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FPAHK President honoured for emergency contraception research in “Women Deliver 100” on International Women’s Day Centenary

Ref Number: ESEAOR201103a

  • Date1 Mar 2011
  • Category FPA Message
  • Targets Healthcare Professionals Women Public
  • AuthorFPAHK
  • Topic Health Knowledge

Professor Ho Pak-chung, President of FPAHK, was named among 100 individuals in the world who have delivered women to better health to mark the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day.

Women Deliver, a global advocacy organization, published the “Women Deliver 100” to recognize the 100 most inspiring women and men, both prominent and lesser known, who have committed themselves to improving the lives of girls and women around the world. Honorees derive from the fields of health, human rights, politics, economics, education, journalism, and philanthropy, and represent a great diversity of geographic and cultural backgrounds.

Professor Ho is recognized under the category of “Scientific Visionaries” for delivering breakthroughs that had a positive impact on reproductive healthcare. His research cemented the place of levonorgestrel as the emergency contraception of choice, providing that critical second chance for all women who want to avoid an unwanted pregnancy. His achievement contributed to expanding women’s sexual and reproductive choices, offering women more control over their bodies, their fertility, and their destinies.

“I think the honour should belong to FPAHK which helped me to conduct the series of studies on the use of levonorgestrel for emergency contraception,” said Professor Ho.

Apart from emergency contraception, Professor Ho’s research interests also include medical abortion, subfertility treatment, ovarian stimulation and endometrial receptivity.

In 2010, FPAHK’s eight Birth Control Clinics and three Youth Health Care Centres provided a total of more than 3,000 prescription of emergency contraception pills to women for preventing unwanted pregnancies after unprotected sex or contraceptive failures.