6th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “30 Years Post ICPD: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities” Nov 14 & 15, 2024

6th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “30 Years Post ICPD: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities” Nov 14 & 15, 2024

6th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “30 Years Post ICPD: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities” Nov 14 & 15, 2024

6th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “30 Years Post ICPD: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities” Nov 14 & 15, 2024

6th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “30 Years Post ICPD: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities” Nov 14 & 15, 2024

6th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “30 Years Post ICPD: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities” Nov 14 & 15, 2024

6th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “30 Years Post ICPD: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities” Nov 14 & 15, 2024

6th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “30 Years Post ICPD: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities” Nov 14 & 15, 2024

6th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “30 Years Post ICPD: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities” Nov 14 & 15, 2024

6th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “30 Years Post ICPD: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities” Nov 14 & 15, 2024

6th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “30 Years Post ICPD: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities” Nov 14 & 15, 2024

6th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “30 Years Post ICPD: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities” Nov 14 & 15, 2024

5th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “Advancing Adolescents and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Bridging the Gap” Nov 9 & 10, 2023

5th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “Advancing Adolescents and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Bridging the Gap” Nov 9 & 10, 2023

5th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “Advancing Adolescents and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Bridging the Gap” Nov 9 & 10, 2023

5th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “Advancing Adolescents and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Bridging the Gap” Nov 9 & 10, 2023

5th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “Advancing Adolescents and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Bridging the Gap” Nov 9 & 10, 2023

5th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “Advancing Adolescents and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Bridging the Gap” Nov 9 & 10, 2023

5th Annual RH Conference

Theme: “Advancing Adolescents and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Bridging the Gap” Nov 9 & 10, 2023

4th Annual RH Symposium

Theme: “Sustaining Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Amid Emerging Global Challenges” Nov 25 & 26, 2022

About us

By working closely with St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, we aim to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity through coordinated sexual reproductive health and rights clinical service, training, research and advocacy to enable girls and women to reach their full potential.

Improving Service

We aim to improve quality of SRH care through enhancing access to information and services, building ICT capacity and Quality Improvement (QI) activities to ensure systematic and measurable improvement in service delivery.

Improving Training

We aim to strengthen pre and in-service trainings to produce the next generation of competent RH service providers, advocates, leaders and researchers.

 

Improving Research

We aim to improve and strengthen the capacity of our partner institution to conduct high quality and impactful SRH researches that address community needs and generate scientific evidence that can be used to inform policy and advocacy.

Improving Advocacy

We aim to become strong advocate for reproductive health and rights through different community engagement strategies.

 

SPIRHR and SPHMMC Celebrate Vasectomy Day 2024 with Awareness Campaign

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC), in collaboration with the St. Paul Institute for Reproductive Health and Rights (SPIRHR), commemorated Vasectomy Day 2024 on November 22, 2024, under the theme...

The 6th Annual Reproductive Health Conference: A Resounding Success

The 6th Annual Reproductive Health Conference, co-hosted by the St. Paul Institute for Reproductive Health and Rights (SPIRHR), Yonsei Global Health Center (YGHC), and St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC), was colorfully conducted on 14–15 November...

October Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Tseday, SPIRHR and SPHMMC Lead Screening Initiative

Tsedey Obstetrics and Gynecology Specialty Clinic, in collaboration with the St. Paul Institute for Reproductive Health and Rights (SPIRHR), St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC), and the Ministry of Health, Ethiopia, conducted a breast and cervical...

SPIRHR Provides Vasectomy Counselling Training for Family Planning Service Providers to Enhance Family Planning Services

The St. Paul Institute for Reproductive Health and Rights (SPIRHR) has been actively working to enhance male engagement in family planning through a series of training and awareness sessions. Recently, SPIRHR conducted a comprehensive training on the Basics of...

SPIRHR and SPHMMC Launch Male Engagement in Family Planning Program

The Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC), with the support of the St. Paul Institute for Reproductive Health and Rights (SPIRHR), has launched a Male Engagement in Family Planning program. This initiative aims...

Enhancing SRH Services: SPIRHR and SabaHealth Training

The St. Paul Institute for Reproductive Health and Rights (SPIRHR), in collaboration with SabaHealth, has successfully concluded a three-day training from May 13-15/2024 on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and counseling for SRH service providers. This...

SPIRHR Launched the “Ethiopian Pregnancy Calendar App”

St. Paul’s Institute of Reproductive Health and Rights (SPIRHR) in collaboration with the department of Ob-Gyn at SPHMMC has developed inhouse and launched the “Ethiopian Pregnancy Calendar” App. The app will serve as an important provider job aid with many important...

VCAT Workshop for SRH Service Providers and Graduating Medical Students

St. Paul Institute for Reproductive Health and Rights (SPIRHR) hosted a two-day workshop in collaboration with EngenderHealth Ethiopia on Value Clarification and Attitude Transformation for SRH service providers and graduating medical students at St. Paul’s Hospital...

Implementation Science Workshop

St. Paul Institute for Reproductive Health and Rights (SPIRHR) hosted a two-day training workshop on implementation science in partnership with The Center for International Reproductive Health Training at the University of Michigan (CIRHT-UM). The workshop aimed to...

Second Round of SPIRHR ECSACOG Exchange Program

St. Paul Institute for Reproductive Health and Rights (SPIRHR), East, Central and Southern Africa College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ECSACOG) and St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC) Department of Ob/Gyn has continued with a second round of...

Advancing Service Accessibility

We strive to build a quality and accessible Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) service

We partner with St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College to advance its SRH service by closely working with its Obstetrics and Gynecology department to support “Michu” reproductive health clinic.

In realization of our core vision and with generous support from Center for Reproductive Health Training (CIRHT), we established Tsedey Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic, a Women’s Health Clinic to increase access to quality Reproductive Health services.

Continuing Professional Development

We are accredited Continuing Professional Development (CPD) provider in Ethiopia focusing on sexual and reproductive health (SRH).

One of the training we deliver through our CPD center is a regular global sexual and reproductive health (SRH) state-of-the-art lecture series webinar where topics from evidence based practice to policy issues will be presented.

Getting the Word Out

We strive to become a strong advocate for reproductive health and rights through different community engagement strategies.

We collaborate with partners and youth groups to utilze muti-tier communication medium for awareness creation and SRHR advocacy.

About CPD Center

Through collaboration with St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC), we have accumulated experience of planning and offering various trainings to health professionals in various SRH fields. The establishment of a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) center provides an opportunity to pull resources to conduct more cycles of standardized trainings and events in various areas of sexual and reproductive health. The CPD accredited training courses, workshops, webinars and events (such as our annual reproductive health symposia) allow professionals to use the learning time towards individual CPD requirements.

Family Planning and CAC Training

With exceptional talents of our panel of experts on family planning & CAC services, we are ready to contribute our share for continued professional growth.

E-learning and Certificate Verification

For any certificate your received from us through face-to-face, live online webinar or our e-learning platform, you can click here to verify your certificate.

Need SRH training package?

You can reach us by email at cpd@spirhr.org

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We are involved in multiple activities in the sexual and reproductive health clinical, training, research and advocacy areas towards achiving our goal of enabling girs and women to reach their full potential. Here are some of those activites we think you would be interested in.

SPIRHR bulletin

With the aim to help create awareness and show the existing challenges of SRHR, which will foster resource mobilization and allocation, our biannual bulletin is intended to update partners and stakeholders on the progress made and challenges encountered. Click for more...

Research support

We collaborate with our partners to produce an impactful SRHR research output. Click for more...

Annual RH symposium

The annual RH symposium is intended to bring practitioners, researchers and policy makers together to share findings and recommendations for the betterment of the sexual and reproductive health services. Click here to explore previous symposiums.

Research repository

An online research repository for the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology expected to improve communications of research outputs with a wider audience by capturing and preserving research outputs of the department. Click to visit the repository...

CPD Activity Database

You can use this online database to verify certificates acquired through face-to-face, online or our e-learning platform courses.

Management protocol

We collaborated with the department of OBGYN at St. Paul's Hospital Millinieum Medical Colleage to make its management protocol available as an android mobile application to provide easy, efficient, and up-to-date access. Click here to get the app.

Ethiopian Pregnancy Calendar Mobile App

St. Paul’s Institute of Reproductive Health and Rights (SPIRHR) in collaboration with the department of Ob-Gyn at SPHMMC has developed inhouse and launched the “Ethiopian Pregnancy Calendar” App.


The app is designed to serve as an important provider job aid with many important features which include:

  • Calculating gestational age and EDD from LNMP, from ultrasound, from date of embryo transfer and conception date (for intrauterine insemination)
  • Providing the dates for a given pregnancy specific investigation such as for Ultrasound Nuchal translucency, anatomic scanning, OGTT when indicated
  • Providing the dates for a given pregnancy for specific interventions such as for low dose aspirin and anti D administration
  • It has St. Paul’s protocol for medication abortion under various scenarios like gestational age and uterine scar
  • Informing dates for elective cesarean section, EDD, postterm
  • Assisting Bishop score calculation
  • Providing ANC schedule dates using the national ANC

The app makes date calculation easier for Ethiopian Healthcare providers because it has the Ethiopian calendar integrated in it along with the Gregorian Calendar.

 

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