REGIONAL MEETING OF THE IBP INITIATIVE – LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
RESPONDING TO UNMET NEED FOR CONTRACEPTION WITH EVIDENCE AND HIGH IMPACT
PRACTICES IN ZIKA TIMES
INNOVATING, INCREASING EFFORTS AND ASSURING RIGHTS
13 TO 15 JUNE, LIMA, PERU
TIME
TOPIC
RESPONSIBLE
MONDAY 13 JUNE, 2016
Magdalena Bonasso - CLAP/WR
Vilma Zotareli - FIGO
Representative - MoH - Peru
Andrés De Francisco - PAHO
Esther Tahrir – IBP
Mary Lyn Gaffield - WHO
Raúl González Montero
Peru PAHO/WHO
08:00 – 08:30
Participants’ Registration
08:30 – 08:45
Welcoming Remarks
08:45 – 09:05
The IBP consortium
Implementing Best Practices in FP/RH
09:05 – 09:25
Inequities in LAC in times of SGDs
Ados May - Secretariat IBP
Andrés De Francisco – PAHO
Presented by Suzanne Serruya,
CLAP/WR
Unmet need for Contraception in Latin America and the Caribbean
 Trends in contraceptive use in LAC
09:25 – 11:00
 Access to modern contraceptive methods in
LAC
Ann Biddlecom- UN Department of
Economic and Social Affairs,
Population Division
Ricardo Vernon– Foro LAC
 Post abortion Family Planning
Luis Távara - FIGO
Moderator: Rodolfo Gómez Ponce de León CLAP/WR
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break (9th Floor Terrace)
WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use. Fifth edition
Family Planning Guidelines: New Recommendations to guide programs and services
Technical Panel on the new World Health Organization guide
 WHO Cornerstones for Family Planning
 Process to develop the fifth edition
 New recommendations for women in the
immediate postpartum period
 Recommendations for adolescents
 Recommendations for women with high risk
of HIV, living with HIV and women taking
ARVs
 Recommendations for new contraceptive
methods
Mary Lyn Gaffield - WHO
María del Carmen Cravioto –
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias
Médicas y Nutrición Salvador
Zubirán
Q&A Discussion
11:15 – 13:15
New WHO digital tool:
Compendium for postpartum family planning
Introduction
Mary Lyn Gaffield - WHO
María del Carmen Cravioto -
 Demonstration
 Practice
INCMNSZ
Recommendations on Selected Practice for Contraceptive Use, third edition
New WHO Recommendations
Mary Lyn Gaffield - WHO
 Updated recommendations for the provision
of services in contraceptive programs
 Key changes in the guide
María del Carmen Cravioto -
Q&A Discussion
13:15 – 14:15
Lunch (9th Floor Terrace)
INCMNSZ
Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use Wheel
 Introduction to the 2015 version
14:15 – 15:00
 Demonstration of Key characteristics
 Practice
Rodolfo Gómez Ponce de Leon
CLAP/WR
María del Carmen Cravioto,
INCMNSZ
 Adapting the WHO tool
Q&A Discussion
Implementing eligibility criteria in Latin America
 El Salvador
Esmeralda Ramírez
15:00 – 16:15
 Honduras
Carlos Claudino
 Peru
Daniel Aspilcueta
 Uruguay
Rafael Aguirre
Q&A Discussion
Moderator: Alma Virginia Camacho, UNFPA
Coffee Break (9th Floor Terrace)
16:15 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:00
PAHO’s Report on Adolescent Reproductive
Health in Latin America
Sonja Caffe - PAHO
Q&A Discussion
Share Fair in Family Planning
 High Impact Practices
 Scale up Tools ExpandNet
17:00 – 18:00
Mariela Rodríguez - CARE
Juan Felipe Jaramillo - IPPF
Diva Moreno - MoH Colombia
Ados May - IBP
 Training Resource Package - TRP
Mary Lyn Gaffield –WHO
Lisa Noguchi - Jhpiego
 New Contraception Technologies
Alyssa Bruhn - USAID
 Tools for Healthy Families, Communities
and Districts
 Tools for Programs and services for
Adolescents and youth
Evelyn Torres – MSH - Peru
Esther Tahrir, PHI
Juana Esther Barajas – Tan Ux’il
Moderator: Ados May, IBP/WHO
18:00 – 18:15
Closing Remarks – First Day
Suzanne Serruya – CLAP/WR
TUESDAY 14 JUNE, 2016
ZIKA Epidemic characteristics and reflections
 Epidemiology, distribution and at risk
populations
08:00 – 09:15
Sylvain Aldighieri - PAHO
 Pregnancy and congenital syndrome
Suzanne Serruya – CLAP/WR
 Reproductive Health
Rodolfo Gómez – CLAP/WR
Q&A Discussion
Moderator Raúl González Montero- PAHO Peru
Scaling-up access to contraception methods in the Region
 Programatic strategies to respond to the Zika
epidemic
 50 Years of Family Planning in LAC
09:15 – 10:30
Jennifer Slotnick- USAID
Jane Bertrand – Tulane Univ.
 Implementing High Impact Practices in
Family Planning
Rufino Luna
MoH – Mexico
Supplying Change Management
Centralized Procurement of commodities and
supply security
Karem Morales
MoH - Guatemala
Financing commodities and services:
Observatory OSAR
Q&A Discussion
Moderator: Ariel Karolinski – PAHO Argentina
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 13:00
Coffee Break (9th Floor Terrace)
Calculating and Ensuring contraceptive methods
for vulnerable populations
Federico Tobar - UNFPA
Q&A Discussion
13:00 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
Lunch (9th Floor Terrace)
CHOICE Project: Why Long-Acting Reversible
Contraception? (LARCs)
Q&A Discussion
Gina M. Secura
University of Washington
Expanding the use of LARCs - Project FIGO
15:00 –16:00  Presentation of the Project in LAC
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Brazil
El Salvador
Cristiao Rosas
Jorge Cruz
CoffeeBreak (9th Floor Terrace)
Expanding the use of LARCs - Project FIGO (continued)
16:00 – 16:15
16:15 – 17:00
Luis Távara - FIGO
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Guatemala
Honduras
Peru
Miriam Bethancourt
Ana Ligia Chinchilla
Enrique Guevara
Q&A Discussion
Moderator: Marina Gil - FIGO
17:00 - 17:30
Vulnerable populations access to modern
contraceptive methods in LAC
17:30 – 17:45
Closing Remarks Second day
Alma Virginia Camacho - UNFPA
Suzanne Serruya – CLAP/WR
WEDNESDAY 15 JUNE, 2016
High Impact Practices and Innovations in access to contraceptive methods for
vulnerable populations
 Youth leadership to improve family planning
access
09:00 – 10:30
Juana Esther Barajas – Tan Ux’il
Esther Tahrir - PHI
 Designing services adapted to youth
 Social Enterprise and Innovations in Service
delivery to vulnerable populations
 Accountability and Social Mobilization in
rural indigenous communities
Sheoran Butependra - YTH
Juan Felipe Jaramillo - IPPF - WHR
Edgar Medina – MSH - Peru
Q&A Discussion
Moderadotors: Rodolfo Gómez Ponce de León CLAP/WR & Jane Bertrand – Tulane University
10:30 - 11:00
CoffeeBreak (9th Floor Terrace)
11:00 - 13:00
Workshop: Preparation of the adjusted action plan for the countries to guarantee
access to modern contraceptives in the Region
Plenary: Presentation of each country’s plan
Moderators: Rodolfo Gomez Ponce de Leon, CLAP/WR & Ados May IBP
13:00 – 13:20
13:30 – 14:30
Closing Remarks
Esther Tahrir, IBP
Suzanne Serruya, CLAP/WR
Lunch (9th Floor Terrace)