Annual joint HQ-RC-CO meeting on maternal, newborn and reproductive health : report of the meeting, Hua Hin, Thailand, 18-19 July 2011
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WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
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This is a report of the two-day annual joint planning meeting for the two programmes - Making Pregnancy Safer (MPS) and Reproductive Health Research (RHR) - involving staff at the three levels of the Organization (Headquarters, Regional Office and country offices). This meeting is held annually to report on activities of the past year, discuss technical updates and agree on and plan activities for the coming year. Technical updates were provided by staff from Reproductive Health and Research and Making Pregnancy Safer programmes in WHO headquarters. This year, an additional agenda item was the new area of concern of sexual and reproductive health of persons with disabilities (PWD), A brief presentation was also made on the menstrual regulation programme in Bangladesh. From the report of activities carried out in the 2010-2011 biennium, it can be surmised that the programmes at all three levels have performed well and met targets in their respective workplans.