health Supplies Working Group and the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition’s (RHSC) Maternal Health Supplies Caucus invite you to an interactive and open forum to network, strategize and exchange ideas for elevating maternal health supplies onto leading national and international health agendas. More than 15 global and national advocates and program implementers will share successful advocacy case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America in the Ideas Exchange.
Panelists include:
- Julia Bunting, International Planned Parenthood Federation
- Carolyn Hart, John Snow, Inc.
- Moses Muwonge, RHSC - Resource Mobilization and Awareness Working Group
- Olanike Adedeji, United Nations Population Fund, Nigeria
RSVP to maternalhealthsupplies@path.org by May 24th, 2013.
Women Deliver 2013 Conference
May 28-30, 2013
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
At Women Deliver 2013, there will be more than 5,000 participants from Ministries of Health, Finance and Development Cooperation, Parliaments, leading civil society organizations, global companies, media and more. More than 120 concurrent sessions, high-level plenaries, skills-building workshops, and ministerial and parliamentarian forums will inspire and inform the collective work of all participants to build a better world for girls and women.
VSI will be exhibiting (Booth #181) at the conference and presenting on the following panels:
MA 2.0: What Does the “New” Medical Abortion Look Like?
Tuesday, 28 May, 2:45—4:15pm MYT*, Room 405
Nuriye Hodoglugil, VSI Associate Medical Director
Life-Saving Commodities for Women
Wednesday, 29 May, 11:00—1:00pm MYT*, Room 306
Richard Lowe, VSI Senior Technical Advisor
Post-Abortion Care: Strategies for
Expanding Access to Life-Saving Care
Thursday,
30 May, 2:30—3:30pm MYT*, Conference Hall 1
Evangeline Dushimeyezu, VSI Country Coordinator, Rwanda
Post-Abortion
Family Planning
Thursday, 30 May, 2:30—3:30pm MYT*, Room 409
Nuriye Hodoglugil, VSI Associate Medical Director
For more information, click here.
*Times listed are Kuala Lumpur local time (MYT) and not GMT as indicated previously.
