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  • Title: FHI's role at the Cairo conference. Introduction.
    Author: Barnett B.
    Journal: Netw Res Triangle Park N C; 1994 Dec; 15(2):18-9. PubMed ID: 12319042.
    Abstract:
    Family Health International (FHI) headed up workshops, had an information booth, and granted media interviews at the Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) Forum in Cairo, Egypt. The NGO Forum was held at the same time as the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). It allowed international and grass-roots organizations and people working in family planning programs, contraception research, and women's health to share ideas and information. At the NGO Forum, FHI sponsored panel discussions on effectiveness and acceptability of barrier methods, merits and challenges of integrating family planning and sexually transmitted disease (STD) services, women and AIDS, and an overview of contraceptive methods. Based on discussions at the preparatory meetings for ICPD, FHI took on the role as the resource for information and education on family planning, women's health, and STD prevention. ICPD delegates had to approve a Programme of Action that had been drafted at the preparatory meetings. Most of the 16 chapters were considered non-controversial. Chapters 7 and 8 stirred the most debate. Chapter 7 pronounced that both men and women should have access to fertility control methods. The Holy See and some Islamic nations interpreted this statement to mean right to abortion. Delegates replaced the term fertility regulation with the terms family planning and regulation of fertility. The 25th paragraph in Chapter 8 also stirred considerable debate. It addressed the effect of unsafe abortion on maternal health. Both Catholic and Islamic leaders believed this paragraph to promote abortions. Major implications of the ICPD document are a more active role of women in family planning services, family planning being part of women's larger reproductive health needs, more research on female-controlled barrier methods and on finding an AIDS cure, male responsibility for own sexual health and fertility, and the need to link family planning with development activities.
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