Youth Declaration
Book of Abstracts
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Global perspectives on adolescent sexual health
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Biosketch:
Dato' Dr. Narimah Awin is currently serving as the Regional Adviser for Making Pregnancy Safer at WHO Regional Office of the Western Pacific Region in Manila, Phillipines. After her graduation from the Assam Medical College, India in 1976, she obtained the Masters in Public Health from the University of Phillipines in 1982. She served in the Ministry of Health Malaysia for almost 30 years and retired from the civil service in 2007 as Director of Family Health Development Division. She was instrumental in planning the National Adolescent Health Policy in Malaysia. She has presented more than 200 papers on various topics in Public Health at seminars, conferences, scientific meetings and conducted research in various aspects of public health. In 2005, she served as consultant to WHO/WPRO in the development of the document "Investing in our Future : A Framework for Accelerating Action for Sexual and Reproductive health of Young People" , a joint project of WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA.
Her special interests includes Family Health, including maternal and child health; and the newer and "expanded" scope of Family Health including women’s health and gender issues; and all aspects of adolescent health especially sexual and reproductive health of adolescents.

Title: "Respecting and protecting the rights of adolescents: a pre-requisite for advancing adolescent health and development"
Biosketch:
Marcus Stahlhofer is Human Rights Adviser for the Department of Child and Adolescent Health (CAH) at the World Health Organization's Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He coordinates the work of WHO in the area of children's rights, and is responsible for the integration and application of international human rights norms and standards to various aspects of the Organization's work on child and adolescent health. His work ranges from training of WHO staff, Government officials and health professionals to developing and implementing rights-based guidelines lines and tools to strengthen national legal and policy environments to support child and adolescent health policies and programmes. Prior to his post with WHO, Mr Stahlhofer worked as a volunteer and human rights specialist in refugee camps in Croatia during the armed conflict, and worked at UNAIDS as associate human rights adviser. He holds degrees in International Relations and International Human Rights Protection from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Kent at Canterbury.
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Malaysian Paediatric Association
3rd Floor, Annexe Block
National Cancer Society Building
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50300 Kuala Lumpur
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IAAH Committee 2008
President: Ueli Buhlmann (Switzerland)Immediate Past President: Sue Bagshaw (New Zealand)
Treasurer/Secretary: Jean Yves Frappier (Canada)
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MPA Exco 2007-2009
President: Dr Soo Thian LianImmediate Past President: Dr Zulkifli Ismail
Vice-President: Prof Zabidi Azhar Mohd Hussain
Hon Secretary: Assoc Prof Tang Swee Fong
Asst Hon Secretary: Dr Noor Khatijah Nurani
Treasurer: Dr Musa Mohd Nordin
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Local Organizing Committee
Nazeli HamzahZulkifli Ismail
Soo Thian Lian
Tang Swee Fong
Musa Mohd Nordin
Koh Chong Tuan
Mymoon Alias
Nik Rubiah Nik A. Rashid
Mary Huang
Thiyagar Nadarajan
Norliza Ahmad

Hotel Reservation Form 1
(Shangri-La/Congress Venue)
Online Hotel Reservation
(Shangri-La/Congress Venue)
Hotel Reservation Form 2
(Concorde)
Hotel Reservation Form 3
(Equatorial)
Hotel Reservation Form 4
(Renaissance)


October 28-30, 2009 (Wednesday - Friday)
Last date for early registration
31 August 2009
Last date for hotel registration
30 September 2009
Last date for abstract submission
30 April 2009
Deadline for Montereux prize
30 March 2009


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