Reproductive Health Roundtable

Reproductive health is a critical component of MLI’s overall program and of interest to many countries in Africa, many of which provide a rich source of experience and lessons for various approaches to reproductive health policy.  To help share these insights, MLI hosted a Reproductive Health Roundtable on November 18, 2009 during the International Conference on Family Planning, held in Kampala, Uganda from November 15-19. The MLI Roundtable focused on exploring the major factors that contributed to Rwanda’s advances in reproductive health and the increase in family planning prevalence and the current challenges facing MLI’s focus countries.  The importance of political leadership, innovative health financing, and strong RH technical programs at the national level were all identified as key to advancing RH, particularly family planning, at the country level.