Join a 2009 PAI Friends' Study Tour and go "behind the scenes" of international family planning and reproductive health.

PAI’s Study Tours provide delegates with exclusive opportunities to see the challenges and successes of family planning and reproductive health programs in- country.  Through personal conversations and behind the scenes tours, delegates will connect one-on-one with service-providers, experts in the field, advocates, women and young people.  Each Study Tour is an inspiring week of intense learning and exploration of the local culture.  PAI has planned a Study Tour to Kenya in 2009 – space is limited so please contact us soon to reserve your place!
 

Friends’ Study Tour to Kenya

In August, 2009, PAI's Study Tour will travel to Kenya, a country known for its magnificent wildlife and ancient culture. Once touted as a family planning success story, Kenya has seen its major health indicators stagnate or worsen, particularly in the area of sexual and reproductive health.

Delegates will explore factors that eroded Kenya’s success and learn what is happening at the local and national levels to get family planning back on track. The challenges of HIV/AIDS prevention among married women and in the context of restrictive HIV/AIDS policies will be illuminated through discussions with Kenyan community leaders, HIV/AIDS experts, service providers and women, some of whom appear in PAI documentaries that explore the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa:  The Silent Partner: HIV and Marriage (2008) (www.silentpartnerfilm.com) and Abstaining from Reality (2007). Study Tour delegates will visit small rural communities on Lake Victoria, Kenya’s lush tea growing region, as well as have the opportunity to take part in a safari in Kenya’s famous Masai Mara game park.

Click here to view the full trip itinerary.
 

2008 Friends’ Study Tour to Mexico

PAI led a Friends’ Study Tour to Mexico in June 2008, where delegates spent a week learning about Mexico’s pressing sexual and reproductive health and rights issues and absorbing its colorful culture. Delegates met passionate sexual and reproductive health and rights advocates, medical providers, women living with and affected by HIV/AIDS and young people. Through one-on-one conversations, delegates gained a personal understanding of the needs and challenges of the women, men and young people working to improve access to family planning and reproductive health services. For more details about the Study Tour to México, read the Friends’ Study Tour to Mexico Newsletter and PAI’s blogs from Mexico.
  

To reserve your spot on a 2009 Study Tour, please contact Malissa Lash, Development Officer, at 202-557-3433 or mlash@popact.org