sharenet@dmin, Author at Share-Net Burundi

SESSION SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN! APPLY FOR CONCURENT SESSIONS, MARKETPLACE & POSTERS!

Session submissions are now open for our Concurrent Sessions, Marketplace, & Poster Presentations. All session submissions are due November 19, 2020 at 11:59pm ET and should fall under one of the following themes.

Themes:

Technical: Abstracts for this session will focus on the technical aspects of child and adolescent health and wellbeing including climate change, nutrition, mental health, immunization, child survival, SRHR, and various other topics.
Digital Innovations: This theme includes abstracts highlighting digital innovation tools to improve the health and well-being of children and adolescents, as well as to provide services, this includes online and offline platforms, social media, apps, SMS, and other digital innovations.
Financing & Investment: This theme encompasses the diverse array of funding models and strategies for the sustainable development of child and adolescent health projects. From grassroots crowdfunding to formal impact investment funds, there are countless opportunities to re-envision financing for child and adolescent health and well-being. Abstracts for this session can range from innovative funding approaches to best practices, as well as new financing priorities that have global to country reach.
Partnership & Engagement: This theme focuses on cross-sectoral partnerships and engagement for child and adolescent health research, advocacy, implementation, and financing in the next decade. This theme will focus on how we can break down silos to come together for improved child and adolescent health outcomes and how we can elevate our advocacy for measurable change.
Humanitarian Development Nexus / Fragility & Conflict: Abstracts for this session will focus on child and adolescent health and well-being in humanitarian, fragile and conflict settings and may focus on promising approaches, research, communications and advocacy campaigns, project results, innovation, best practices, Skills Development, policy changes, innovative ideas, or challenges/proposed solutions.
COVID-19: Children and adolescents have not escaped the pandemic unscathed, the pandemic has disrupted the provision of many health services and affected their well-being. In this theme, we will include abstracts that address the intersection of COVID-19 and children and adolescents, including policies, programs, research, evidence, etc.

*Cross-cutting themes: We encourage the inclusion of cross-cutting themes that can be incorporated not only in the presentations but also through speakers. These may include disability inclusion, gender, equity, racial equity and justice, social justice, human rights, socio-economic determinants of health, SDGs and others.

For more details about the event and others, follow the link https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/5993784/Concurrent-Session-Submissions-GHPC21

BULLETIN NOVEMBRE – DECEMBRE |N°. 6| 2019

Foire scientifique pour le partage des connaissances sur la Santé Sexuelle et Reproductive des Adolescents et Jeunes

Au Burundi, les adolescents et jeunes sont confrontés à plusieurs défis en matière de leur santé sexuelle et reproductive. La plupart rencontre des obstacles dans l’accès à l’information avec des possibilités limitées d’accès aux services dont ils ont besoin. C’est dans ce cadre que le Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Lutte contre le Sida en collaboration avec Share Net Burundi a organisé le 18 décembre 2019 une foire de partage des connaissances sur la santé sexuelle et reproductive des adolescents et jeunes.

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Contraceptive eligibility for women at high risk of HIV

1 BACKGROUND

Access to sexual and reproductive health services and information, including a comprehensive range of contraceptive methods, is fundamental to the rights and well-being of women and adolescent girls (1–4). There is a wide range of hormonal and non-hormonal modern contraceptive methods providing substantial individual and public health benefits. A core part of the work of the World Health Organization (WHO) is the development and maintenance of up-to-date, evidence-based guidance on contraceptive safety for individuals with particular medical conditions or medically relevant characteristics (5). The Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use (the MEC), fifth edition, offers national policy-makers and family planning programmes a comprehensive set of recommendations on the medical safety of contraceptive methods, allowing for the informed development of national policies, protocols and programmes (5). Global guidance about medical safety and eligibility facilitates the removal of unnecessary medical barriers to contraception.
For over 20 years, the MEC has been used by countries to maximize safety and improve the quality of contraceptive care offered. Guidance about safety is kept up to date through continuous monitoring and reviews of published literature. In 2015, WHO released the fifth edition of the MEC (5). This edition contains more than 2000 recommendations for 25 different contraceptive methods, within the context of more than 80 medical conditions or medically relevant personal characteristics. Depending on the individual, more than one condition may need to be considered when making an informed contraceptive choice (5). The recommendations in the MEC are based on several considerations, including whether the use of a contraceptive method worsens the medical condition or creates
additional health risks, and whether the condition makes the contraceptive method less effective (5).
The MEC is part of a set of tools aiming to improve contraceptive coverage and care throughout the world. The MEC informs decisions about who might use a particular contraceptive method, through information and guidance about the safety and appropriateness of contraceptive care. The Selected practice recommendations for contraceptive use (the SPR) provides guidance on how to safely and effectively use various contraceptive methods (6). WHO produces a range of tools to support the use and implementation of contraceptive guidance, such as the MEC wheel and the Global handbook for providers (7, 8).
Since 1996, the MEC has applied a four-category scale to indicate medical eligibility for particular contraceptive methods in the presence of particular conditions or individual characteristics (e.g. at high risk of HIV). For each condition or characteristic, contraceptive methods are placed into one of four numbered categories: 1. A condition for which there is no restriction for the use of contraceptive method. 2. A condition where the advantages of using the method generally outweigh the theoretical or proven risks. 3. A condition where the theoretical or proven risks usually outweigh the advantages of using the method. 4. A condition which represents an unacceptable health risk if the contraceptive method is used.