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Washington Post: Letters to the Editor: Trump brings the ‘global gag rule’ on abortion home to America Brian Dixon, senior vice president of the Population Connection Action Fund “The May 21 editorial ‘A blow to low-income women’ rightfully condemned the ‘domestic gag rule,’ the Trump administration’s latest attempt to defund…
CNN: How Trump’s anti-abortion agenda impacts women around the world “For more than 50 years, the United States Agency for International Development has been the largest financial supporter of women’s reproductive health services in the world’s poorest countries, with funding contributing to programs that have lowered maternal mortality rates, unintended…
The Telegraph: How legal restrictions on abortion are harming women all over the world Ann M. Starrs, president of the Guttmacher Institute “…According to a recent study conducted jointly by WHO and the Guttmacher Institute, the overwhelming majority of abortions are safe in countries where the procedure is broadly legal,…
Global Health NOW: Clade X: A Mock, Yet Entirely Plausible, Pandemic (Myers, 5/22). The Guardian: ‘Every girl is forced by our culture into FGM’: battling for change in Kenya — podcast (Lamble/Stephens, 5/23). HealthDay News: Small World? Not With One-Quarter Obese by 2045 (Dallas, 5/22). Reuters: Cholera outbreak kills 12…
Reuters: From Burkina to Zimbabwe, U.S. aid cuts squeeze family planning services “…[USAID] cut all money for Marie Stopes International when it refused to comply with a rule reinstated by Republican President Donald Trump in January 2017. It bans [U.S. global health] funding to any foreign NGO carrying out or…
BBC News: Malaria genetics: study shows how disease became deadly (Gill, 5/22). Bloomberg: China Considers Ending Birth Limits as Soon as This Year (5/21). Forbes: ‘Fatal Disconnect’ — Millions Of Children Are Victims Of Road Traffic, Yet World Is Silent (Mohn, 5/21). The Guardian: HIV drug shortage puts hundreds of…
PTI/Financial Express: Investment in NCD control leads to improvement in health, economy, says WHO report “A new WHO report shows that the world’s poorest countries can gain $350 billion by 2030 by scaling up investments in preventing and treating chronic diseases like cancer and heart ailments, which will save more…
Devex: Opinion: Half a century on, let’s make family planning a reality for all Natalia Kanem, UNFPA executive director “…It has been 50 years since world leaders proclaimed family planning a basic human right. … [H]owever, millions of women around the world are still denied the means and information to…
UNFPA: Haiti vasectomy campaign draws over 300 percent anticipated turnout This article discusses a vasectomy campaign in Haiti, noting, “The surgery was offered as part of an outreach event for men, supported by UNFPA and conducted by a health clinic run by the Association for the Promotion of the Haitian…
Vanguard: Repeal the Global Gag Rule Sola Ogundipe, health editor at Vanguard Media Ltd. “…There is little doubt that [Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance, otherwise known as the Mexico City policy or global gag rule,] is undermining Nigeria’s reproductive and overall health goals and Nigerians are not happy about…