PRI: Kenyan health providers call Trump’s global gag rule ‘a death sentence’ for women “‘We’ve been given a death sentence.’ That’s how one Kenyan health clinic views President Donald Trump’s ban on U.S. federal [global health] funding for international groups that provide, support or discuss abortions. Critics call the policy…

USAID: GH Newsletter — Social and Behavior Change in Global Health USAID’s October 2017 Global Health Newsletter focuses on social and behavior change in global health and features articles discussing the role of social and behavior change in addressing maternal and child health, community education and engagement, breastfeeding, malaria, family…

BMJ Opinion: Joanna Erdman: The global abortion policies database — legal knowledge as a health intervention Joanna Erdman, MacBain chair in health and policy law at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, discusses the Global Abortion Policies Database and its potential role in abortion law. Erdman writes, “[The…

Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: What we’re reading: The global gag rule gets a check-up, TB in India, and reconsidering HIV prevention Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” discusses several recent pieces on global health including a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson regarding…

Agence France-Presse: Bangladesh eyes sterilization to curb Rohingya population “Bangladesh is planning to introduce voluntary sterilization in its overcrowded Rohingya camps, where nearly a million refugees are fighting for space, after efforts to encourage birth control failed. … Pintu Kanti Bhattacharjee, who heads the family planning service in the district…

Los Angeles Times: Argentina bans abortion in most cases. So why is its abortion rate far higher than that of the U.S.? “…In Argentina, and across much of Latin America, where edicts of the Catholic Church are often enshrined in law, elective abortion in cases of unwanted pregnancy is illegal.…

Human Rights Watch: U.S.: Trump Policy Harming Kenya, Uganda Health Services “Early effects of United States restrictions to global health aid include cuts to essential health services in Kenya and Uganda, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that was released [Thursday]. The…

Human Rights Watch: Re: Early Impact of the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy in Kenya and Uganda In this October 13 letter to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, HRW Washington Director Sarah Margon and Nisha Varia, advocacy director of Human Rights Watch’s women’s rights division, “share our…

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Help save Rohingya women and girls: A plea to our donors, a plea to our world Natalia Kanem, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) “…Women do not stop giving birth during humanitarian crises. … UNFPA does what it can to save every mother and…

FT Health: The painkiller shortage hurting the poor The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses findings from the Lancet Commission on palliative care, which addresses opioid use globally and finds that “[w]hile the U.S. suffers from a surfeit of mis-prescribed opioids causing unnecessary addiction and…