Access for All - Reproductive health supplies conference takes place in Addis Ababa

24 June 2011

Source: Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition

The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition hosted a two-day Access for All conference in Ethiopia this month, including a session facilitated by PSN's Karen Newman. 

Celebrating a decade of struggle and success

On 22-23 June 2011 members of the reproductive health community convened in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to celebrate a decade of struggle and success in ensuring that women and men around the world can choose, obtain, and use the supplies they need to ensure their reproductive health.

The gathering marked the 10th anniversary of the 2001 Istanbul conference, Meeting the Challenge, which many view as having given rise to today's global reproductive health commodity security movement.

Promoting Access for All

To celebrate this anniversary, the Coalition hosted the two-day conference, Access for All: Supplying a new decade for reproductive health, where global leaders and other decision-makers spoke out for a reinvigorated effort to ensure RH commodity security and advance the aims of the Coalition's HANDtoHAND Campaign.

Access for All formed the centerpiece of a host of supply-related activities taking place throughout the week. These included a Working Group and other specialized meetings as well as the Coalition's annual membership meeting on Friday, 24 June.

PSN at Access for All

PSN's Karen Newman was delighted to take part in the conference and to facilitate several of the conference sessions.

Karen also facilitated the participation of Population and Climate Change Alliance (PCCA) founder-member PHE (Population, Health and Environment) Ethiopia's Director, Negash Teklu, as a speaker at the meeting.

Further information

Further information about the conference is available on the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition website.