- Comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Family Planning
- Women, Girls, and HIV
- Maternal Health
- U.S. Foreign Policy & Funding
- Watch: Making U.S. Foreign Assistance Work for Women and Girls in Ethiopia
- Global Health Initiative
- Integrating HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health: U.S. Foreign Policy
- Female Condoms: Dual Protection
- Global Gag Rule
- Helms Amendment
- Foreign Assistance Budget
- Foreign Assistance Reform
- Kemp-Kasten Amendment
- Abstinence & Fidelity
- Anti-Prostitution Pledge
- The Critical Role of Advocacy in Foreign Assistance
- Why Women and Girls?
Global Health Initiative
In 2009, President Obama announced the Global Health Initiative (GHI), a new approach to global health that focuses on addressing critical concerns including family planning, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases. The GHI will guide U.S. policy on global health issues for the near and extended future. Advocates must strongly articulate the need for U.S. policy to embrace principles of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and its comprehensive sexual and reproductive health frame to ensure that the GHI truly promotes the health needs of all.
Two of the core principles that officials have designed to guide the GHI are the integration and coordination of the delivery of health interventions and a woman-centered approach. These two principles are critical to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Integration supports sexual and reproductive health by encouraging a holistic approach to patient care and more effectively addressing the interrelated sexual and reproductive health issues that individuals face. A woman-centered approach to health is a human rights-based approach that seeks to ensure that every individual has access to basic health, education and other social services, including sexual and reproductive health.
See CHANGE's Policy Brief A Woman-Centered Approach to the U.S. Global Health Initiative
See Kaiser Report THE WOMEN, GIRLS, AND GENDER EQUALITY PRINCIPLE OF THE U.S. GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVE (GHI): ASSESSMENT OF THE GHI PLUS COUNTRY STRATEGIES
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Related Links
- Americans for UNFPA
- Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)
- Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR)
- ForeignAssistance.gov
- International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
- International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC)
- Ipas
- PEPFAR Watch
- Population Action International (PAI)
- Prevention Now!
- Reproductive Health Matters
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