The Hill: Democrats introduce bill to repeal funding ban on abortions abroad “Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) introduced legislation Wednesday that would repeal a decades-old policy that prevents U.S. foreign aid programs from providing funding for abortion services. … Schakowsky’s bill, the Abortion Is Health Care Act of 2020, would classify…

Devex: Opinion: Why is IFC contributing to poverty in Guinea? David Pred, co-founder and executive director of Inclusive Development International (7/28). NBC News: Zara Ahmed: Abortion rates don’t drop when the procedure is outlawed. But it does make it more dangerous Zara Ahmed, associate director of federal issues for the…

UNAIDS: UNAIDS is hopeful that a new long-acting HIV prevention option will soon become available for women in sub-Saharan Africa (7/28). UNICEF: A third of the world’s children poisoned by lead, new groundbreaking analysis says (7/29). Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program’s “New Security Beat”: At the Intersection of…

Al Jazeera: Family planning: Billions of dollars saved by contraception “Low- and middle-income countries could save billions of dollars a year in healthcare costs by investing in making contraception widely available to women, researchers say. Among 923 million women wanting to avoid pregnancy in these countries, about one in four…

Center for Global Development: This Is the Perfect Moment to Redesign U.K. Aid Spend on Research Euan Ritchie, research associate with CGD Europe, and Charles Kenny, director of technology and development and senior fellow with CGD (7/23). Pew Charitable Trusts: The U.S. Is Not Prepared to Combat ‘Existential Threat’ of…

The Guardian: Covid-19 threatens access to abortions and contraceptives, experts warn “Rates of unplanned pregnancies have fallen around the world, according to new data published by health research organization the Guttmacher Institute and the U.N. Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) on Wednesday. Global rates of unintended pregnancies have fallen from 79…

Al Jazeera: Why ‘pro-life’ activists won’t protect women during childbirth Claire Provost, global investigations editor at openDemocracy, and Inge Snip, health journalism fellow at openDemocracy’s Tracking the Backlash project (7/22). The Conversation: AIDS conference: COVID-19, big breakthroughs and missed targets Linda-Gail Bekker, professor of medicine and deputy director of the…

The BMJ: Serious violations of health workers’ rights during pandemic Julian Sheather, specialist adviser for ethics and human rights with the British Medical Association, and colleagues (7/14). Devex: To enable UHC, close COVID-19 testing and gender gaps Roopa Dhatt, executive director and co-founder of Women in Global Health, internal medicine…

New York Times: World Population Could Peak Decades Ahead of U.N. Forecast, Study Asserts “United Nations demographers have been anticipating since last year that the world’s population may stop growing by 2100 as fertility rates decline, projecting a peak of 10.9 billion people by century’s end, compared with roughly 7.8…

The Conversation: Kenya is having another go at passing a reproductive rights bill. What’s at stake Anthony Idowu Ajayi, postdoctoral research scientist, and Meggie Mwoka, policy research officer, both at the African Population and Health Research Center (7/12). Devex: A green recovery action plan for the World Bank Ladd Connell,…