Misoprostol and Teratogenicity: Reviewing the Evidence Report of a Meeting

The Population Council is an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources. The Council conducts biomedical, social science, and public health research and helps build research capacities in developing countries. Population Council board chair and established in 1988, responds to an awareness that many important reproductive health problems—and the ways women experience them—have been neglected by policymakers, program planners, and practitioners. Reflecting a strong commitment to women's rights and autonomy, and with an overarching focus on improving the quality of services in reproductive health programs, the Ebert Program currently focuses on several areas that merit special attention: managing unwanted pregnancy and preventing the consequences of unsafe abortion, addressing safe motherhood and devising new approaches to postpartum care to meet the health needs of the mother and child, and designing programs that address sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, within the larger context of women's reproductive health. The Ebert Program tackles these challenging issues through research, technical assistance, publications, and meetings. Gynuity Health Projects is a research and technical assistance organization dedicated to the idea that all people should have access to the fruits of medical science and technology development. Gynuity works to make reproductive health technologies widely available at reasonable cost, in the context of high-quality services, and in a way that promotes the dignity and autonomy of each person. Gynuity's efforts are focused particularly on resource-poor environments, underserved populations, and controversial subject matter.