UAFC at Family Planning Conference in Kampala

Program UAFC at Family Planning Conference in Kampala

Monday 16/11/2009 19:00 - 20:30 (Meera Conference Hall)

Auxiliary Workshop: Female Condom Programming: breaking down the barriers!   Society for Family Health and Association Camer-ounaise pour le Marketing Social present the first results from the female condom country pro-grammes. Various types of female condom models will be presented and the advocacy statement on female condoms will be launched. The session will be followed by an informal drink.

Tuesday 17/11/2009 13:00—14:00

Roundtable lunch session on joint advocacy for female condoms
The discussion will focus on how to get more organizations involved in female condom advocacy.

15:30—16:00

Poster presentation

Lessons learned and best practices from two large scale female condom programmes started in Nigeria and Cameroon will be presented.


Wednesday 18/11/009 14:00—15:30 (Majestic Hall)

Skill building workshop on female condom programming
In this participative skill building workshop, the focus will be on:
a) the development of Information, Education and Communication materials and the use of female condom champions
b) the engagement of men and how to make men female condom consumers.

Ilze Smit
Advocacy officer 'Universal Access to Female Condoms' (UAFC) Joint Programme
Tel: + 31(0) 30 23 93 888
Email: I.Smit@wpf.org

For information on the female condom and our program:
http://www.condoms4all.org/

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Countries in this article

Uganda

UAFC lobby paper

UAFC has developed a profound advocacy strategy in order to achieve acces to female condoms for all. For background on this strategy and to strengthen your own lobby activities you have access to this paper.

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Breaking down the barriers!

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Ilze Smit of UAFC Joint Programme presented the session Female Condom Programming and Advocacy: Braking down the Barriers! at the NGO Forum ICPD+15.

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see the photo's of the Forum

Trainings in Rwanda

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"In our daily work in HIV prevention and even in our sexual and reproductive life sessions with potential users, in trainings and advocay, we talk about female condoms as you can see in these photos. I'm pushing to include FC in our major advocay themes. It recently has been included in the Rwanda National NGO forum on AIDS for the four year strategic plan (2009/2012)," says Fortunée Twiyubahe from ACORD/Oxfam International in Rwanda.

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Part of our new website is the revolutionary knowledge base. This is a repository of concepts related to the main theme of UAFC, the female condom. This repository is organized according to themes, geographic location and time. We invite you to start exploring our knowledge base.

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ACMS Website

In Cameroon the Association Camerounaise pour le Marketing (ACMS) works on making Female Condoms available to a large usersgroup. ACMS has its own website, with which it reaches especially young people.

Interview with Victoria Archibong, SFH

"I believe the introduction of the male condoms was relatively easier. This could be because it was easier to target men as the “dominant” party in relationships and the ones who will wear the condoms. There was also a lot of support from donors and IPs. The female condom is regarded more as a “woman thing”. Some men may feel threatened as the female condom will empower women in demonstrating their sexual and reproductive health rights. For Female condom programming, programmers have to be more creative and strategic."

read the interview

"I'm going to use mine"

"The male condom was promoted so hard in advertising, through school education and advocacy – we need the same effort for the female condom," said Farah Karimi, director of Oxfam-Novib at a press conference at the International AIDS Confernce in Mexico City. Mary Robinson, former President of the Republic of Ireland added: Girls and women need the skills to say, 'if you're not going to use yours then I'm going to use mine' to their sexual partners."

Read the article in Plusnews.

Empower women in Malawi

Sandra Mapemba, national condom programme coordinator at the Reproductive Health Unit (RHU) in the Ministry of Health in Malawi, believes the female condom will empower women to have more control in their sexual relationships, help them protect themselves from sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV, as well as unwanted pregnancies.