Common Ground Asia-Pacific Sexual & Reproductive Health Matters Network Peace Scholarship
Pacific Projects
Common Ground is an awareness raising and advocacy project set up to advance the Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). Common Ground is an alliance between: * ARHA; * Friends of the Earth; and * Sexual Health & Family Planning Australia (SH&FPA).
The Common Ground project aims to:
Common Ground has recently launched a traveling photo exhibition, called Common Ground: visions shared. The photos were taken in Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea and illustrate the intersecting issues of population, reproductive health, the environment and the Millennium Development Goals.
Common Ground: visions shared
This is joint project between ARHA and GenderHealth at the University of NSW. The aim of the network is to increase information sharing and discussion in the area of sexual and reproductive health in both Australia and the broader Asia Pacific region.
The e-newsletter provides information on upcoming conferences, reminds participants of calls for papers, posts recently published papers or links to papers and provides a platform for interaction.
Ultimately this project hopes to increase Australia’s presence and promote Australian expertise at major international conferences as well as provide a vehicle for academics to learn of the work currently being undertaken in the region on sexual and reproductive health.
One of the major elements of this project is the regular e-newsletter sent to subscribers. Please see below for previous issues of the APSRHM E-Newsletter. If you are interested in joining this network then please email apsrhm@arha.org.au
APSRHM Issue 4 August/September 2006
APSRHM Issue 3 June/July 2006
APSRHM Issue 2 April/May 2006
APSRHM Issue 1 March 2006
On International Women's Day 2006 ARHA and UNIFEM announced that we will be jointly sponsoring two East Timorese women to participate in the Peace Scholarship Program which provides opportunities to study abroad in Australia for one or two semesters. The two East Timorese women will study a health related course at an Australian University.
More details to be released soon...
In 1999, ARHA began exploring options for developing projects in the Pacific.
ARHA ran an international program to further the aims of the ICPD by working in partnership with Pacific Island NGOs on public education programs on reproductive health, reproductive rights and sexuality education. Support was provided to several Pacific countries but the main focus was in Papua New Guinea, which along with Solomon Islands has the poorest reproductive status in the Pacific region. Women's literacy is low, maternal mortality high, contraceptive prevalence low and domestic violence is common. HIV/AIDS is increasing rapidly in Papua New Guinea with new cases being diagnosed daily in the highlands.
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