PPD
and ICMH Bangladesh organized the International
Fellowship Training Course on Reproductive Health
and Safe Motherhood
at ICMH Premises in Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Date
: 15-24 February, 2008 |
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Capacity building is
viewed as fundamentally instrumental for efficient,
result and impact oriented implementation of population
and development programs in order to attain ICPD Goals
and MDGs towards sustainable development of the developing
countries. PPD attaches paramount importance in continued
capacity building of professionals of member states
engaged in implementation of population and development
programs.
Participants
of the International Fellowship Training Course
South-South
Fellowship has been proved to be one of the most effective
and cost-efficient modality for capacity building of
the individuals and institutions of the member states.
Since its inception in 1998, the South-South Fellowship
program of PPD strengthened capacity of over 400 professionals
and 30 institutions in the PPD member states. Different
member country institutions are offering fellowship
in their replicable expertise to the professionals of
other member states. In this program the sharing, transfer
and exchange of knowledge, experience, expertise and
technology is reciprocal. Both the professionals of
the host institution and the participants benefit from
each other in the process of providing and receiving
the training programs.
Partners
in Population and Development (PPD) and Institute of
Child and Mother Health of Bangladesh conducted a 10-day
International Fellowship Training Course on Reproductive
Health and Safe Motherhood from 15 – 24 February
2008 at ICMH Compound in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 12 international
participants from China, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan,
Tunisia, Thailand, Uganda and Zimbabwe
The
sessions were conducted in three modules such as Reproductive
Health, Safe Motherhood and Adolescents Sexual and RH
by a pool of multinational resource persons constituted
with the most senior faculties of ICMH and other national
institutes as well as internationally acclaimed public
health specialists based in the country.
Module
1 on Reproductive Health covered essential
topics such as population growth trends and fertility
transition at global, regional and national level and
their policy impacts; reproductive health concepts,
definition and components; strategies for mainstreaming
of gender perspective in RH and FP programs; STD/RTI
and HIV/AIDS prevalence trends, policy issues and implication
of HIV/AIDS integration into RH program.
Module
2 on Safe Motherhood focused on a wide range
of issues such as concept and content of safe motherhood
initiatives; global and regional perspectives of safe
motherhood with multi-country experience; country experience
on safe motherhood program through community-based approaches;
skilled birth attendant program in different countries;
quality of care in safe motherhood services and access
to safe delivery care; emergency obstetric care (EOC)
concept, content and level; Management of unsafe abortion
and complications; role of rural midwife, community
and family for safe motherhood program; available tools
for safe motherhood (mother-baby package, home-based
maternal record system, risk assessment, maternal death
audit etc); reflection on ANC service package; approach
in qualitative and quantitative coverage; reflections
on PNC and safe delivery services; challenges and opportunities
in maternity care services; service delivery at community
level;
Module
3 on Adolescents Sexual and RH covered topics
such as global perceptions about adolescents Sexual
and RH; adolescents’ sexual behaviour in view
of STD and HIV/AIDS and reproductive health; sexual
health education for adolescents through educational
institutes, youth programs, parents, friends and other
peer groups.
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