PAI on BBC: New Report on Threat to Reproductive Health Supplies in Africa

PAI's Dr. Karen Hardee spoke to BBC Radio's Network Africa about our new report, Reproductive Health Supplies in Six Countries: Themes and Entry Points in Policies, Systems and Funding. The report identifies the challenges faced by reproductive health programs in Bangladesh, Ghana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Tanzania and Uganda and calls for renewed attention to reproductive health supplies to avoid putting the health of millions of women at risk.  The show was broadcast throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

Listen to the interview here

Read the full report and press release here

PAI in Bonn: Reports from International Climate Talks

Kathleen Mogelgaard, director of PAI’s Climate Program, reported live from the international climate change talks in Bonn, Germany last week for Grist. Her three blog posts gave Grist readers a glimpse into what really happens at high-level U.N. talks and showed the importance of having groups like PAI present to remind the delegations about the effect climate change has on women and the poor around the world.

Read Dispatches from Bonn:
First Impressions from Bonn: Climate Change Hurts the Poor
Climate Change is Sexist
Powerful Injustice at the Bonn Climate Talks

President’s Budget and New Global Health Initiative Signal a Renewed U.S. Commitment to Family Planning

President Obama’s recently released federal budget request for 2010 proposes a 9% increase in funding for international family planning assistance, bringing the total to $593 million. While this request falls short of the total U.S. funding needed to support family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) worldwide, this increase signals the Administration’s commitment to enhancing U.S. support for these life-saving programs even during very difficult economic times. In addition to the funding request, the Obama Administration also announced a new “Global Health Initiative,” which calls for increasing funding for global health programs to a total of $63 billion over the next six years. Details are forthcoming but officials with the Obama Administration have indicated that the Initiative will include significant increases in funding for FP/RH over the next six years.

Read the article here

Sharing PAI's Voices: Unveiling the Silent Partner: Tackling Gender Norms in the Fight Against HIV

PAI first met Kennedy Odhiambo Otina in 2008 during the filming of The Silent Partner: HIV in Marriage, our latest advocacy documentary.  A skilled advocate and grassroots organizer, Kennedy has led Men for Gender Equality Now (MEGEN) since its early days when it was a pilot project of FEMNET, the African Women’s Development and Communication Network based in Nairobi, Kenya.  These days MEGEN is an independent NGO on the regional stage, replicating its organizational, advocacy and communications strategies in six additional African countries.  

Kennedy shares how he got started in the movement to end gender violence here

Watch The Silent Partner here

 Introducing PAI’s New Passport: The 2008 Annual Report

At PAI, we don’t just look at the problems facing the world – we focus on finding the solutions.

Please take a moment to celebrate a year of extraordinary success – and to consider how you can help us move that success into the future. Together, we can create a healthier world where people everywhere may prosper and live in balance with the earth.

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View the full report: 2008 Passport

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