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Global Reproductive Health: Home |
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strongly embraces a vision of a world that is safer and healthier, and where quality of
life is enhanced, through the prevention and control of disease, disability,
and injury. CDC's Division of Reproductive Health (DRH) possesses a unique combination of
expertise, partnerships, and commitment to reproductive health improvement
that is essential for ensuring maximal impact of resources invested in
assisting developing nations. Global reproductive health is one of five
Reproductive Health priority areas, demonstrating the importance DRH
attaches to this topic. CDC's Division of Reproductive Health has been
working in the developing world for over 30 years, providing support and
technical assistance and building capacity in a broad array of areas of
reproductive health. Global reproductive health activities focus on
improving infant health, optimizing maternal health, enhancing women's
reproductive health, and preventing unintended pregnancy in populations in
all parts of the world, particularly in developing countries. Within each of
these areas a variety of activities are being carried out, some of which are
briefly described here.
Partnerships in Global Health
CDC's Division of Reproductive Health has worked with a
broad range of partners internationally. A long-standing
agreement with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has supported many of the Division’s activities in
reproductive health
surveys, refugee health,
RH epidemiology, and HIV/AIDS. There has been close
collaboration with several United Nations agencies, including WHO, UNICEF,
the World Bank, and others. The Division of Reproductive Health has partnered
with other agencies within the U.S. government, including the State
Department, sister agencies within the Department of Health and Human
Services, and other centers and divisions within CDC. The Division of
Reproductive Health
has also partnered globally with a wide assortment of other organizations
too numerous to list here, but include non-governmental organizations,
foundations (including, of course, the
CDC Foundation*), universities, and
national governments.
Providing Global Reproductive Health
Leadership
CDC staff provides
leadership in many ways in the area of global reproductive health. Some of
these current roles include:
- Serving on an assortment of expert committees and advisory groups for WHO, including the Initiative
for Maternal Mortality Programme Assessment.
- Providing technical assistance to USAID for a variety of review and advisory activities.
- Providing assistance on the WHO guidelines for qualitative investigation of maternal deaths.
- Creating and maintaining the evidence-base for WHO's global family planning guidance.
- Serving as a member of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and
Child Health. A consortium of the world's leading maternal, newborn
and child health advocates, working to intensify global action to reduce
maternal, newborn and child mortality and morbidity.
- Providing assistance to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
and Latin American governments to monitor maternal morbidity and
mortality.
Reproductive Health in the United
States-Mexico Border Region
Publications on International Surveys, Reports, and Studies
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Page last reviewed:
7/29/08
Page last modified: 2/20/08
Content source: Division
of Reproductive Health,
National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion |
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