Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues
News outlets report on the World’s Women 2015 report, released on Tuesday by the U.N. Statistics Division. Al Jazeera America: Global fertility rates declining, U.N. report finds “Households across the globe look differently than they did 20 years ago, with women in most regions of the world marrying later, having…
Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program’s “New Security Beat”: A Little Bit of Sugar Helps the Pill Go Down: Resilience, Peace, and Family Planning In a blog post adapted from a commentary on a perspective piece, titled “The Pill is Mightier Than the Sword,” both published in the…
U.N. News Centre: Health and safety of women and children in disaster-prone areas ‘must be a priority,’ says U.N. relief wing “Disaster response specialists, including from the United Nations and other organizations, gathered in Suva, Fiji, this week for the annual Pacific Humanitarian Partnership meeting, where the focus has been…
Huffington Post: Emerging from the Field: Women and the Global Fight Against Hunger Asma Lateef, director of the Bread for the World Institute “In attempting to understand the conditions in which women around the world live, we have come to realize that much of the information about women simply is…
Reuters/Huffington Post: China On New Two-Child Policy: Not So Fast “China must continue to enforce its one-child policy until new rules allowing all couples to have two children go into effect, the top family planning body said. … The plan for the change must be approved by the rubber-stamp parliament…
Project Syndicate: China’s One-Child Calamity Minxin Pei, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and non-resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States “…[I]t is reasonable to estimate that as many as half of China’s abortions — some 6.5 million registered surgical abortions, plus untold numbers…
The Guardian: ‘I didn’t know I could become pregnant after having sex for the first time’ Mary Wanjiku Mwangi, youth mentor for U-Tena “…In many countries, contraception is only available to married couples and information about sexual health does not reach the young people who need it most. Often, social…
The Lancet: The kindest cut: global need to increase vasectomy availability Roy Jacobstein, senior medical adviser at IntraHealth International “…Although vasectomy is simpler to perform, less invasive, safer, and more cost effective than female sterilization, less than one in 11 users of permanent methods in developing regions relies on vasectomy.…
TIME: The End of China’s One-Child Policy Isn’t Enough Latanya Mapp Frett, executive director of Planned Parenthood Global “…Until China promotes a fully rights-based, voluntary family planning program, it is supporting the continued oppression of Chinese families through coercive reproductive policies. No government and no politician should interfere with the…
Aidspan: Global Fund Observer Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, published Issue 275 of the “Global Fund Observer.” “This issue is devoted exclusively to articles on issues discussed at the Global Fund Board meeting held in Geneva on 16-17 November…” (11/18).
