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Yesterday I was fortunate enough to attend the ACQUIRE End of Project event this past week...

This past Friday, September 12, 2008 public healthy professionals from organizations through the United States and abroad came together at the George Washington University School of Public Health for the annual USAID Global health Mini-University.  During the day individuals took various...

Our good friends at the Communication Initiative have written a feature review of the INFO Project’s Elements of Family Planning Success Web project. The review, which details the project from start to finish can be found here...

So the time has come to say good bye.  All HIV/AIDS activists, researchers and scientists must say good bye to each other.  This was truly an amazing event and I learned so much and met many interesting individuals.  There has been talk that a future conference may be in the United States, now...

The last full day of sessions was great.  I was able to sit in on interesting lectures covering everything from male circumcision and HIV prevention to HIV prevention among injection drug users in Iran.  The highlight of the day - respondent driven sampling - a new way to recruit research...

So I finally ventured out of the Holiday Inn Tlalplan for dinner - not because of lack of wanting to but because of convenience.  The hotel is about an hour and a half away from the conference and with Mexico City traffic, by the time you get back you’re exhausted and just want to eat at the...

 The day  started with a session entitled “Positive Prevention” which discuss  how highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) can be used as a factor to decrease HIV infections...

So… first I promised to post some pictures from yesterday.  Here are some: Panel from Monday presentation “Linking Sexual and Reproductive Health”  (L to R) Feliclity Daly, Interact Worldwide, Suni Nanda, International AIDS Alliance, India, Malcolm McNeil, DFID, Fiona Petit, International...

So I first must apologize for the lack of actual photos in this first blog piece.  You see, there were strict security requirements to enter the opening ceremony.  The opening ceremony was in a separate spot from the convention in order to accommodate the 25,000 delegates.  All of my bags had...

From guest blogger Vanessa Mitchell, a Program Specialist with the INFO Project, and a Program Officer with CCP/Côte d’Ivoire: On July 17, 2008 in Abidjan, a mini-film called Porteuses de Vie, premiered in front of groups in the fight against HIV/AIDS, as well as the media...

Okay,  so for thos those of that don’t speak Spanish -  Prepárese means get ready...

The INFO Project is proud to announce its three latest publications - Population Reports: New Findings on Contraceptives , Population Reports: Vasectomy: Reaching Out to New Users and INFO Reports: Vasectomy: Tools for Providers...

Here at the INFO Project, we usually post stories about male circumcision and HIV prevention on the Resources for HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health Integration site.  Recently, our colleagues at Plus News  submitted a video for inclusion on the site...

When the leaders of the G8, a group of 8 industrailzed nations (the G8 includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States) meet July 7-9 in Hokkaido for their annual summit  global health will be on the agenda!  Leaders discuss setting targets to tackle the world’s...

Recently I was introduced to a fabulous new tool designed to combat HIV/AIDS related stigma.  “Pos-or-not” sponsored by MTV Networks is a game of sorts that allows user to decide if a man or woman is HIV+ based solely upon his or her looks and a brief description of their personality.  The...

Egypt’s Health Minister Hatem el-Gabali announced an $80 million USD family planning campaign last week with the slogan “two children per family - a chance for a better life.” Since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has come to power he has urged Egyptian families to plan their families and...

Laili Irani, a program specialist at the INFO Project, was recently tasked with researching new findings in reproductive health that came out since the publication of Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers...

If there’s ever a Mount Rushmore memorial built to heroes of family planning, the granite rock faces should be chisled with the features of community health workers like the women in pink, at left...

An article in Ghana’s Public Agenda drew our attention today to a report from Population Reference Bureau (PRB) showing that demand for family planning services is growing around the world...

Recently, generous funding slotted towards the prevention and treatment of HIV have stolen some of the thunder once belonging to global family planning programs...

The Population Reports team has been busy, busy, between researching new findings on contraceptive methods, elements of successful family planning programs, and providing an updated guide to the highly effective but underutilized method of vasectomy...

Recently, I interviewed Dr. Winifrede Mwebesa at the Save the Children office in DC. In her interview for the FP Success Web site, Dr. Mwebesa emphasizes the importance of working with key stakeholders in the community...

Two months ago I landed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to carry out the Africa-based segment of the Elements of Family Planning Success Project. Activities are now in full swing! There is a growing interest in knowledge management in this country and region, so this project is very timely...

The INFO Project is headquartered in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, within the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP)...

Child Lives: Stolen Lives, the NOW on PBS program that screened at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in January, has received the Edward R...

Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jane Bertrand about building monitoring and evaluation into family planning programs. Dr...

Umniah, one of Jordan’s largest mobile phone companies, has signed a Letter of Agreement with the Jordan Health Communication Partnership (JHCP) to support and spread the messages national family planning campaign (Hayati Ahla”- My Life is More Beautiful)...

In a recent interview about the Elements of Family Planning Success, Dr. Alan Bornbusch gives examples of national contraceptive success stories in countries including Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. Dr...

In light of INFO Project’s online discussion forum on female condom programming in low-resource settings, we thought it appropriate to highlight a recent Lancet Global Health Network’s article featuring a report on U.S...

Several INFO staffers journeyed to Washington to attend the two-day FP forum, Strengthening Family Planning Services through Operations Research: Lessons Learned and Future Directions, in the Reagan Rotunda building...