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5073.0: Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | ||||
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| This session focuses on strategies to increase access to FP/RH services in developing countries. The panel presents evidence from Romania, Peru, Egypt, and Indonesia. One presentation describes how local public-private partnerships in Romania increased equity to access FP/RH services by pooling resources across agencies, increasing providers’ capacity to communicate, tailoring services to client preferences, developing culturally appropriate inter-personal communication and promoting policy change. A second presentation includes an analysis to understand how to improve access to FP among the rural poor in Peru and description of three pro-poor strategies that resulted. A paper on Egypt addresses the process of promoting contraceptive security in Egypt at started in 2003 in response to USAID’s intention to phase out contraceptive support. A fourth paper asks if the strategy of increasing the private sector really lowers dependency on donors. The presentation focuses on the need to distinguish between the commercial and non-commercial providers that make up the private sector. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: • Apply the process of pooling resources across health and social sectors. • Articulate a strategy for policy change at local level to reduce barriers to accessing health services, including developing Local Partnerships. • To share lessons about policy interventions at local, regional and central levels of government to improve access to FP among the poor. • Mobilze political support and resources for meeting contraceptive security goal and apply an evidence-based and multisectoral process of strategic planning and policymaking. • Articulate the steps needed to determine whether a provider is covering direct costs. • Describe the information needed to determine whether a provider is commercial or not commercial and articulate why this is important. | ||||
| Moderator(s): | Tim Williams | |||
| 8:30 AM |  | Measuring the performance of family planning supply chains in developing countries Ali Karim, PhD, Briton Beize, MPH, Jaya Chimnani, MPH, Elizabeth Bunde | ||
| 8:45 AM | | How big is the commercial sector for FP in Indonesia? Barbara Janowitz, PhD, Conrad Otterness, MPH | ||
| 9:00 AM | | Policies and Politics of mobilizing resources for contraceptive security in Egypt Suneeta Sharma, PhD, MHA, Carol Shepherd, ScD, MS | ||
| 9:15 AM | | Making policies work for the Poor in Peru Elaine P. Menotti, MPH, Suneeta Sharma, PhD, MHA | ||
| 9:30 AM | | Tackling urban poor inequalities in access to FP/RH services Merce M. Gasco, MD, Diane Hedgecock, MPH | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health | |||
| Endorsed by: | HIV/AIDS; International Health | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA