International Women's Health Programme

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News

SOGC News Articles related to the International Women's Health Program

April 2007 - Midwifery on the International Stage
March 2007 - International Women's Health: A Program in Growth and Evolution - SOGC Partners in Kosovo Launch New FIGO Project - Content Review to Produce 4rth Edition ALARM International Program
February 2007 - Five Year, 2.25 million renewal grant to International Development Program - My Behind the Scenes Look at the IWHP
Winter 2006 - Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health Around the World - Members Travel the Globe in Support of IWHP's Activities
November 2006 - Needs Assessment Highlights Human Resources, Infrastructure Lacking for Obstetrical Care in Haiti
October 2006 - Update: International Women's Health Program
Summer 2006 - International Women's Health Sympoisum 2006 and ALARM International Plus in Ukraine
June 2006 - FIGO Hosts First Meeting of Save the Mothers and Newborns Project and Training the Trainers: ALARM International Professional Development
May 2006 - ALARM International in Uganda: Perspectives from a First TIme Volunteer
March 2006 - International Women's Health Program Signs Partnership in Ukraine
February 2006 - The SOGC Partnership Program in Haiti

Events

Ottawa is host to ALARM International Program: Orientation to the 4th Edition

Ottawa, Ontario October 26-31 2007

The International Women’s Health Program will be hosting an ALARM International Program inaugural course October 26-31, 2007 in Ottawa. This is an opportunity for instructors, at home and overseas, to become familiar with the new, 4th Edition of the ALARM International Program.

Since January 2007 we have been busy revising the fourth edition of the ALARM International Program educational material. The objective of this revision was to produce an updated manual that addresses the realities of resource constrained countries while also promoting evidence-based medicine and introducing new technologies to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. This edition and its accompanying instructor’s manual has been entirely reviewed by members of the ALARM/GESTA International Committee as well as the International Women’s Health Committee of the SOGC and in collaboration with representatives from our partner countries of Guatemala, Haiti, Uganda, and Ukraine.

Approximately 40 participants will attend as well as 6 instructors. The course is invite only and will be hosting guests from Canada, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Guatemala, Haiti, Mali, Senegal, Idonesia, Philippines, India, Guyana, Bolivia, Denmark, Sweden, Nigeria, as well as from WHO and PAHO.

New Partnership! Visit to Burkina Faso – September 2007

From September 15 to 22, 2007 Drs Michel Fortier (member of the SOGC Executive Committee) and Celine Bouchard (co-chair of the IWH Committee and Liette Perron (Project Manager, SOGC’s Partnership Program) will be visiting Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) for the purpose of initiating the activities of the SOGC – Société des Obstétriciens et Gynécologues du Burkina Faso (SOGOB) partnership program. This new partnership is supported by the Canadian International Development Agency’s through SOGC’s Partnership Program. The mission will include several meetings with the Executive Committee of SOGOB for the purpose of reviewing the goals and objectives of the program, completing an organizational capacity assessment of the association and agreeing on the priorities of the 5 years program. Visits to several health centers and other stakeholders are also being planned.

Women Deliver London UK- October 18-20

Members of the IWHP team, the International Women’s Health Committee and members from our partner country professional associations will be attending this landmark decennial conference on safe motherhood and newborn health. Women Deliver will bring together reproductive health experts, policy makers, health professionals, politicians, activists together to discuss the most current issues in the fight for safe motherhood and newborn health. The conference aims to highlight the connections between poverty, women’s health, rights, education and poverty reduction, integrate women’s health and rights into national plans and strategies and finally to convince the world community to use the health of women, mothers and babies as key indicators of the heath of nations. www.womendeliver.org

Global Safe Abortion Conference – London UK– October 23-24, 2007

Organized by Marie Stopes International, Ipas and Abortion Rights – the Global conference will host guests from all over the world, including politicians, doctors, professors and other experts working in the field of reproductive rights to discuss the global reality of abortion. The conference will focus on the toll unsafe abortion has taken on women’s lives and discuss rights, access, advocacy and funding as well as women’s right to self determination, encouraging legal reform and access to safe services. www.globalsafeabortion.org

International Women’s Health Symposium - June 21, 2007, Ottawa, On

Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health: Looking Back Looking Forward

As a lead up to the 3rd Decennial Global Safe Motherhood Conference being hosted in London, England in October 2007, the International Women’s Health Symposium will focus on themes identified for the Global Conference – including women as agents of social change. The Symposium will explore issues of maternal and newborn health and reflect on the challenges faced over the last 20 years, as well as looking forward to ongoing successful interventions, including the important role of professional associations.

PreliminaryProgram-IWHS2007.pdf

The SOGC's Pre Budget Consultation - September 2006

Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance

Annual Clinical Meeting, The Westin Bayshore, Vancouver - June 2006

International Women's Health Symposium - June 22, 2006

Unrestricted educational grant provided by: Duchesnay Inc
Undertaken with the financial support of: Canadian International Development Agenncy (CIDA)

Last Updated April 17, 2008