Thomson Reuters Foundation: Want to ward off the apocalypse? Invest in women’s health and rights Kathleen Mogelgaard, consultant on climate change, population dynamics, and reproductive health and rights, and Robert Engelman, former president of the Worldwatch Institute; both senior fellows with the Population Institute “…The latest U.N. projections, released [last]…

Foreign Policy: Trump’s Global Gag Rule Is Killing Women, Report Says “…[T]he Trump administration brought back and expanded a Ronald Reagan-era policy — formally known as the Mexico City policy, but often called the ‘global gag rule’ by critics — that prohibits U.S. [global] health-related aid to foreign non-governmental organizations…

USAID: Acting on the Call: Preventing Child & Maternal Deaths USAID released its 2019 Acting on the Call report, which provides an overview of U.S. investments in women’s and children’s health, examines how to best work with countries on their development journeys, and identifies four key principles to accelerate development…

Associated Press: More than 100 children die in India in encephalitis outbreak (6/18). BBC News: Low-income African countries ‘pay 30 times more’ for drugs (6/18). Devex: Q&A: Peter Sands on what it takes to create effective health systems (Lieberman, 6/18). Global Health NOW: Mercy Masoo, Leading the Way in WASH…

Al Jazeera: Pakistan struggles with unprecedented HIV infections in children (Burdon-Manley, 6/16). allAfrica: Africa: After ECHO, Let’s Find Out Why Women Are Not Using Barrier Methods (Ncube, 6/18). BBC News: Face to face with DR Congo’s deadly vipers (6/18). Bloomberg: Deadly Superbugs Win as Wall Street Flees Makers of Antibiotics…

Newsweek: Trump’s War on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights is Global | Opinion Serra Sippel, president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) “…Over the past 50 years, the global community has evolved in its acceptance and promotion of [sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)] as…

BMJ Opinion: In light of the wider attacks on reproductive rights worldwide, Hunt’s views cannot be ignored Sonia Adesara, communications officer for Doctors for Choice U.K., GP trainee, and current National Medical Director’s clinical fellow, discusses abortion as a political issue. She writes, “Jeremy Hunt, who is one of the candidates…

The Lancet: How should we listen to ECHO? Lisa Miyako Noguchi, associate in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Princess Nothemba Simelela, assistant director general for Family, Women’s and Children’s Health at the WHO “For many years before the long-awaited results of the…

The Lancet: The devastating impact of Trump’s global gag rule Editorial Board “…The effects of the Trump global gag rule [also known as the Mexico City policy] on a broad range of sexual and reproductive health services is particularly concerning in light of recent global data from WHO on the…

The Guardian: Contraceptive injections do not increase risk of contracting HIV, study finds “A landmark study has ended 30 years of anxiety that hormonal contraceptive injections may increase women’s chances of infection from HIV. But the study found a dramatically higher rate of HIV infection among women in southern Africa…