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| Advocates for Youth provides information,
training, and strategic assistance to
youth-serving organizations, policy
makers, youth activists, and the media
in the United States and the developing
world. |
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| The American Medical Women's Association
functions at the local, national, and
international level to advance women
in medicine and improve women's health. |
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| The Association of Reproductive Health
Professionals (ARHP) is a non-profit
membership association comprised of
professionals who provide services,
education, and training, conduct research,
and influence policy pertaining to reproductive
health. |
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| BPAS supports reproductive choice
by advocating and providing high quality,
affordable services to prevent or end
unwanted pregnancies with contraception
or by abortion. |
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| Catholics for Choice works
internationally with local partners,
supporters and sister organizations
to advance prochoice Catholic perspectives
around the world. |
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| The Center for Reproductive Rights
uses the law to advance reproductive
freedom as a fundamental right that
all governments are legally obligated
to protect, respect and fulfill. |
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| The CRWG promotes collaborative, multidisciplinary
research related to women and gender,
with an emphasis on work, health and
culture. |
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| The Concept Foundation serves the
reproductive health needs of the developing
world, focusing on the identification
and introduction of quality health technologies
and pharmaceuticals that otherwise are
not available for the public sector. |
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| CONRAD's mission is to improve the
reproductive health of women and men
in under-resourced communities worldwide.
CONRAD facilitates the rapid development
of safe, acceptable, affordable products
and methods that provide contraception
and/or prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS
and other sexually transmitted infections. |
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| DKT International is a charitable
organization that implements social
marketing programs in developing countries
to increase access to reproductive technologies
while lowering their cost to consumers. |
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| EngenderHealth works worldwide to
improve the lives of individuals by
making reproductive health services
safe, available, and sustainable. We
provide technical assistance, training,
and information, with a focus on practical
solutions that improve services where
resources are scarce. |
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| FCI seeks to ensure that women and
adolescents have access to the life-saving
information and services they need to
improve their sexual and reproductive
health, experience safe pregnancy and
childbirth, and avoid unwanted pregnancy
and HIV infection. |
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| Family Health International is dedicated
to improving lives, knowledge and understanding
worldwide through a highly diversified
program of research, education and services
in family health and HIV/AIDS prevention
and care. |
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| The Guttmacher Institute is focused
on sexual and reproductive health research,
policy analysis and public education
and publishes journals and special reports
on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive
health and rights. |
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| Gynuity Health Projects is a research
and technical assistance organization
dedicated to the idea that all people
should have access to the fruits of
medical science and technology development.
Our goal is to make reproductive health
technologies more convenient, more acceptable,
safer, and more widely accessible. |
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| Ibis Reproductive Health is a non-profit
research organization that aims to improve
women's reproductive autonomy, choices,
and health worldwide. We employ a variety
of strategies to achieve our mission,
including conducting original clinical
and social science research, promoting
evidence-based policies and practices,
and producing educational resources. |
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| The Institute for Reproductive Health,
as part of Georgetown University's School
of Medicine, is dedicated to helping
women and men make informed choices
about family planning from healthy options
made available through research and
development. |
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| IPPF has been providing sexual and
reproductive health services since 1952.
We have 151 Member Associations and
millions of volunteers working to support
people's rights in 183 countries worldwide
- particularly the rights of those who
are poor, underserved or marginalized. |
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| The International Planned Parenthood
Federation/Western Hemisphere Region
(IPPF/WHR) was founded in 1954 with
the goal of improving the health of
women throughout the Americas. IPPF/WHR
seeks to address the range of sexual
and reproductive health issues that
affect the integral health of women,
men and adolescents. |
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| The International Women's Health Coalition
(IWHC) promotes the health and rights
of women and girls worldwide through
technical and financial support to nongovernmental
organizations in selected countries
of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and
Eastern Europe; coordination and mobilization
of international coalitions for participation
in global health policy debates; substantive
advice to United Nations agencies; and
a multifaceted communications program. |
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| Ipas has worked for three decades
to increase women's ability to exercise
their sexual and reproductive rights
and to reduce deaths and injuries of
women from unsafe abortion. Ipas's global
and country programs include training,
research, advocacy, distribution of
reproductive health care equipment and
supplies, and information dissemination. |
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| JSI and its staff are dedicated to
improving the health of individuals
and communities throughout the world.
To make this vision a reality JSI applies
practical and innovative solutions in
management, research, education, information
and training. |
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| Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
is a leading international organization
dedicated to closing the gap between
knowledge and action in public health.
By helping public and private organizations
throughout the world to effectively
manage people, medicines, money and
information, MSH saves lives and improves
health. |
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| The Margaret Sanger Center International
(MSCI) works to improve sexual and reproductive
health worldwide. Over the past three
decades, MSCI has developed signature
expertise in: comprehensive sexuality
education and HIV prevention, youth-centered
education and services, gender equity
perspectives, including male involvement
to prevent violence against women, training
and technical assistance on advocacy
and organizational development to build
the capacity of community organizations
and governments. |
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| MSI works closely with governments,
health professionals, other non-government
organizations and local communities
in the developing world to design and
deliver innovative and high-quality
programs of sexual and reproductive
health care that are culturally appropriate
and responsive to local needs. |
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| The MWIA is an association representing
women doctors from all five continents,
which aims to offer medical women the
opportunity to meet so as to confer
upon questions concerning the health
and well-being of humanity. |
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| Meridian specializes in public-private
partnerships which link the demand from
the public sector with the supply of
the private sector. Meridian's marketing
and communication experts have helped
the donor community use commercial approaches
to market health products and services
in 20 countries throughout Asia, the
Middle and Far East, Central Asia, Africa,
and Latin America. |
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| PIWH conducts action research, education
and advocacy in collaboration with activists,
scholars, policy-makers and health providers
to strengthen grassroots organizations
and educate women and girls about their
reproductive choices. |
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| PATH is an international, nonprofit
organization that creates sustainable,
culturally relevant solutions, enabling
communities worldwide to break longstanding
cycles of poor health. By collaborating
with diverse public- and private-sector
partners, we help provide appropriate
health technologies and vital strategies
that change the way people think and
act. |
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| Working in over 20 countries throughout
Africa, Latin America, Asia and the
Near East, Pathfinder is committed to
developing services on both a facility
and community level in all areas of
reproductive health, including family
planning, HIV, adolescent reproductive
health, safe abortion and postabortion
care, and advocacy, in partnerships
from grassroots to government. |
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| PPFA provides and ensures access to
comprehensive reproductive and complementary
health care services and promotes educational
programs and research which enhance
understanding of individual and societal
implications of human sexuality. |
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| PAI influences U.S. and international
policy by using research and strategic
advocacy that firmly links population,
reproductive health, the environment
and development - ultimately working
to advance the health and status of
women and families worldwide. |
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| The Population Council conducts biomedical,
public health, and social science research
to improve the well-being and reproductive
health of individuals around the world.
Council research has been instrumental
in the design of health products, service-delivery
programs, and public policies. |
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| PSI deploys commercial marketing strategies
in 70 developing countries to promote
health products, services and healthy
behavior that enable low-income and
vulnerable people to lead healthier
lives. Products and services are sold
at subsidized prices affordable to low-income
populations, access is ensured by leveraging
the existing local private sector, NGOs
and government infrastructures and behaviour
change is promoted through the use of
targeted, efficient communications and
channels. |
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| PROSALUD INTER-AMERICANA is a network
of non-governmental organizations in
South America. Active in Argentina,
Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela,
these NGOs develop, implement, and manage
social commercial marketing programs
that seek to improve the reproductive
health of their clients through the
provision of affordable contraceptives,
education, referral information, outreach,
and other services. During the past
five years, these NGOs have successfully
distributed 3 million doses of dedicated
ECPs. |
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| HRP is the main instrument within
the United Nations system for research
in human reproduction, bringing together
policy-makers, scientists, health care
providers, clinicians, consumers and
community representatives to identify
and address priorities for research
to improve sexual and reproductive health. |
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| The Women's Commission speaks out
on issues of concern to refugee and
displaced women, children and adolescents
and also provides opportunities for
refugee women and youth to speak for
themselves through briefings, testimony,
participation in field assessments and
international conferences. |
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| LACEC is a network of non-governmental,
governmental, private, and public organizations
and institutions that work in healthcare,
education, and sexual and reproductive
rights. Their advocacy efforts for promoting
and ensuring access to emergency contraception
are aimed towards the reduction of the
unwanted pregnancy, maternal mortality,
and unsafe abortion in Latin America. |
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| EC afrique is a bilingual (French/English),
international network of health care
and business professionals seeking to
expand the availability of quality emergency
contraception services in Africa. The
network functions as a non-political,
voluntary association, guided by consensus
among members, and mindful of Africa's
broad ethnic, cultural, and political
diversity. |
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| APNEC is a multi-sectoral group of
policy makers, health professionals
and providers, educators, community
leaders, youth representatives, and
human rights advocates who recognize
the common experience in the Asia Pacific
region that information about emergency
contraception, its products and services
remain unavailable to most women. The
members resolve to come together to
address this reproductive health and
rights issue. |
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| This network, coordinated by PATH,
aims to increase access to information
on EC and other reproductive health
issues in Russian-speaking countries. |
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| Established by the ICEC in 2003, the
Arab Region consortium aims to promote
access to emergency contraception in
the Arab world. Coordinated by Ibis
Reproductive Health, this informal network
offers organizations working on emergency
contraception in the region a vehicle
to share information, experiences, and
resources. The network also aims to
expand medically accurate Arabic-language
resources dedicated to emergency contraception. |
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