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Webinar – My story, your camera, our rights: Communicating on abortion care and family planning as health care

22 September 2022 15:00 – 16:00 UTC Time

The WHO guidance is clear: abortion care is health care, and health is a human right. Even still, abortion remains a highly stigmatized issue. In order for safe, respectful and affordable abortion care to be accessible to all who need it, when they need it, there is a need for continuous advocacy for the right to comprehensive abortion care, and against stigma impacting those who seek and provide this health care.

Logo of the HRP special programmeThis webinar from WHO and HRP and hosted by the IBP Network, presented photos and positive stories of health as it relates to comprehensive abortion care and post-abortion family planning from countries in four WHO Regions. 

Video of the webinar

Listen to Pascale Allotey, Director of the WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH) and Vismita Gupta-Smith, WHO Head-Strategy, Planning & Coordination, Department of Communications, for a conversation with experts and photographers from Moldova, Nepal, Pakistan and Sierra Leone. This is a rich discussion on the importance of storytelling and sensitive approaches to communicating on sexual and reproductive health and rights. 

 

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IBP Network

With over 80 member organizations representing international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), local civil society organizations (CSOs), academia, and others, the IBP Network convenes partners to share best practices, experiences and tools to support family planning and reproductive health programming. Activities focus on supporting knowledge exchange, documentation, and implementation research efforts.