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Women’s Health and Responsible Parenthood
The Federation’s Committee on Responsible Parenthood undertakes promotion and prevention projects related to reproductive health and responsible parenthood. Committee co-chairs Eugene B. Brody and Henry P. David participated in a symposium in Yemen in 2000. In 2001 the Yemen Psychological Association distributed a booklet on Reproductive Behavior, Rights, Health and Responsible Parenthood which included the conference proceedings and supplementary material. The text, in English with summaries in Arabic, was edited by members of the WFMH Committee: Eugene Brody, Henry David, Ma’an Barry (a current WFMH Board member) and the conference organizer, Hassan Kassim Khan (a WFMH Board member until July 2001). A guest speaker at the Yemen conference, Gulnara Kuzibaeva, invited Dr. David to arrange a similar program in Uzbekistan, and Dr. Brody also agreed to participate. Drs. Kuzibaeva and Barry met with Henry David and Eugene Brody in Washington, D.C., in March 2001. An expert panel was assembled, and arrangements were made to hold seminars in Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara in October, 2001. After the attacks on September 11 these plans had to be cancelled. This year, however, Dr. David is working to reschedule the seminars for September 2002.
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