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Results from HIV prevention project in the Amazon region of Bolivia to be presented at AIDS Conference
Results and lessons learned from the HIV prevention project in the Amazon region of Bolivia will be shared at the XVII International AIDS Conference beginning August 3 in Mexico City. Two poster presentations will offer detailed information on this initiative underway in Bolivia since 2006. FCI also will present on Cultural Factors in Prevention of HIV in Indigenous Women in Ecuador. View the complete schedule here:
Poster Presentation: Gender and Cross-cultural Aspects of Sexual and Reproductive Health
(SRH) in Bolivian Indigenous Populations
Alexia Escobar Vasquez, FCI Bolivia
Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Time: 12:30 to 14:30
Location: Poster Exhibition, Hall D
Poster Presentation: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices relative to STIs, HIV, and AIDS in five indigenous groups of the Bolivian Amazon
Alexia Escobar Vasquez, FCI Bolivia
Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Time: 12:30 to 14:30
Location: Poster Exhibition, Hall D
Oral presentation in an abstract driven session: Cultural Factors in Prevention of HIV in Indigenous Women in Ecuador
Maritza Segura Villalva, FCI Ecuador
Session Title: Indigenous people: Rights, vulnerability, and responses
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Session Room 8
Poster Presentation: Strategic partnerships to increase access to HIV prevention and diagnosis in 30 Amazonian indigenous communities of Bolivia
Pilar Montalvo, FCI Bolivia
Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008
Time: 12:30 to 14:30
Location: Poster Exhibition, Hall D
For more information on FCI's work on STI and HIV prevention with vulnerable populations in Latin America, click here.
Countdown to 2015: World not on track to meet maternal health goals
 On April 17th, FCI’s President, Ann Starrs addressed parliamentarians and experts gathered in Cape Town to discuss and debate progress – or lack of progress - towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, which address newborn, child, and maternal health. Ms. Starrs is part of a working group that released new data in special issue of the Lancet, reporting that in 56 of the 68 countries, maternal mortality rates remained high or very high. These data suggest that many countries are not on track to reach MDG 5, which calls for improving women’s health by cutting maternal deaths by three-quarters. “We know what works to reduce maternal deaths,” said Ms. Starrs. “Basic improvements in reproductive health services, including family planning, as well as skilled care for all deliveries and emergency obstetric care for those women who have complications, are effective ways to prevent these unnecessary deaths.” Click here to read the article of the Lancet.
FCI to Chair PAC Consortium
Unsafe abortion kills an estimated 68,000 women each year. Postabortion care is a strategy to reduce the impact of unsafe abortion by treating abortion complications and providing women with counseling and family planning methods to avoid another unwanted pregnancy. The PAC Consortium brings together a number of groups working on PAC, providing guidance and leadership on technical and policy issues around PAC. As the first non-USAID-funded NGO to lead the consortium, FCI will serve in its new position for two years. Click here to read about FCI’s partnerships.
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FCI featured on the Women's E-News
FCI’s advocacy efforts to reduce maternal mortality are featured in the article “Global Summit to Hear Billions Needed for Moms” published by the Women’s E-News web site. Click here to read.
Rethinking Maternal Health
On June 2008, Ann Starrs moderated the Council on Foreign Relations and Global Health Council’s panel on maternal health. Leading experts and high-level policymakers debated strategies to prevent women from dying of pregnancy-related causes. The transcript of the panel is available here.
FCI Bolivia Hosts Women’s Global Roundtable
On June 2008, Alexia Escobar of FCI Bolivia hosted the Women’s Global Roundtable, a live weekly conference call and web cast. This series of calls features women from around the world whose lives have been touched by the work of UNIFEM’s Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women. The call will focus on FCI’s work to address gender-based violence in remote rural indigenous communities in Bolivia and Ecuador. Click here to read more about FCI's work in Bolivia.
FCI at the IV Latin American Conference on SRHR in Uruguay
In April 2008, Cristina Puig of FCI was an opening speaker at the “IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Salud y Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos” (4th Latin American Conference on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) held in Uruguay. The goal of the conference was to emphasize the importance of health professional‘s responsibility in achieving the MDGs by promoting and supporting women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the region. Click here to read more about our programs in Latin America.
Addressing the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Young People in Mali
FCI/Mali’s work with young people in the informal sector (domestic workers, street vendors, apprentices and others) was featured in “Exchange on HIV/AIDS, sexuality and gender,” a publication of the Netherlands’ Royal Tropical Institute and SafAIDS. Young workers in Mali are at high risk of HIV, and FCI has been working with local partners to train and support peer educators to provide knowledge, skills, and supplies (including condoms) to young people, and to help bridge them to health care facilities.
79% of our revenue goes to programmatic expenses, well above the recommended average.
On principle and by preference, we are independent and thus able to address all aspects of women’s reproductive health, and work where others cannot.
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