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 In this Spring 2011 edition of our donor newsletter, Reaching Out, you will learn about the donor trip to Colombia and their firsthand observations of the triumphs and challenges of IPPF/WHR Member Association PROFAMILIA. You’ll read about the efforts in Colombia to ensure access to sexual and reproductive health services. Major Donors Officer, Nikki Speer, and Alex Sanger also made contributions to this edition. |
 UNIVERSAL ACCESS to reproductive health is key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. MDG 5, “Improve Maternal Health,” particularly target 5b, “Achieve Universal Access to Reproductive Health,” is the most off-track of all MDGs, even though the critical importance of reproductive health to development has been widely acknowledged. Universal access to reproductive health is the key to:
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 We have been working hand in hand with our Member Association PROFAMIL for more than two decades. Now, after the devastating earthquake this past January, we are working to help develop a long-term recovery plan to increase access to sexual and reproductive health services for displaced women and others during the grueling rebuilding phase. In this Spring 2010 edition of Reaching Out you will learn more about our work in Haiti in addition to Nicaragua’s highly restrictive abortion laws and how one pregnant cancer patient faces certain death because of the ban on therapeutic abortions. Also, Alex Sanger contributes an OpEd about maternal mortality and Kristi Miller shares her experience of visiting four IPPF/WHR Member Associations. |
 In this Fall 09 issue of Reaching Out, you will learn of some of the steady progress we are making in partnership with our 41 Member Associations. We capture our commitment to improve health and choices for millions left in the shadows. Although there is an overwhelming need for contraceptives in Latin American and Caribbean, IPPF/WHR is stepping in to pick up the slack. Our mobile health units in Bolivia travel on treacherous terrain to serve women like Dinonicia Olimbo Vega who lives in a remote village and walks two hours with her 5-year-old daughter to see a doctor. And, Alex Sanger contributes an OpEd about Fetal Personhood Laws. |
 In 2008, our 41 Member Associations in Latin America and the Caribbean provided 29, 819,125 services. We helped improve individual lives, change attitudes and reduce poverty’s grip throughout the region. We drove on rugged mountain roads to serve women living in remote villages, miles from the nearest clinic. We were in the forefront of opposition to restrictive laws repressive policies and that deprive women of their dignity and the right to determine their own reproductive destinies. We also empowered young people through peer education programs and increased their access to appropriate sexual and reproductive health education, information and services. |
 This meta-analysis was conducted to better understand the relationship between sustainability and reaching the poor. |
 Recommendations for Improving Knowledge and Access to Emergency Contraception. |
 This informational sheet describes the positive health outcomes that were achieved in remote indigenous communities in Bolivia through the provision of education and services through mobile health units. |