Recommendations for Contraceptive Use
		Participants' and Reviewers' Organizations

Meeting Participants' and Reviewers' Organizations

ACNM = American College of Nurse Midwives

AED = Academy for Educational Development

AIDSCAP/FHI

ARHP = Association of Reproductive Health Professionals

AVSC International

BIRPERHT, Bangladesh

Boston Women's Health Book Collective

CARE

CARE International

CDC = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CEDPA = The Centre for Development and Population Activity

CEMICAMP

Columbia University School of Public Health

CONRAD

CPFH = Center for Population and Family Health, Columbia University

Emory University Family Planning Program

FHI = Family Health International

FPASL = Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka

Futures Group/Options Project

Futures Group SOMARC

ICMER = Instituto Chileno de Medicina Reproductiva, Chile

Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición, México

Instituto Nacional de Perinatología, México

Institute of Tropical Medicine

Instituto per la Regalozione Naturale Della Fertilita

INTRAH = Program for International Training in Health

IPAS = International Projects Assistance Services

IPPF = International Planned Parenthood Federation

IPPF WHR = International Planned Parenthood Federation - Western Hemisphere Region

IRH = Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University

JHPIEGO Corporation

JHU/CCP = Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Johns Hopkins University

Karolinska Hospital, Sweden

NHS Executive North West

NICHD = National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

PATH = Program for Appropriate Technology in Health

Pathfinder International, USA and Mexico

The Population Council

PPAG

Princeton University

Profamilia, Dominican Republic

The Profit Project, Boston University

The R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute

Sborml Hospital and Maternity, Nigeria

School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley

SEATS/JSI = Family Planning Service Expansion and Technical Support Program/John

South to South Corporation in Reproductive Health, Brazil

Uganda Ministry of Health

UMATI, Tanzania

UNFPA = United Nations Population Fund

Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

University of California - San Francisco (UCSF), Schools of Medicine and Public Health

University of Denver

University of Malawi

UNC-CH = University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

USAID/W = United States Agency for International Development/Washington

USFDA = United States Food and Drug Administration

WHO = World Health Organization

ZNFPC

The Secretariat of the Technical Guidance Working Group wishes to thank the Division of Family Health and the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction of the World Health Organization (WHO) for their review of this document; all of the recommendations made by WHO which are within the scope of this document have been made. The recommendations in this document are also consistent with the WHO's August 1994 draft of Medical Eligibility Criteria 1 , which is the preliminary result of a WHO-led effort to update family planning medical eligibility criteria to reflect current clinical and epidemiologic knowledge.

1 * World Health Organization. Improving Access to Quality Care in Family Planning; Eligibility Criteria for Initiating Use of Selected Methods of Contraception: Combined Oral Contraceptives, Progestogen Only Contraceptives, DMPA, Norplant and Copper IUDs. Revised Draft August 8,1994. Geneva, WHO, 1994.

Any part of Recommendations for Updating Selected Practices in Contraceptive Use may be reproduced or adapted to meet local needs without prior permission from the TG/CWG Secretariat, provided the TG/CWG is acknowledged and the material is made available free of charge or at cost.