International Conference on Family Planning 2022 (ICFP2022) from 14–17 November 2022 at PEACH Royal Cliff Hotel, Pattaya City
Thailand Welcomes the World’s Largest Global Gathering on Family Planning and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Event: International Conference on Family Planning 2022 (ICFP2022) Pre-Opening Ceremony News Conference & Opening Ceremony
Date: Monday, 14 November 2022
News Conference: 15.30 – 16.30 hrs.
Opening Ceremony: 18.00 – 19.00 hrs.
Venue: PEACH (Pattaya Exhibition & Convention Hall), Royal Cliff Hotel, Pattaya City
News Conference and VIP Opening Ceremony participants: –
• Dr. Sathit Pitutecha, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
• Mr. Thawatchai Srithong, Governor of Chonburi
• Mr. Poramet Ngampichet, Mayor of Pattaya
• Mr. Mechai Viravaidya, Founder and Chair, Population and Community Development Association (PDA)
• Emeritus Clinical Professor Dr. Wittaya Titapan, President, The Royal Thai College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RTCOG)
• Jose “Oying” Rimon II, Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health
a news conference featuring the co-hosts for this year’s International Conference on Family Planning, including Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health; the Royal Thai College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RTCOG); Population and Community Development Association (PDA); and the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The news conference will focus on this important global conference and Thailand’s hosting role. It will take place in advance of the Opening Ceremony, which celebrates the first time the reproductive health community has convened in person since the last ICFP conference in Kigali, Rwanda, in 2018.
Thailand is perfectly positioned to serve as co-host of ICFP2022 given the Kingdom’s remarkable success in family planning through strategic partnerships, political will and bold program design. Thailand introduced family planning via a pilot study among rural women in 1966 and transformed the program into a national population policy in 1971, successfully increasing contraceptive use among all women from 15 to 70 percent, and reducing total fertility rate from 6.1 to 1.5.
