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31 May 2021: 15:00 Hours Bangladesh Time

PRESS RELEASE

Partners in Population and Development (PPD) and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of Bangladesh has been jointly implementing the maternal mortality reduction project on “Providing Comprehensive, Safe and Appropriate Intervention to Prevent Postpartum Haemorrhage for Reducing Maternal Mortality in Bangladesh” in the Six Upazilas of Gazipur and Manikganj Districts of Bangladesh with financial assistance from the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund under CHINA AID of the Government of China. The MCH Division of the Directorate General of Family Planning (DGFP) has been implementing the project activities through its District and Upazila level offices, while the District Civil Surgeon Offices have been extending crucial assistance to the implementation of the project activities. The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Dhaka has also been extending significant assistance to the project implementation representing the project funding agency of the Government of China. The six selected Upazilas are Kaliganj and Kaliakoire of Gazipur District and Manikgaj Sadar, Saturia, Ghior and Harirampur of Manikganj District.

In addition to myriad of awareness, technical and capacity building activities, one of the most important components of the project is distribution of Misoprostol Tablets and Postnatal Care Kits to the pregnant mothers of the remote rural communities of the above-mentioned Upazilas for prevention of Postpartum Haemorrhage towards reducing maternal mortality rates, one of the commitments made by the Government of Bangladesh through H.E. Minister Zahid  Maleque, Minister of Health and Family Welfare at Nairobi Summit in 2019 on ICPD@25.

Partners in Population and Development (PPD) has already imported the Misoprostol Tablets and Postnatal Care Kits donated by the Government of China under the project framework with gracious support and assistance of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of Bangladesh. PPD will handover the commodities to the Directorate General of Family Planning (DGFP) for their distribution and usage in the project areas.

In this context, a formal Handover Ceremony has been scheduled to be organized on 31 May 2021 at 15:00 hours in the MCH Conference Hall of the DGFP Office in Dhaka. The Handover Ceremony will be held both in-person and virtually. Presided by Dr. Mohammad Sharif, Director of MCH Services of DGFP, the ceremony will be graced by Mrs. Shahan Ara Banu ndc, Director General of DGFP as the Chief Guest, Mr. Nitish Chandra Sarkar, Additional Secretary of the Medical Education and Family Welfare Division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare as the Special Guest. The Handover Ceremony will also be addressed by Mr. Liu Zhenhua, Economic and Commercial Counsellor of the Embassy of China in Dhaka and Mr. Adnene Ben Haj Aissa, Executive Director of Partners in Population and Development (PPD). The Handover Ceremony will be attended by the concerned Deputy Secretary of the Medical Education and Family Welfare Division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, senior officials of DGFP Headquarters and Gazipur and Manikganj Districts including program officials of Partners in Population and Development (PPD).

The Hon. Minister of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) of the Government of Bangladesh H.E. Mr. Zahid Maleque MP will launch a Project on Maternal Mortality Reduction in Bangladesh on 28 September 2020 at 03:30 PM.

As we all know, the Maternal Mortality specifically refers to the mothers dying from pregnancy and childbirth related complications, which is easily preventable if the appropriates measures are undertaken. One of the indicators of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) No. 3.1 calls for reduction of Maternal Mortality to 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030. According to 2017 estimates, 170 mothers per 100,000 live births lost their lives in Bangladesh, albeit still in better position compared to the neighboring countries. While accomplishing rapid socio-economic developments and internationally recognized as an emerging economic tiger, Government of Bangladesh is fiercely determined and aggressively pursuing all possible endeavors to improve public health specially reducing the Maternal Mortality from 170 to 70, or even less as enshrined by the SDG 2030 Agenda. Previously Bangladesh Prime Minister received multiple international awards for achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) before SDGs were adopted.

Partners in Population and Development (PPD), an international Inter-Governmental Organization of 27 developing countries, headquartered in Dhaka, has jointly undertaken a project with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to reduce Maternal Mortality in Bangladesh with the technical and financial support from the Government of China. The Project on: “Providing Comprehensive, Safe and Appropriate Intervention to Prevent Postpartum Hemorrhage for Reducing Maternal Mortality in Bangladesh” is primarily aimed at addressing postpartum hemorrhage, which is the dominant cause of Maternal Mortality in Bangladesh. While the Directorate General of Family Planning (DGFP) will be directly engaged in the project implementation with MOHFW and PPD, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and the Directorate General of Drug Administration DGDA) will extend crucial assistance to the Project.

The project is funded by the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund (SSCAF) of China created under CHINAAID. The fundamental objective of creating SSCAF by China is to help the developing countries to improve lives of their people by accelerated implementation of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030.  While PPD developed the project and secured funding for reducing Maternal Mortality in its member states, Hon. Minister H.E. Mr. Zahid Maleque MP has been instrumental in bringing the project to be implemented first in Bangladesh. The Project will initially be implemented in six Upazilas of Gazipur and Manikganj Districts, the successful experiences of which will later be spread all over Bangladesh. Subsequently, Bangladesh’s successful experiences and lessons learned will also be replicated in other PPD member states in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The project will offer extensive exchange of experiences and expertise between Bangladesh and China and an Expert Group has already been constituted from both the countries to provide technical oversight to the project implementation. This is a concrete example of South-South Cooperation between two friendly developing countries. At the end of the brief ceremony, Hon. Minister H.E. Mr. Zahid Maleque MP and PPD Executive Director Mr. Adnene Ben Haj Aissa will concurrently sign a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the Project implementation.

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Exchange of resources, technology, and knowledge between developing countries, also known as countries of the global South is obvious in 21st century. The wide-ranging framework of South-South Cooperation is for collaboration among sovereign countries of the South in the political, economic, social, cultural, environmental and technical domains. The cooperation may take place involving two or more developing countries; it can take place on a bilateral, regional, sub-regional or interregional basis.

Partners in Population and Development (PPD), the umbrella representation of more than 59%of the world population embodies South-South Cooperation (SSC) as their core strategy for promoting Population, Development and Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR). Perhaps, PPD is the only inter-governmental entity mandated through an inter-governmental charter promoting ‘population diplomacy’ through South-South collaboration.

Global west is facing the challenges of ageing, in the contrary global south is struggling for the adequate investment for young and adolescent who are capturing almost half of the population pyramid within near future. The immediate and the distance variables of population and their development are reliant on some country specific intermediate influence. The framework of SSC could play a pivotal role in those intermediate influences.

Developing countries have the primary responsibility for promoting and implementing South-South Cooperation, not as a substitute for, but rather as a complement to North-South cooperation. Under the umbrella of PPD, 26 developing countries are exercising SSC since 1995 for bringing positive change of people’s life in terms of SRHR and development of women and children.

To address the poverty challenges the leaders of the global community signing 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in next September in 70^th UN assembly. The Goal 17 is about strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development where SSC fits and PPD as an intergovernmental entity will promote the cooperation across the member countries to achieve the realistic goal from SDG17.

To mark the importance of South-South Cooperation, the General Assembly decided to observe this Day on 12 September every year, commemorating the adoption in 1978 of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries. PPD will observe the day with the 59% of the world population is a befitting manner and would like to congratulate the global south for their amazing partnership for bringing positive change in the life of the people of developing countries.

The theme of the 26^th World Population Day is ‘Vulnerable Populations in Emergencies’. Partners in population and Development (PPD) are observing the day with United Nations and other stake holders of the PPD member countries. PPD, the inter-governmental alliance of 26 developing countries of Global South would like to reiterate our solidarity with all the women, children and adolescents in emergencies.

PPD speaks for more than 59% of the world population and PPD is considered as the pivotal advocate for sexual reproductive health rights of the women population of Global South. PPD believes that it is utmost important to raise the awareness about the reproductive health needs of women in every setting; and certainly in population in refugee and displaced, and emergency settings, require special attention and intervention.

PPD would like to draw the attention of the global leaders to the need for increasing support for family planning and reproductive health programs at home and abroad.

On this population day PPD would like to draw the attention toward the distinct need, especially sexual reproductive health needs for women and adolescents in emergency.

Since 1989, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme observed 11^th July as World Population Day and after the inception since 1994, PPD also observes the day in befitting manner. PPD highlights the issues of women and children of the Global South in this day.

“World population day is a reminder to the PPD member countries to pay special attention to the needs of Every Women, Every Child, and Every Adolescents, particularly, the sexual and reproductive needs of Every women and Every adolescents, in emergencies, refugee and displaced settings” said, Dr. Joe Thomas, the Executive Director of PPD.

About PPD:

PPD is an Inter-Governmental organization of 26 developing countries, evolved out of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994 for promoting South-South Cooperation in the field of Reproductive Health, Population, and Development. PPD is representing and advocating for 59% of world’s population. PPD reflects the international acceptance of South-South Cooperation (SSC) as a vital means towards attainment of universal access to Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and sustainable development.

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The secretariat of the 12^th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (CAAP12) is immensely delighted to know that the Ministry of Health and Child Care of the Government of Zimbabwe has signed an agreement with the Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA) to host the 18th International Congress on AIDS in Africa (ICASA) in November 2015.

ICAAP12 Secretariat and Partners in Population and Development (PPD) the co-host of ICAAP12 would like to congratulate H.E. Dr. David Parirenyatwa, the Honourable Minister, Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, Government of Zimbabwe for his visionary leadership for hosting such an important prestigious congress in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe is a founding member of PPD and H. E. Dr. David Parirenyatwa is a Member of PPD Board and PPD secretariat would like to extend all the necessary technical support and cooperation to the organizing body of ICASA.

Partners in population and Development (PPD) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and under the patronage of the Honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh is hosting the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP12) in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 20 to 23 November 2015 in concurrence with the PPD international Inter-Ministerial Conference and annual governance events. As Zimbabwe is the PPD member country, Secretariat expects that the Honourable Minister, Ministry of Health and Child Care of the Government of Zimbabwe will attend PPD’s inert-ministerial conference as well as in ICAAP12.

Submission of abstract portal is already open and will receive abstracts until 20^th of July (please visit the http://www.icaap2015.org/abstracts/abstracts#.VYEuZ1KfzIV for detail). Updates of preparations are available on the facebook page of ICAAP12 (https://www.facebook.com/icaap12).

Media contact: Masuma Billah/ICAAP12 Secretariat, e-mail: masuma@ppdsec.org