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Coalition Director connects SRH supplies and Universal Health Coverage in keynote address
17th September 2019This month, Coalition Director John Skibiak made key recommendations for South-South cooperation to improve universal access to reproductive health (RH) supplies. Delivering his keynote address in Tunis to the 16th International Inter-Ministerial Conference on South-South Cooperation in Population and Development, Mr. Skibiak spelt out three distinct ways forward; he called on the community to (1) recognize the value of SRHR within the broader Universal Health Coverage (UHC) agenda, (2) include SRHR within essential health benefits packages, and (3) garner the evidence base to strengthen the systems on which UHC efforts depend.
Categories: Commodity Gap Analysis, Global FP VAN, Universal Health Coverage, ForoLAC
Coalition Secretariat welcomes new VAN project manager
17th September 2019Trisha Long has joined the Coalition Secretariat as the Global FP VAN’s new Data & Technology Project Manager. Trisha is a familiar face to many in our community, having participated for many years in the CARhs and the CSP. She...
Category: Global FP VAN
SSWG launches new visibility and analytics workstream.
17th September 2019The Systems Strengthening Working Group (SSWG) has launched a new workstream aimed at advancing best practices and exploring country-level supply chain visibility and analytics. The workstream also hopes to advise and offer...
Category: Systems Strengthening Working Group
SEPREMI pays for itself in less than two months
17th September 2019Last month, Nicaragua’s Ministry of Health acknowledged that as a result of market intelligence gathered through SEPREMI, they were now in a position to order quality-assured condoms at a third of the price previously paid to...
Category: ForoLAC
Youth Caucus helps finalize UNFPA/Guttmacher position paper
17th September 2019This month, members of the Youth Caucus provided feedback to a draft brief titled “Young People’s Need for Contraception”, prepared by UNFPA and the Guttmacher Institute to inform discussions during the recent Antalya global...
Category: Youth Caucus