Guttmacher Institute: The Benefits of Investing in International Family Planning — and the Price of Slashing Funding Sneha Barot, senior policy manager at the Guttmacher Institute, discusses the benefits of international family planning assistance, including health, economic, social, and environmental benefits, as well as the potential impacts of U.S. cuts…

The Guardian: Insult to injury: how Trump’s ‘global gag’ will hit women traumatized by war “If the first victim of war is the truth, the second is often female. And the people who pick up the pieces are usually aid workers, as it is their health centers and ‘safe spaces’…

Quartz: West African governments want to cut population growth in half, but for whose benefit? “…[O]n July 22, West African politicians took a new and unusual step to curb population growth themselves. At a conference on health and family planning in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West African parliamentarians committed to allocate…

World Politics Review: How the World Has Responded to Trump’s ‘Global Gag Rule’ on Abortion “…In an email interview [with WPR], Scott L. Greer, professor of global health management and policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and Sarah Rominski, research assistant professor in the Department of…

Associated Press: Dutch fund for women’s sexual health tops $300 million “The Dutch government says a campaign to raise funds for access to birth control, abortion, and women’s sexual health programs in developing nations has so far raised more than 260 million euros ($305 million)…” (7/28). The Independent: International campaign…

The Guardian: Closing an HIV lifeline in Africa: the dire impact of Trump’s abortion crackdown “…The lives of the poorest women in Southern Africa depend on organizations such as [Mozambique’s Amodefa — the Mozambican Association for Family Development]. Yet they will be among the worst affected by Donald Trump’s crackdown…

Inter Press Service: “The Time is Now” to Invest in Youth, Girls “…The U.N. Population Fund’s (UNFPA) new acting Executive Director Natalia Kanem, who assumed her new role after the unexpected death of former Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin, sat down with IPS to discuss the issues, challenges, and goals towards…

CNN: U.S. foreign aid cuts could be a ‘death sentence’ to women in Malawi “…The rate of maternal deaths in Malawi is among the highest globally and illegal abortions are a significant reason. Now public health officials, aid professionals, and doctors in Malawi fear it could get even worse. The…

The Guardian: Families, fertility, and feminism: landmarks in women’s rights “Women have fought long and hard to secure access to family planning and abortion, and reduce maternal mortality. A modern timeline of that struggle tells a story full of highs and lows…” (Ford, 7/27).

Devex: How significant were the pledges at the London Family Planning Summit? “Advocates have welcomed the news that an estimated $5 billion was pledged to improve and expand reproductive health services in developing countries at the London Family Planning Summit earlier this month … but say it still falls far…