Publications
Saving Lives with Multipurpose Prevention Technologies
Saving Lives with Multipurpose Prevention Technologies: Turing Ideas Into Solutions for Sexual and Reproductive Health
This document was developed on behalf of the Initiative for Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (IMPT) for sexual and reproductive health by Bethany Young Holt from the Coalition Advancing Multipurpose Innovations (CAMI) of the Public Health Institute and UCBerkeley School of Public Health and Maggie Kilbourne-Brook, Jess Cohen and Michele Burns of PATH.
Advocacy BriefContraception Editorial March 2010
Multipurpose Prevention Technologies for Sexual and Reproductive Health: Gaining Momentum and Promise
Over the past four decades, the world has made substantial gains in the effort to prevent unplanned pregnancies and reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, and other reproductive tract infections (RTIs). Yet, STIs and RTIs still cause a heavy health burden, especially in developing countries, and there is an equally urgent unmet need for contraception.
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Sister to Sister Project
CAMI was supported by the CA AIDS Clearinghouse and the CA Office of AIDS to develop a series of STI and Pregnancy Prevention photo novellas in English and in Spanish targeting adolescents. For more information about these novellas, please contact CAMI at cami@cami-health.com
Resources
Advancing Prevention Technologies for Sexual and Reproductive Health
Report of a Symposium
Berkeley, California, USA, 24-25 March 2009
The Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act of 2010 addresses the need to support and improve sexual and reproductive health across the globe.
Poster presentation on MPTs presented at Microbicides 2010, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Strategic Health Resources re HRES 1179 Small Biotechnology Innovation
Research
Family planning: the essential link to achieving all eight Millennium Development Goals
Willard Cates
Contraception. 2010 Jun;81(6):460-1. Epub 2010 Feb 10.
Links
- Association for Reproductive Health Professionals
- AVAC: Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention
- CAMI
- CONRAD
- Family Health International
- Guttmacher Institute
- Health Research for Action, UC Berkeley
- International Partnership for Microbicides
- Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Inc.
- Mary Wohlford Foundation
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases*
- PATH
- Public Health Institute
- Population Council
- UC Discovery Grant
- United States Agency for International Development
- Venture Strategies for Health and Development
- World Health Organization
