141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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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:
Jean Capps

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
  
11:15am
Addressing stigma through social networks to reduce unmet need for family planning: A conceptual framework   
Heather Buesseler, MPH and Rebecka Lundgren, MPH
     
11:30am
Youth leading youth: Reaching rural and out of school youth with sexual and reproductive health education   
Eva Burgos, BA, Josie Ramos, MA and Esther Tahrir, 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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