Miami Herald: El Salvador, Dominican Republic can stop sending pregnant women to their deaths U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) “…Trump’s broad [Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance] directive hinders the substantial good of U.S. humanitarian efforts. Moreover, the [directive, also called the Mexico City policy or global gag rule,] takes…

Devex: Opinion: Sustainable change begins with listening Anne Lynam Goddard, president and CEO of ChildFund International, and Leslie Gamero, country director for ChildFund International Honduras “For 80 years, ChildFund International has worked to improve the well-being of children worldwide, evolving its approach according to children’s needs and the context they live in.…

Devex: With improvements in child marriage fight, some fear a funding drop “…While this decline [in child marriage prevalence] of more than one-third has drawn praise, it also doesn’t fully represent the realties on the ground, according to groups that focus on child marriage. And some fear the rare positive…

New York Times: Legal Abortion in Argentina? A Long Shot Is Suddenly Within Reach “…[L]awmakers in Pope Francis’ homeland began considering legislation this past week that would allow women to have an abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. If backers of the measure succeed, Argentina would become the…

U.N. News: DPR Korea: U.N. says $111 million needed to provide life-saving aid, tackle malnutrition “The United Nations and its partners are urgently requesting $111 million in humanitarian funding to assist millions of people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), including children whose growth has been stunted because…

The Conversation: The unspeakable cruelty of El Salvador’s abortion laws Lisa Kowalchuk, associate professor at the University of Guelph “…In El Salvador, the clock is ticking towards a May 1, 2018, deadline for reform that would decriminalize abortion in two situations: When the life of the pregnant woman is in…

Reuters: Hospitals must support breastfeeding which saves lives — WHO, UNICEF “Babies, even those who are premature, underweight, or sickly, should be exclusively breastfed, from the maternity ward and ideally for two years, the U.N. agencies said on Wednesday…” (Nebehay, 4/11). U.N. News: U.N.’s advice for hospitals: Help mothers breastfeed…

U.N. News: U.N.-backed campaign to protect nearly a billion people in Africa from yellow fever by 2026 “Amid a resurgence of yellow fever outbreaks, the United Nations together with partners, has begun an ambitious campaign to vaccinate close to one billion people against the deadly disease across 27 high-risk African…

Agence France-Presse: ‘Emergency’ malnutrition in Rohingya refugee kids: study (4/10). Al Jazeera: The plight of Pakistan’s Lady Health Workers (Adil, 4/10). BBC News: Tanzania launches early-age cervical cancer vaccine (4/10). CIDRAP News: MERS studies spotlight infections in health workers, kids (Schnirring, (4/10). The Guardian: Africa’s unsung scientists finally get their…

Project Syndicate: How to Save Women and Newborns During Childbirth Katherine Semrau, director of the Ariadne Labs Better Birth Program, and Atul Gawande, executive director of Ariadne Labs, both associated with Harvard and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital “…Progress on reducing maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity … requires improving…