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The growing global partnership between UNFPA and Special Olympics was formalized by the signing of an agreement during the Nairobi Summit in November 2019. The partnership represents a shared commitment to empower youth with intellectual disabilities, especially girls and women, to access greater social protections and health services.
The partnership focuses on developing thought leadership, inclusive programmes and communication advocacy with an emphasis on positive youth development, gender equality and women’s empowerment and family engagement for inclusive health.
UNFPA and Special Olympics are collaborating in different regions of the world to implement joint initiatives. For example, in partnership with the Shakhtar Football Club, the “Come On, Play!” project teaches football skills to young girls with intellectual disabilities in four Ukrainian cities, and the sport is used as a platform for inclusion and building self-esteem. "We, like these girls, are full of positive energy after the training," said Danylo Sikan, a participating football player.
Reckitt
The current focus of the global health sector on the COVID-19 response poses a risk that investments in safe birth programmes will decline.
In this context, the UNFPA and Reckitt partnership represents a unique opportunity to ensure continued strategic global engagement and investments in safe birth programmes by bringing together the distinctive skills, resources and reach of leading international actors.
The project is “Safe Birth for All,” for women and girls in Mexico, the Philippines, and Thailand to have safe births, access family planning services and prevent adolescent pregnancies.
With a focus on vulnerable communities, the project has multiple dimensions tackling both short-term and long-term objectives. It used, implemented and created digital platforms to expand the reach of comprehensive sexuality education for youth and adolescents. In parallel, the partnership worked to strengthen maternal health care services by assuring effective service deliveries. To do so, the project enhanced the provision of maternal and newborn health services and access to family planning within communities and selected health facilities, provided supplies and training to midwives and health personnel and distributed reproductive health kits to pregnant women.
The journey to becoming a midwife in Mexico
Published on: 07/07/2022
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Bayer
Bayer’s long-term commitment to family planning is reinforced in accordance with the Programme of Action of the Nairobi summit (ICPD25). The company has been supporting family-planning programs with a broad range of hormonal contraception methods for many years, including oral contraceptives, monthly and thrice-monthly injections and implants 1. Low- and low-middle-income countries have seen increasing demand for contraception, particularly long-acting, reversible contraceptives (LARCs), including implants
By providing immediate solutions to solve urgent problems as well as long-term structural proficiency, Bayer strengthens UNFPA’s humanitarian response.
Bayer’s expertise and innovation within supply chains and medical logistics help support UNFPA’s country offices in overcoming bottlenecks related to COVID-19 and improving logistics measures to maintain the quality of pharmaceutical supplies.
The partnership also focuses on supplies provided in the Interagency Emergency Reproductive Health (IARH) kits as well as on improving the clinical practices of service providers.
The company’s medical logistics and know-how will help UNFPA to strengthen its supply chain management and the use of pharmaceuticals during humanitarian crises in a sustainable manner.
Bayer has recently committed$1 million $500,000 and products worth $3.8 million to the UNFPA Supplies Partnership, which seeks to secure the essential contraceptive supplies and maternal health medicines required by millions of women and adolescent girls over the next decade. Bayer’s contribution will help prevent almost 215,000 unintended pregnancies, 5,000 maternal and child deaths, and over 58,000 unsafe abortions in Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
1By 2030, we are committed to providing 100 million women in low- and middle-income countries with access to modern contraception. Bayer AG. 13 October 2021. Available at: https://www.bayer.com/en/pharma/empowering-women-globally Last accessed: November 2021.
2Harrison, M.S., Goldenberg, R.L. Immediate postpartum use of long-acting reversible contraceptives in low- and middle-income countries. matern health, neonatol and perinatol 3, 24 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40748-017-0063-z
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