Regional Meeting of Key Stakeholders from Africa and the Arab States
Preventing unsafe abortions, and decreasing morbidity and mortality caused by them can be one of the fastest and most effective ways for decreasing maternal mortality. To reach this goal, postabortion care should be available and accessible for all women (as called for in the ICPD Programme of Action, para 8.25) through primary health care and emergency obstetric care. Postabortion care also provides an entry point for family planning counselling and services and it should include, or at least be linked to family planning services.
To address this issue, a meeting of key stakeholders was organized by UNFPA ( Africa and Arab States Regional Offices and Technical Division) in collaboration with Gynuity, an international organization based in New York with substantial work in postabortion care. Its two main objectives: To bring together evidence and experience on postabortion care in improving the health of women, their families and communities; and to discuss how to make postabortion care more accessible to women and communities in the light of recent evidence on postabortion care.
Presentations
The Global Magnitude and Consequences of Unsafe Abortion
Susheela Singh, Guttmacher Institute
Programming for Unsafe Abortion in Sub Saharan Africa
Florence Oryem-Ebanyat, UNFPA East-Southern Africa Subregional Office
Situation of Abortion and PAC in Arab Countries
Maha Eladawy, UNFPA Arab States Regional Office
Pac with MVA: Many gains; Many challenges; Uncertain future
Joachim Osur, Ipas
Misoprostol: A Review of the International Evidence for Post Abortion Care
Beverly Winikoff, GynuityHealth Projects
How Misoprostol Treatment Changes the Paradigm on Postabortion Care
Rasha Dabash, Gynuity Health Projects
Increasing Access to Post Abortion Care: Integration of PAC into other Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
Kelly Culwell, IPPF
Challenges and opportunities in providing post abortion family planning services
Sally Saher, The Population Council
Linkages and partnerships in PAC: The role of FIGO
Anibal Faundes, FIGO
The Introduction and Scale-up of Postabortion Care: Burkina Faso
Thieba Blandine, Société Africaine de Gynecologie et d'Obstétrique (SAGO)
The Experience of Postabortion Care Introduction and Expansion in Egypt
Mohamed Cherine, El Galaa Teaching Hospital & Emad Darwish, Shatby Maternity University Hospital
L’Expérience Tunisienne et l’évolution des services de l’avortement et PF depuis 1965
Mongia Ben Attia, Office Nationale de la Famille et de la Population
Postabortion Care Services: Successes, Challenges and Lessons Learned
The case of Uganda
Miriam Sentongo, MoH
The case of Senegal
El Hadj Ousseynou Faye, Reproductive Health Division
The case of Zambia
Mubiana Inambao, Central Hospital, MoH
The case of Egypt
Magdy Khaled, UNFPA Country Office
The case of Morocco
Hassan Alami, CHU Rabat
The case of Benin
Marcelle Totchenou, MoH
Scaling up Postabortion Care: National Strategies and Guidelines
Nuriye Ortayli, UNFPA Technical Division
Procurement of RH Commodities
Kabir Ahmed, UNFPA Technical Division
Programmatic guidance, training and expansion of services
Ayisha Diop, Gynuity Health Projects
