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  • Title: IWAP will address gender issues.
    Journal: IPPF Open File; 1994 Jul; ():1. PubMed ID: 12288056.
    Abstract:
    The International Planned Parenthood Federation's (IPPF) International Women's Advisory Panel (IWAP) held meetings and offered some recommendations on a variety of topics, including the forthcoming International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). A full report on their meetings will not be available until December 1994. The Federation Secretary urged members to be catalysts for social change. The meeting chairperson indicated that the cooperation arrangements with other IPPF international programs and medical advisory panels would facilitate IWAP's tasks. Papers were presented on quality of care and women's perspectives on reproductive health and rights. Discussion focused on the issues of women, holistic approaches to women's health, and the ICPD conference and the forthcoming World Summit on Social Development set for March 1995 and the Fourth World Conference on Women set for Beijing in September 1995. IWAP gave their support for the IPPF positions toward ICPD. IWAP urged IPPF to strongly and uncompromisingly support safe, legal abortion. The links between the forthcoming conferences were discussed. Family planning associations (FPAs) were viewed as key links in influencing country positions and declarations. Support was given for the International Advisory Medical Panel position on distribution of quinacrine pellets for female sterilization. The concern was for improper administration in IPPF or FPA unsupervised settings and with a lack of information. FPAs should encourage women to select another method. A separate statement was issued on the nature of women's health, as encompassing physical, mental, and social well-being of an individual throughout her lifetime. Women in family planning setting are frequently viewed only in terms of their reproductive functions, rather than in their physical and mental, occupational, environmental, and sexual roles. The statement provided FPAs with suggestions on how to implement holistic health services including increasing women's involvement in program design and delivery and training service providers to be more gender-aware. Regional task forces will be discussing gender equality and promotion that was only discussed preliminarily at the 3.5 day meetings. Strategies for mutual support and reinforcement of IWAP and the IPPF regional bureaus remain to be developed and will be the focus of next year's meetings in September 1995. At that time regional task forces and staff members will be invited to participate.
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