Female Genital Cutting (FGC) Zero Tolerance Day - February 6, 2004
![Photo of an FGC Congressional Briefing, from left: Dr. Abdelhadi Eltahir, Senior Technical Advisor/USAID Rep. Jim Greenwood (R-PA) and Nawal Nour, M.D; MPH, Director of African Women's Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081108104304im_/http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/pop/images/photo/Rep.-Greenwood-et-al.jpg) |
SOURCE: USAID
FGC Congressional Briefing
From left: Dr. Abdelhadi Eltahir, Senior Technical Advisor/USAID; Rep. Jim Greenwood (R-PA); and Nawal Nour, MD, MPH, Director of the African Women's Health Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. |
USAID sponsored the first anniversary symposium to review advances
and challenges in abandoning the practice of female genital cutting (“Translating Zero Tolerance into Zero Cutting”)
at the National Press Club Ballroom in Washington, D.C., on February 6, 2004.
Speakers:
- Dr. E. Anne Peterson, MD, MPH, Assistant Administrator,
Bureau for Global Health ? USAID
- Mrs. Fatoumata Diakit?, InterAfrican Committee (See remarks below.)
- Dr. Nawal Nour, Physician, 2003 winner of the
MacArthur Genius Award (See remarks below.)
- Dr. Nahid Toubia, Founder and President of RAINBO
- Molly Melching, Tostan Program, Senegal (See remarks below.)
- Kerthio Diarra, member of the Senegalese women?s group
in Malicounda Bambara
Presentations and Remarks
![Photo of Dr. Nawal Nour at the FGC Symposium (National Press Club) presenting on the African Women's Center and its work with immigrant women, the majority of which come from Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081108104304im_/http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/pop/images/photo/Nawal-Nour.jpg) |
SOURCE: USAID
Dr. Nawal Nour at the FGC symposium (National Press Club) presenting on the African Women's Center and its work with immigrant women, the majority of whom come from Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia.
|
Family Planning and HIV Prevention: A Close Look at Kenya – Presentation by Amy E. Pollack, MD, MPH, President, EngenderHealth, at a Congressional Briefing
Regarding FP/HIV Integration [PDF, 267KB ]
Remarks by Mrs. Fatoumata Diakit? [PDF, 121KB]
Remarks by Dr. Nawal Nour [PDF, 85KB]
Remarks by Molly Melching [PDF, 146KB]
|