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Sexual and reproductive health and rights: central to health, well-being and sustainable futures

30 April 2024 13:15 – 14:30 ET
Conference Room 7, UN Headquarters, New York, USA

As the world reflects, celebrates and looks ahead for continued commitment to the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action, this side event will highlight the importance of reinvigorating and recalibrating the unfinished sexual and re🉐productive health 🏅and rights (SRHR) agenda. 

This event will champion evidence, experience and action to advance SRHR as central to health and sustainable development, and examine inclusive solutions to address wider challenges of stigma, inequalities and political division.

Speakers include:

  • Atul Gawande, Assistant Administrator for Global Health, USAID
  • Yolanda Varela, General Director of the National Center for Gender Equity and Reproductive Health, Mexico 
  • Chris Carter, Deputy Director, Head of Human Development Dept., Global Health, FCDO
  • Bunyarit Sukrat, Director of the Bureau of Reproductive Health, Dept. of Health, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
  • Pascale Allotey, Director, HRP and WHO
  • Moderated discussion with Monserrath López, WOSM, Guatemala, Levi Singh, SRHR Africa Trust, South Africa, Hon. Apsana Begum, Labour MP, United Kingdom