Online Program

4123.1
Reproductive health & family planning

Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Oral
This session will discuss the role of family planning in improving the health status of populations at local, state and country levels and the challenges women face wregard to access to contraception
Session Objectives: Discuss the importance of family planning in promoting women's health
Moderator:

10:30am
Local understandings of reproductive health and family planning in Rwanda's southern kayonza district   
Didi Bertrand Farmer, MA, Fidele Ngabo, Paulin Basinga, MD, PhD, Grace Ryan, BA, Francois Kamali, Nurse, Elias Ngizwenayo, Jacklyn St. Fleur, MD, Leslie Berman, MPH, Paul Farmer, MD, PhD and Michael L. Rich, MPH, MD
10:45am
Family planning a powerful tool for reducing maternal death   
Adelaide de Carvalho, Isilda Neves, Jhony Juarez, MD, MPH, Margarita Gurdian, Anaisia de Melo Octavio and Samson Ngonyani
11:00am
Contraceptive access in the Philippines: The influence of decreased public funding   
Elizabeth Uy-Smith, MD, MPH, Kevin Grumbach, MD, Peter Bacchetti, PhD and Ushma Upadhyay, PhD, MPH

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Medical Care, Maternal and Child Health, Population, Reproductive and Sexual Health, Socialist Caucus, Women's Caucus, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

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