International Conference "Expanding Access to Medical Abortion: Building on Two Decades of Experience"
Agenda
2 - 3 - 4 March 2010
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Objectives
- To share information on the current situation of access to medical abortion with an emphasis on lessons learned and challenges in expanding access
- To examine strategies that have succeeded in improving access
- To examine barriers to access and how they have been addressed
- To discuss issues causing controversy within the medical abortion community
- To discuss future strategies on expanding access to medical abortion
Conference organising committee
ICMA staff
Rodica Comendant, ICMA Coordinator
Silvina Ramos, ICMA Network Liaison Officer
Ludmila Tulus, ICMA Assistant
ICMA Steering Committee
Marge Berer, Chair
Bela Ganatra
Wanda Nowicka
Mariana Romero
Beverly Winikoff
Peter Fajans, WHO Observer
Regional network coordinators
Susana Chávez, Latin American Consortium Against Unsafe Abortion [CLACAI]
Suchitra Dalvie, Asian Safe Abortion Partnership [ASAP]
Djingarey Maiga, African Network for Medical Abortion [ANMA]
Galina Maistruk, East Europe Alliance for Reproductive Choice [EEARC]
Donors
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ipas
Gynuity Health Projects
Swedish International Development Authority
Tides Foundation
Safe Abortion Action Fund
American Jewish World Service
David & Lucille Packard Foundation
Participant Sponsors
Concept Foundation
International Planned Parenthood Federation
Marie Stopes International
Ibis Reproductive Health
Population Services International
FIAPAC
Fundación Oriéntame
Doctors for Choice
Women on Waves
National Abortion Federation and others
| 2 March – Day 1 | |
| 08:00 - 09.00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 09.05 | Opening Duarte Vilar, Director, Family Planning Association Portugal |
| 09:05 - 09.20 | Opening speech, Ministry of Health, Portugal |
| 09:20 - 09.30 | Welcome |
| Silvina Ramos, ICMA | |
| Traci Baird, Ipas | |
| Beverly Winikoff, Gynuity Health Projects | |
| 09:30 - 09.35 | About the conference, Rodica Comendant, ICMA Coordinator |
| 09:35 - 09.55 | Expanding access to medical abortion, Marge Berer |
| 09:55 - 10.15 | Best practice with medical abortion: current evidence, Nathalie Kapp |
| Questions, discussion 15 minutes after both | |
| 10:30 - 11.00 | Coffee |
| 11:00 - 12.30 |
Panel: Medical abortion pills: how and where do women get them Chairs: Sandy García; Makgoale Magwentshu |
| Hospital/ clinic provision, Danielle Hassoun | |
| Pharmacist provision, Joachim Odour Osur | |
| Social marketing, Vivek Malhotra | |
| Provision via the web, Kinga Jelinska | |
| Provision through mid-level providers, Elizabeth Talmont | |
| Risc and harm reduction models, Ana Labandera | |
| Self-medication in a war setting, Pierre Panda | |
| Presentations 10 minutes each, questions and discussion 20 minutes | |
| 12:30 - 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15.30 | Breakout sessions: Strategies supporting access |
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Strategies for dealing with religious and political opposition [Room Douro 1] Moderators: Raffaela Schiavon; Asma'u Joda |
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Strategies for engaging the media positively in abortion issues [Room Minho 3] Moderators: Emmanuel Ugoji; Margareth Arilha |
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Mobilizing providers for political advocacy of medical abortion [Room Douro 2] Moderators: Viktor Radzinzky; Ana Campos |
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Planning a campaign to make abortion safe and legal [Room Minho 2] Moderators: Sim-Poey Choong; María Luisa Sánchez Fuentes |
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Ensuring that legal abortions are accessible in legally restricted settings [Room Tejo] Moderators: Ana Cristina Gonzalez Velez; Cristina Hunguana |
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Pain control with first and second trimester medical abortion [Room Minho 1] Moderators: Marijke Alblas; Sharad Iyengar |
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| 15:30 - 16.00 | Tea |
| 16:00 - 17.30 |
Debate: How much medical supervision do women need to use medical abortion safely and effectively in early pregnancy Chairs: Marge Berer; Debora Diniz |
| Speakers: | |
| Victor Lara | |
| Dhaval Patel | |
| Ann Furedi | |
| Galina Maistruk | |
| Presentations 5 minutes each, responses 2 minutes each, debate open to the floor | |
| 19:00 | Reception / Conference dinner + dance |
| 3 March – Day 2 | |
| 09:00 - 10.40 |
Plenary: Informing women about medical abortion Chairs: Daniel Grossman, Olga Pietruchova |
| Women’s perspectives on medical abortion, Bela Ganatra | |
| Communicating with women in the clinic and the community, Cristina Villarreal | |
| Information versus counselling Duarte Vilar | |
| Developing information and communication materials for different settings Danish Khan; Mary Fjerstad | |
| Presentations 15 minutes each, questions, discussion 10 minutes each | |
| 10:40 - 11.10 | Coffee |
| 11:10 - 13.30 | Plenary: Realizing the potential of medical abortion |
| Chairs: Giselle Carino; Ronnie Johnson | |
| The transformative role of medical abortion: from manufacture to social change, Suchitra Dalvie | |
| Drugs for medical abortion: where we are now, Peter Hall | |
| Expanding access through off-label use of medical abortion, Beverly Winikoff | |
| Introduction of medical abortion: thinking strategically, Peter Fajans | |
| How cost influences access to medical abortion in the public and private sector Sharad Iyengar | |
| Presentations 15 minutes each; questions 5 minutes each, discussion 40 minutes | |
| 11:10 - 13.30 | Lunch |
| 15:00 - 16.00 | Regional caucuses: led by the regional network coordinators |
| Africa [Room Douro 1+2] | |
| Asia/New Zealand/Australia [Room Minho 2] | |
| Eastern Europe [Room Minho 1] | |
| Latin America/Caribbean [Room Tejo] | |
| Western Europe/North America [Room Minho 3] | |
| 16:00 - 16.30 | Tea |
| 16:30 - 17.30 | Regional caucuses continue |
| 4 March – Day 3 | |
| 08:30 - 10.10 | Plenary: The politics of abortion |
| Chairs: Mawaheb El-Mouelhy; Dominique Audouze | |
| Politics of abortion rights work, Wanda Nowicka | |
| Organising in the current political context: the next decade, Silvina Ramos | |
| Presentations 20 minutes each, discussion 60 minutes | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee |
| 10:40 - 12.00 | Plenary: National perspectives from four countries |
| Chairs: Susan Yanow; Nongluk Boonthai | |
| Nigeria, Ejike Oji | |
| Mexico, City, Patricio Sanhueza | |
| Nepal, Indira Basnett | |
| Russia, Irina Savelieva | |
| Presentations 15 minutes each, questions and discussion 10 minutes each | |
| 12:00 - 13.00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14.20 | ICMA: our vision: who we are, current activities, future priorities |
| Chairs: Daniela Draghici; Getachew Bekele | |
| ICMA, Marge Berer | |
| Latin American Consortium Against Unsafe Abortion, CLACAI | |
| Asian Safe Abortion Partnership, ASAP | |
| East Europe Alliance for Reproductive Choice, EEARC | |
| African Network for Medical Abortion, ANMA | |
| Presentations 10 minutes each | |
| Discussion: working together internationally and regionally to further our goals | |
| Open to the floor 30 minutes | |
| 14:20 - 15.20 | Conference consensus statement, Mariana Romero |
| 15:20 - 15.50 | Participants speak from the floor and say what they are planning to do as a result of this conference [1 minute each] |
| 15:50 - 16.00 | Conference closing, Mariana Romero |
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