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The #NairobiSummit kicks off today! We have you covered with all things #SRHR, starting with a new Editorial commemorating 25 years since the first #ICPD in Cairo hubs.ly/H0lKC6Z0 #ICPD25

@NairobiSummit Our Editorial highlights the opportunities for the #NairobiSummit as:
- an important rallying opportunity, in light of upcoming US elections
- a chance for governments to make economic, political & practical commitments to implement the #ICPD Programme hubs.ly/H0lKC6Z0

@NairobiSummit The Cairo #ICPD was a transformative event, shifting the focus of the development agenda towards sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing, individual rights, and #genderequality. Our Editorial from 1994 marked the occasion hubs.ly/H0lKC7h0

@NairobiSummit The ambitious #ICPD Programme of Action remains unfulfilled. Listen to @UNFPA Executive Director Natalia Kanem discuss the unfinished business of Cairo and her hopes for the #NairobiSummit hubs.ly/H0lKCK40
#ICPD25 #SRHR

@NairobiSummit @UNFPA @Atayeshe The Lancet has a long-standing dedication to supporting work that contributes to the ability of women and girls around the world to live safer, healthier and more empowered lives. During #NairobiSummit, we’ll be highlighting some major projects on #SRHR & #genderequality #ICPD25

@NairobiSummit @UNFPA @Atayeshe Making sure women throughout the world can give birth in a health facility, in the presence of a midwife, is the best strategy for reducing #maternalmortality worldwide, according to a landmark Series of papers from 2006 hubs.ly/H0lKCKv0 #ICPD25 #NairobiSummit

@NairobiSummit @UNFPA @Atayeshe @annmstarrs @profwendygraham @ProfOonaC @kirstimalterud @richardhorton1 Our six-part sexual & reproductive health Series argued “we have access to the information and means to make sexual and reproductive health for all a reality” hubs.ly/H0lKCKV0 #ICPD25 #SRHR #NairobiSummit

@NairobiSummit @UNFPA @Atayeshe @annmstarrs @profwendygraham @ProfOonaC @kirstimalterud @richardhorton1 @DrDorothyShaw @GarethThomasMP @feminineupheave @nicolamlow A Series of papers on #FamilyPlanning outlines the links between contraception, health, demographic change, #climatechange, and #humanrights hubs.ly/H0lKC_F0 #ICPD25 #SRHR #NairobiSummit

@NairobiSummit @UNFPA @Atayeshe @annmstarrs @profwendygraham @ProfOonaC @kirstimalterud @richardhorton1 @DrDorothyShaw @GarethThomasMP @feminineupheave @nicolamlow @bobjcarr @melindagates @andrewjonathanm @rajshah @MamaDaktari @aezeh @DrTedros A Series on #ViolenceAgainstWomen & girls argues that prevention is possible and proposes 5 key recommendations and indicators to track progress hubs.ly/H0lKCLd0 #GBV #FGM #ICPD25 #NairobiSummit

@NairobiSummit @UNFPA @Atayeshe @annmstarrs @profwendygraham @ProfOonaC @kirstimalterud @richardhorton1 @DrDorothyShaw @GarethThomasMP @feminineupheave @nicolamlow @bobjcarr @melindagates @andrewjonathanm @rajshah @MamaDaktari @aezeh @DrTedros @CarterCenter @MichaelGLFlood @UNDP @CWattsLSHTM A 2016 Series of six papers brings our knowledge of #maternalhealth, its epidemiology, successes, and current failings together, and at a crucial time within the #SDG framework hubs.ly/H0lKCP80 #ICPD25 #NairobiSummit

@NairobiSummit @UNFPA @Atayeshe @annmstarrs @profwendygraham @ProfOonaC @kirstimalterud @richardhorton1 @DrDorothyShaw @GarethThomasMP @feminineupheave @nicolamlow @bobjcarr @melindagates @andrewjonathanm @rajshah @MamaDaktari @aezeh @DrTedros @CarterCenter @MichaelGLFlood @UNDP @CWattsLSHTM @mkruk Last year, a 3-part Series on optimising #CaesareanSection use reviews global epidemiology & disparities, health effects for women & children, and lays out evidence-based interventions & actions to reduce unnecessary #CSections hubs.ly/H0lKD3p0 #NairobiSummit #ICPD25

@NairobiSummit @UNFPA @Atayeshe @annmstarrs @profwendygraham @ProfOonaC @kirstimalterud @richardhorton1 @DrDorothyShaw @GarethThomasMP @feminineupheave @nicolamlow @bobjcarr @melindagates @andrewjonathanm @rajshah @MamaDaktari @aezeh @DrTedros @CarterCenter @MichaelGLFlood @UNDP @CWattsLSHTM @mkruk @FIGOHQ The @Guttmacher-Lancet @SRHRCommission outlines a bold and comprehensive #SRHRAgenda hubs.ly/H0lKCPR0 #ICPD25 #NairobiSummit #SRHR @NairobiSummit

@NairobiSummit @UNFPA @Atayeshe @annmstarrs @profwendygraham @ProfOonaC @kirstimalterud @richardhorton1 @DrDorothyShaw @GarethThomasMP @feminineupheave @nicolamlow @bobjcarr @melindagates @andrewjonathanm @rajshah @MamaDaktari @aezeh @DrTedros @CarterCenter @MichaelGLFlood @UNDP @CWattsLSHTM @mkruk @FIGOHQ @Guttmacher @SRHRCommission "It’s not just in the sphere of #SRHR where we need to have influence but in the broader narrative about the role of science & to push back against a current climate where facts seem to have less importance than they once did” Profile: Herminia Palacio hubs.ly/H0lKD3Y0