 |
Powered by FHI 360 & the Family Planning Community
|
|
Featured Coverage
Top Coverage
FP2020 Launches First Progress Report
"Partnership in Action" details successes and progress made since the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning, highlighting commitments, accountability, innovation, collaboration and ways to measure FP2020 progress.
The FP2020 community held a lively online discussion on successes and progress of FP2020 commitments.
|
 |
|
Emerging Conversations
|
|
|
Brief
The Challenge Ahead: Initiating a Demographic Dividend
\\ PRB, USAID, IDEA
Today’s large youth populations hold great potential to catalyze social and economic development and reduce inequality and poverty, but only when governments make the right investments to transform this opportunity into reality.
|
Huffington Post
Family Planning and HIV: New Evidence That Integration Works
Huffington Post \\ By Ward Cates & Rose Wilcher, FHI 360
At this week's International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), we are examining the latest evidence on integrating family planning and HIV service delivery. It shows that stronger linkages between family planning and HIV programs are critical to helping us realize ambitious goals for global health.
|
Blog
Youth survey reveals challenges to independent choices on sexual health
Key Correspondents Team \\ by Lucy Maroncha
Incorporating young people in sexual and reproductive health matters, particularly those in marginalized groups and those affected by HIV, is an issue under the spotlight this week at a global conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
|
|
Top Tweets from #ICFPLive
Crowdsourced Coverage
Tweet your quotes, photos, videos and blogs using #ICFPLive to contribute to the coverage.
|
 |
 |
|
ICFP Youth 2013 @FPYouth2013
Strategies to involve Men in #FP: @MenCareGlobal:Create space & opportunities 4 men & their partners- give factual info. #ICFPLive #ICFP2013
|
 |
|
Pathfinder Int. @PathfinderInt
Business as usual is not enough. We cannot be complacent. We have to go outside our comfort zone. -@TheoSowa of @Awf01 #ICFPlive
|
 |
|
Wellbeing Foundation @wellbeingafrica
We want hope, dignity, joy, and a long future for all women @melindagates: #FamilyPlanning #ICFPLive"
|
|
|
 |
Videos to Inspire
|
|
|
The Importance of Involving Youth in Family Planning
Isaiah Olowabi, HACEY Health Initiative
Isaiah Olowabi is the program director for HACEY's Health Initiative in Nigeria. He speaks about the importance of engaging youth in dialogue and policy around family planning. Isaiah is a Youth Advocate at the conference sponsored by the Gates Institute.
|
A Turning Point Inspired by Youth Involvement
Kate Gilmore, UNFPA
Kate Gilmore, Deputy Executive Director, UNFPA, discusses how we are at a turning point in the family planning movement because of the involvement of youth in SRH discussions and policy development.
|
|
#ICFPYouth Voices
|
|
|
 |
|
Crowdblog: Day Two of the ICFP and the Energy around Youth is Electric
// by Interagency Youth Working Group (IYWG)
With approximately 300 young people in attendance, the energy around youth sexual and reproductive health on day two of ICFP continues to be electric.
|
|
|
CURATED SOCIAL MEDIA COVERAGE
Crowdblog: Wednesday Plenary - Achieving Equity through Women in Leadership
by FHI 360
As more women assume leadership roles within their communities, organizations, nations and beyond, strides are made towards greater gender equality among the decision-makers and influential leaders of the world.
|
 |
girls' globe reporting
Blog Post: Views on Full Access to Family Planning
by Elisabeth Epstein
Elisabeth Epstein asks ICPF participants what Full Access to contraceptives means to them. #FullAccess is...
Latin America's Contraception Crisis
by Farahnaz Mohammed
Early this year in El Salvador, the case of a 22 year old women named Beatriz caught international attention.
Achieving Equity Through Women in Leadership - A Social Media Update
by Julia Wiklander
A recap of Wednesday mornings plenary session titled, "Achieving Equity through Women in Leadership"
|
 |
Interactive + Video
Family Planning Leads to Health, Education & Income
// by FHI 360
An integrated approach to family planning is key to human development. Through innovation, capacity building and empowerment, we can achieve the FP2020 goal of providing 120 million women with access to contraceptives.
|
 |
Blog + Video
Africa: Helping Mothers to Deliver Healthy Children Safely
allAfrica.com // by Liya Kebede, Founder the Liya Kebede Foundation
It is disturbing to know that there are still millions of mothers who do not have access to the basic essentials for delivering a child, including light, clean equipment, and trained medical staff.
Now is the Time to Increase Investments in Mothers & Family Planning.
Liya Kebede, Ethiopian-born model, clothing designer and actress, talks about the overlooked promise of postpartum family planning.
|
 |
Letter to the Editor
Connected Health Workers Key to Improved Health
Addis Fortune // by Pape Gaye, President and CEO, Intrahealth International
As reproductive health policymakers, advocates and practitioners are gathering at the African Union in Ethiopia, some of us, who would like to clone ourselves to be there with you – and feel like we are there in spirit – are gathered in Brazil for the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health.
|
 |
Video perspective
The Importance of Women Leaders in Family Planning
by Ellen Starbird, Director, Office of Population and Reproductive Health, USAID
Ellen Starbird discusses how women leaders in family planning can be inspiring and powerful forces.
|
|
Tweet of the Day
|
Infographic of the Day
|
|
|
