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Bixby Presenters at African Population Conference

November 30, 2015 / Tomomi Mori / News

The Bixby Center is pleased to announce that we will be attending the 7th Annual African Population Conference this year, jointly hosted by the Government of South Africa and the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) from November 30 – December 4th. Bixby investigators will be presenting their research findings through both oral and poster presentations.

*Check out the Bixby UAPS flyer and the UAPS site for more details!*

Our presenters for APC are as follows: 

ORAL PRESENTATIONS:

Tuesday, December 1st 

  • Session: Unmet Need
    • Chair: Ndola Prata, MD, MSc | Bixby Director
  • Session: Opportunities for Harnessing the Demographic Dividend in the SDG Era in Africa
    • Access to family planning and women’s health 
    • Presenter: Ndola Prata, MD, MSc
  • Session: Strategies to Improve Contraceptive Use
    • Expanding contraceptive delivery: findings from Mozambique’s first pilot assessing the safety and accessibility of community-based distribution of injectable contraceptives through community health workers 
    • Presenter: Ana Jacinto
    • Co-authors: Ndola Prata, Cassimo Bique, Momade Usta, Mohamed Riaz Mobaracaly, Rita Badiani

Thursday, December 3rd  

  • Session: Analyzing Commodity Availability
    • Promoting confidence: a case for training CHWs to become social marketers of injectable contraceptives in Ethiopia 
    • Presenter: Ndola Prata, MD, MSc
    • Co-authors: Karen Weidert, Amanuel Guessessew

 

POSTER PRESENTATIONS:

Tuesday, December 1st

  • Poster Session 2
    • Varying family planning strategies across age categories: differences in factors associated with current modern contraceptive use among young and adult women in Luanda, Angola 
    • Presenter: Ndola Prata, MD, MSc
    • Co-authors: Suzanne Bell, Karen Weidert, Benjamin Andrade, Adelaide Carvalho, Isilda Neves
    • Please see the abstract and poster for this presentation here!

Thursday, December 3rd

  • Poster Session 3 
    • Partner support for family planning and modern contraceptive use in Luanda, Angola 
    • Presenter: Ndola Prata, MD, MSc
    • Co-authors: Suzanne Bell, Ashley Fraser, Adelaide Carvalho, Isilda Neves, Benjamin Nieto-Andrade
    • Please see the abstract and poster for this presentation here!

 


UCGHI Center of Expertise on Women’s Health & Empowerment Call for Papers

We are accepting submissions on Women’s Empowerment, Pregnancy & Childbirth for a special journal supplement in BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth.

Deadline for submitting the “Intent to Submit Form” is due December 15, 2015.

Please see the full Call for Papers for further details including important deadlines and other submission instructions at:

< http://tinyurl.com/BMC-CallForPapers >

If you have additional questions, please contact COE WHE coordinator, Chiao-Wen Lan

(chiaowen@g.ucla.edu).

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