On December 19-20, 2016 educational seminar for representatives of regional and national media on "How to professionally cover reproductive health and family planning so that your site and newspaper are read and the TV programs – are watched!” will take place in Kyiv. Event will be held by WHFP as part of the USAID «Reproductive Health in Ukraine" Project implementation. During seminar, journalists will have a unique opportunity to interact with leading national RH / FP experts and get "first hand" information on the priorities and pressing issues of reproductive health and family planning, the status of legal regulation of this area and urgent need for approval of the new State program "Reproductive health of the nation" for the period of 2017-2021, its major trends and challenges which is essential, particularly for regions, especially under decentralization.
Two expert group meetings as part of the USAID «Reproductive Health in Ukraine" Project implementation to develop the Concept and the draft of the new State Program "Reproductive Health of the Nation" until 2021 will be held by WHFP in November. Meetings are aimed to finalize these two important documents as well as to revise the list of tasks and activities within the Program necessary for its further financial calculation.
In February and March 2017 WHFP experts within SPECSI project implementation will met with local media in Chernihiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankovsk and Poltava during Press Club meetings devoted to the topic: "Will Ukrainian state guarantee safe motherhood and childhood for the next 5 years (in the absence of the new State Program" Reproductive Health of the Nation" for the period of 2017-2021)"? Meetings with local journalists will be organized by WHFP Charity Foundation in partnership with local press club within implementation of the USAID «Reproductive Health in Ukraine" Project.
Meetings are aimed to inform local media representatives about current issues and problems in the sphere of reproductive health and family planning in Ukraine, as well as a part of advocacy campaign in support of the prompt approval of the Concept and the new State Program "Reproductive health of the nation" for the period of 2017-2021.
In October-November 2016 performances of the social theater on RH and safe behavior issues for the teenage audience will take place in Kherson and Chernihiv. Performances audience will include pupils of boarding schools and rural schoolchildren. Activities will be held within the Project on "Ensuring Adolescents' Access to Comprehensive Information on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights" implemented by Woman Health & Family Planning Foundation under support of the International Planned Parenthood Federation / IPPF. The project’s partners in the regions are "Successful Woman" and "Zhmenya" NGOs.
On October 4-7, 2016 the 5-th School of Modern Mammography will take place in Lviv on the basis of Dniester Hotel.
The purpose of this program is to train Ukrainian radiologists, specializing in X-ray diagnosis of breast diseases.
This training is provided fully in line with the existing European training programs and is performed by leading specialists of the University of Leuven (Belgium), Institute of Nuclear Medicine and X-ray diagnosis of the national AMS, Kyiv City Clinical Oncology Center and Kherson Oncology Center. Event will be organized by WHFP in partnership with AVON Company within "Together Against Breast Cancer" Social Program