Kaiser Family Foundation: The U.S. Government and International Family Planning & Reproductive Health Efforts This updated fact sheet examines international family planning and reproductive health efforts and the U.S. government’s role in FP/RH efforts, including funding and challenges (6/20). Kaiser Family Foundation: The U.S. Government and Global Maternal & Child…

Reuters: Exclusive: In Zika-struck Puerto Rico, trouble delivering donated contraceptives “Only a small fraction of contraceptives donated in Puerto Rico to prevent Zika-related birth defects are expected to get to the women who need them this month, public health officials told Reuters. The donations — tens of thousands of intrauterine…

TIME: Ashley Judd: We Can’t Ignore Refugees’ Sexual Health Ashley Judd, actress and goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) “…If ever there was a time girls and women need to know how to regulate their fertility, and be empowered to make thoughtful choices about their family size,…

The Guardian: Illegal abortions are killing women and aid restrictions are just making it worse Hannah Mitchell, physician based in Botswana “…What is stopping women from accessing safe abortions? The first is restrictive laws in their own countries, which can extend to a ban. … The second barrier is the…

The Guardian: Baby blues: rural Myanmar’s desperate need for family planning services “…About 40 percent of women in Myanmar use contraception, but in Chin State the figure is closer to three percent. … But improving access to family planning services is an uphill battle. Many people believe using contraception defies…

The Guardian: WHO advice that women at Zika risk delay pregnancy isn’t an abortion debate Ann Neumann, author “…It is the well being of women, not that of potential children, we are obligated as a global society to support. … Claims that the abortion of microcephaly fetuses amounts to eugenics…

STAT: WHO seeks to clarify: It’s not suggesting pregnancy delays in Zika regions “…William Perea, the WHO official who is coordinating global health guidance on the Zika outbreak, told STAT on Friday that the agency is not trying to push people in Zika-affected countries towards any one choice regarding pregnancy.…

Wall Street Journal: Viewpoints: Desmond-Hellmann of The Gates Foundation In this 28-minute video, “Susan Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks to WSJ’s Rebecca Blumenstein about the Zika virus, drug pricing, and common core” (6/9).

The Guardian: It isn’t lack of drugs preventing us eradicating AIDS, but inequality Lilianne Ploumen, Dutch minister for foreign trade and development cooperation “…It’s time that we as governments, together with our civil society partners, tackle the discrimination that prevents those infected with HIV from seeking and finding assistance and…

Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program’s “New Security Beat”: Global Population and Reproductive Health (Book Preview) Deborah R. McFarlane, professor and regents lecturer at the University of New Mexico and editor of the new book, Global Population and Reproductive Health, discusses themes from the book, which shows “that…