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New United Nations Initiative to Boost Family Planning Services for Countries in Transition
un article par United Nations Population Fund (abridged)

A new level of partnership that will bring a significant boost in investment to family planning services in 13 countries, with a focus on vulnerable groups, particularly in areas affected by natural disasters and conflict, was launched by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) today at Women Deliver.



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The initiative will contribute to filling the gap in health care infrastructure, boosting the quality of the health workforce, developing efficient family planning distribution systems and ensuring affordable family planning supplies.

"Family planning has been at the heart of UNFPA's work for more than 40 years, and partnerships like this are key to ensuring that hard-to-reach and under-served populations, particularly women, girls and young people, get access to the reproductive health they need," said UNFPA Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin. "We welcome this initiative and value our longstanding partnership with IPPF, considering its support for family planning and its substantial service delivery capacity."

The combination of IPPF’s experience of service delivery and UNFPA’s strong country presence will help address the unmet need for voluntary contraception and increase political and financial support for voluntary family planning and sexual and reproductive health services at the national level.

The partnership, which will also ensure that innovative strategies are included and funded by national plans, is being fine-tuned with information collected during assessments carried out throughout the year. Such assessments have so far been completed in Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and South Sudan.

IPPF’s Director General, Tewodros Melesse, said: “Our two organizations have worked together over many years, and I’m proud that we can have a key joint role as we work towards the FP2020 goals. There cannot be meaningful development without sexual and reproductive health and rights—we’re the largest NGO dealing with these issues on the ground” . . .

As part of the initiative, seven IPPF Member Associations will work in close collaboration with UNFPA to provide around 2 million family planning services by 2013, with plans to increase that to 25 million by 2015. Young people are expected to constitute about 30 per cent of the beneficiaries. . .

Cultural barriers make it more difficult for women and unmarried individuals to seek and access the family planning services they need. Through this new collaboration, UNFPA and IPPF are using their combined experience to reach these individuals and couples.

In Côte d'Ivoire, 60 per cent of women who wish to delay or avoid a pregnancy are not using modern methods of contraception. Only 36 per cent of the country’s health facilities offer a choice of modern contraceptive methods. The adolescent girls’ birth rate has increased from 111/1,000 in 2005 to 129/1,000 in 2012. . .

[Note: Thank you to Janet Hudgins, the CPNN reporter for this article.]

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What other resources can be utilized to give women more opportunities?,

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On their website, the United Nations Population Fund makes it clear that lack of access to family planning is a form of violence against women.

"Gender-based violence both reflects and reinforces inequities between men and women and compromises the health, dignity, security and autonomy of its victims. It encompasses a wide range of human rights violations, including sexual abuse of children, rape, domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment, trafficking of women and girls and several harmful traditional practices. Any one of these abuses can leave deep psychological scars, damage the health of women and girls in general, including their reproductive and sexual health, and in some instances, results in death.

Violence against women has been called "the most pervasive yet least recognized human rights abuse in the world." Accordingly, the Vienna Human Rights Conference and the Fourth World Conference on Women gave priority to this issue, which jeopardizes women's lives, bodies, psychological integrity and freedom. Violence may have profound effects – direct and indirect – on a woman's reproductive health, including:

Unwanted pregnancies and restricted access to family planning information and contraceptives
Unsafe abortion or injuries sustained during a legal abortion after an unwanted pregnancy
Complications from frequent, high-risk pregnancies and lack of follow-up care
Sexually transmitted infections, including HIV
Persistent gynaecological problems
Psychological problems
Gender-based violence also serves – by intention or effect – to perpetuate male power and control. It is sustained by a culture of silence and denial of the seriousness of the health consequences of abuse. In addition to the harm they exact on the individual level, these consequences also exact a social toll and place a heavy and unnecessary burden on health services.

UNFPA recognizes that violence against women is inextricably linked to gender-based inequalities. When women and girls are expected to be generally subservient, their behaviour in relation to their health, including reproductive health, is negatively affected at all stages of the life cycle.

UNFPA puts every effort into breaking the silence and ensuring that the voices of women are heard. At the same time, the Fund works to change the paradigm of masculinity that allows for the resolution of conflict through violence. . ... continuation.


Cet article a été mis en ligne le June 8, 2013.