Acknowledgments<strong>EngenderHealth</strong>’s work to facilitate and improveaccess to safe and effective female sterilization servicesis core to our organizational mission to improvewomen’s reproductive health worldwide.Thus, everymember of <strong>EngenderHealth</strong>’s staff has contributedin some fashion to our work to advance femalesterilization—and the production of this guide is noexception. In particular, experience accrued over theyears by <strong>EngenderHealth</strong>’s medical and program staff inthe provision of quality minilaparotomy services wasdrawn upon during the writing, review, and revision ofthis guide.Dr. Carmela Cordero and Lori Leonhardt worked on theiterative development of manuscripts and were incharge of the overall process of creating the guide.At ameeting held in India in March 2003, a number of<strong>EngenderHealth</strong> senior medical associates—Dr. FrancisFloresca, Dr. Job Obwaka, Dr. Mizanur Rahman, Dr.Marcel Reyners, and Dr. Jyoti Vajpayee—reviewed themanuscript and illustrations and provided invaluablefeedback. Dr. Jean Ahlborg, Dr. José Figueroa, Dr. RoyJacobstein, John Pile, Dr.Amy E. Pollack, and Dr. JosephRuminjo (all of <strong>EngenderHealth</strong>) reviewed subsequentdrafts of the guide and provided useful input. In addition,Dr. Pío Iván Gómez of <strong>EngenderHealth</strong> and Dr.Javier Esclava of the International Clinical EpidemiologyNetwork (INCLEN) were key contributors to thechapter on anesthesia. Finally, a number of externalexperts and organizations helpfully reviewed the guidein draft, including Dr. James Shelton (USAID), Dr.Herbert Peterson (WHO), Dr.Ali Samba (Korle-BuTeaching Hospital, Ghana), Dr. Marianne Parry (MarieStopes International), and Dr. John Naponick (LouisianaDepartment of Health).Laura Pardi Duprey created the original illustrations forthis guide.All photographs included in the guide wereprovided by Instituto de Investigaciones y Servicios enSalud Reproductiva (INSAR).The following members of<strong>EngenderHealth</strong>xiii
<strong>EngenderHealth</strong>’s Publishing Team were instrumental inthe editing, design, and production of this guide: KarenLandovitz supervised the publication process, MichaelKlitsch edited the manuscript,<strong>An</strong>na Kurica supervisedproduction, and Margaret Scanlon proofread the book.Typesetting and layout were done by MarylandComposition, Inc.Funding for this book was provided by the U.S.Agencyfor International Development and by individual<strong>EngenderHealth</strong> members.xiv <strong>Minilaparotomy</strong> for <strong>Female</strong> <strong>Sterilization</strong><strong>EngenderHealth</strong>