Universal access to health will be a reality only if every person everywhere receives essential drugs, contraceptives, other reproductive health, maternal and child health, immunization and nutrition health services and supplies when and where they need them. Improving availability of medicines has a positive impact on key public health indicators: reducing maternal mortality, infant mortality, and total fertility rate. These improvements are important to ensure human and social development for the entire population in the region, particularly for population groups in most vulnerable conditions: those in rural areas, living in poverty, indigenous, Afro-descendants, adolescents and youth.
Aware of the importance to achieve Contraceptive Security and move towards universal RH care, on June 2-3, 2016, USAID | DELIVER PROJECT organized the regional meeting Gathering More than a Decade of Experience in Contraceptive Security - How to continue in Latin America and the Caribbean, at the Hotel Holiday Inn Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Learn more at http://bit.ly/2auAuyA
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Holly Deaton
mailto:holly_deaton@jsi.com