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Sustainability of Key Populations in Asia (SKPA) Project: Gender Assessment for SKPA Countries
Gender inequality affects service access through gender-based violence and sexual exploitation, disempowerment in the negotiation of safe sex and discrimination related to the infringement of traditional gender roles among key populations. During ...
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Sustainability of Key Populations in Asia (SKPA) Project - PrEP Consultation Meeting
In September 2015, WHO recommended that oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) be offered as an additional prevention choice for people at substantial risk of HIV infection as part of combination HIV prevention approaches. As such the National STD a...
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World AIDS Day 2019
World AIDS Day, held each year on December 1, is an opportunity to celebrate and support global and local efforts to prevent new HIV infections, increase HIV awareness and knowledge, and support those living with HIV.
Since World AIDS Day w...
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Ground- breaking initiative by the Social Enterprise Hub of IPPF
In 2015, The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) established the Social Enterprise Acceleration Programme (SEAP) with the long-term aim of strengthening the capacity of its Member Associations to apply entrepreneurial best practices...
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Consultations on the topic of Female Genital Cutting/Circumcision in Sri Lanka
On the 4th and 5th of November, FPASL held a series of consultations on the topic of Female Genital Cutting/Circumcision in Sri Lanka with medical professionals and activists. The consultations were facilitated by the lead researchers of a quali...
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Why children need Comprehensive Sexuality Education
The world is changing...fast!Young people today are facing a very different set of challenges to those experienced by previous generations.
Education, must go beyond the traditional academic focus. It should support young people to develop t...
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Training of Trainer Workshop - Netherlands Embassy Grant
The Netherlands Embassy grant is supporting the Sri Lanka FP2020 programme, for Civil Society Organisations (CSO) to encourage the use of modern family planning methods among youth, men and women including older women, working women and single ...
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FPA Sri Lanka's Social Marketing Programme - Dealer Meetings
Our Social Marketing Programme markets contraceptives and lubricants through its island wide dealer network which comprises pharmacies, medical clinics, hospitals, groceries, etc. It continues to be the main non-state actor in reducing the barrie...
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Social Enterprise Hub-Technical support visit to the Botswana Family Welfare Association
In 2015, IPPF established a Social Enterprise Acceleration Program (SEAP) that aimed to strengthen Member Associations (MA) capacity to apply entrepreneurial best practice in the health sector whilst delivering social value and improving lives. It...
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World Mental Health Day 2019
Did you know - Every 40 seconds, someone loses their life to suicide.
Close to 800 000 people die by suicide every year. Furthermore, for each suicide, there are more than 20 suicide attempts.
Suicides and suicide ...