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Pathfinder Field Journal
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2011-2012 Entries
Susan Cossa | February 2012
 My name is Susan Cossa. I’m fifteen years old. I want to talk to you about HIV and AIDS, abortion, and reproductive health advocacy for young
adults like myself. I think a lot about these issues, because my mother
works for Pathfinder International and has a degree in public health.
However, I can’t say the same about my peers.
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Caroline Crosbie | December 2011
 The increased focus on development initiatives for women and girls over the last few years has been inspiring. From books like Half the Sky to exciting advocacy initiatives like The Girl Effect and Every Mother Counts,
we’re seeing great emphasis on the needs of women—particularly sexual
and reproductive health. But how do we address all of those needs, from
skilled birth attendants to HIV care, education to unsafe abortion,
early marriage to family planning?
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Ben Karhl | January 2012
 Worldwide, adolescence is often a period of vulnerability. It is during this time that many young people begin their sexual lives and in the countries where Pathfinder works, many get married and begin childbearing. Yet, adolescents – and adolescent girls in particular – have limited knowledge of their bodies and very little power to stand up for themselves in the face of men, family members, community leaders, and long held traditions. Some adolescents don’t have the choice to say with whom and when they want to have sex; they don’t have the knowledge or resources to negotiate using contraception, including condoms; and, they face innumerable barriers to accessing the sexual and reproductive health services they require to prevent unintended pregnancies and their consequences, which can include unsafe abortion and risk of maternal mortality.
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Callie Simon | December 2011
 Worldwide, adolescence is often a period of vulnerability. It is during this time that many young people begin their sexual lives and in the countries where Pathfinder works, many get married and begin childbearing. Yet, adolescents – and adolescent girls in particular – have limited knowledge of their bodies and very little power to stand up for themselves in the face of men, family members, community leaders, and long held traditions. Some adolescents don’t have the choice to say with whom and when they want to have sex; they don’t have the knowledge or resources to negotiate using contraception, including condoms; and, they face innumerable barriers to accessing the sexual and reproductive health services they require to prevent unintended pregnancies and their consequences, which can include unsafe abortion and risk of maternal mortality.
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Sono Aibe | December 2011
 On December 1, from 7-9 pm at the conference center where the International Conference on Family Planning in Dakar has been taking place, over 70 people packed a tiny room to attend Pathfinder’s launch event for our new Lake Victoria Integrated Community-Managed Population, Health and Environment Project, funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the John T. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and USAID through its technical partners. The project will unfold in Uganda and Kenya, in collaboration with three local NGO partners: the Ecological Christian Organization and Conservation Through Public Health in Uganda, and Osienala in Kenya.
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Jaime-Alexis Fowler | October 2011
 Last night, more than 50 Pathfinder staff gathered in Dakar, Senegal to debrief and spend time together before the beginning of the International Conference on Family Planning. Over the next few days, our staff—from 14 countries—will present 34 presentations and participate in 9 Pathfinder auxiliary events. It’s quite inspiring to meet and chat with different colleagues, all of whom have different things they’re looking forward to at the conference.
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Kathleen Wilbur | October 2011
 As I walked into George Washington University that June night just a few months ago, I wasn't expecting to leave with a new understanding of maternal mortality. Maternal mortality was something we had studied all year long in Amnesty meetings- after all, we needed to prepare ourselves for the Hill visits we would be scheduling concerning the issue during our annual trip to DC. All forty-two student activists from Dartmouth, Massachusetts piled into a room with basically one thing on our mind: food. We ate happily and with much levity; we weren't expecting what we were about to see to be so moving.
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