Symposium 2: Cross Stream Session - Progress Towards the SDGs in the Asia Pacific
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| Thursday, November 1, 2018 |
| 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM |
| Princes Ballroom B |
Details
This session will focus on strategies to put sexual and reproductive health on government agendas, focus action and set targets, integrate sexual and reproductive health services and propel momentum towards the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the Asia Pacific region. In particular SDGs focused combating relevant communicable diseases and on ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services by 2030, as well as increasing health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce and their capacity for early warning, risk reduction and management of emergencies, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States.
Learning objectives: This session will enable participants to make progress towards sexual and reproductive related SDGs by: * engaging politicians * planning interventions to build the capacity of the health workforce * implementing standards to improve the performance of integrated programming
Speaker
Charles Chauvel
Team Leader Inclusive Political Processes, Governance and Peacebuilding
United Nations Development Programme
Dr Kristen Beek
University of Technology
Dr Alec Ekeroma
Head, Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Pacific Society for Reproductive Health
Q&A
Q&A
1:20 PM - 1:30 PMBiography
Chair
Angela Dawson
Professor Public Health
University of Technology Sydney
Naoko Ishikawa
Coordinator (HIV, Hepatitis and STI Unit, Division of Communicable Diseases)
World Health Organisation Regional Office for the Western Pacific
