About the Meeting Sponsors

The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP) is a non-profit membership association comprised of highly qualified and committed experts in reproductive health. Its members are professionals who provide reproductive health services and education, conduct reproductive health research, and influence reproductive health policy, and they include physicians, advanced practice clinicians (nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and physician assistants), researchers, educators, pharmacists, and other professionals in reproductive health. The organization reaches this broad range of health care professionals both in the US and abroad with education and information about reproductive health science, practice, and policy. www.arhp.org

Planned Parenthood^® Federation of America (PPFA) is the world’s largest voluntary reproductive health care organization. PPFA provides comprehensive reproductive and related health care services, advocates public policies that support its mission, provides educational programs and promotes research and technology in reproductive health care. PPFA’s National Medical Committee hosts its annual meeting as part of Reproductive Health 2007. www.ppfa.org

Society for the Advancement of Reproductive Care (SARC) is an international organization established exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, including professional and public education on matters of reproductive health, including (but not limited to), education and research related to human sexuality, contraception, infertility, and sexually transmitted disease. The Society subscribes to the following statement adopted by the United Nations World Population Conference held in Cairo in 1994: “Reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well- being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes. Reproductive health therefore implies that people are able to have a satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so. Implicit in this last condition are the right of men and women to be informed and to have access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of family planning of their choice, as well as other methods of their choice for regulation of fertility which are not against the law, and the right of access to appropriate health-care services that will enable women to go safely through pregnancy and childbirth and provide couples with the best chance of having a healthy infant. In line with the above definition of reproductive health, reproductive health care is defined as the constellation of methods, techniques and services that contribute to reproductive health and well-being through preventing and solving reproductive health problems. It also includes sexual health, the purpose of which is the enhancement of life and personal relations, and not merely counseling and care related to reproduction and sexually transmitted diseases.”

Society of Family Planning (SFP) was incorporated to bring together medical professionals who are interested in the scientific study of family planning, focusing, although not exclusively, in the areas of contraception and abortion. The activities of the organization are conducted for scientific purposes, for the advancement and promulgation of knowledge regarding family planning, and for the facilitation of personal relationships among scientific investigators of family planning and related topics. www.societyfp.org/