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Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: Hearings on Price for HHS Secretary conclude, with finance committee vote possible next week Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” highlights several issues discussed during the confirmation hearing of HHS Secretary nominee Rep. Tom Price, including several global health-related topics.…
BuzzFeed News: The White House Has Finally Said More About What Its Global Anti-Abortion Rule Means “A White House official on Thursday clarified a new policy that renews abortion-related restrictions on global health funding, suggesting that the new version [of the Mexico City policy] may be even more restrictive than…
Christian Post: President Trump’s Global Gag Rule Affects Fight to End the Spread of HIV/AIDS “With United States President Donald Trump reinstating the global gag rule, a lot of advocates are worried about its imminent repercussion not only in preventing abortion but also on the ongoing fight against the HIV/AIDS…
Center for Global Development’s “CGD Podcast”: Empowering Women Can Make America Great — Podcast with Amanda Glassman, Mayra Buvinic, and Charles Kenny In this podcast, Rajesh Mirchandani, vice president of communications and policy outreach, speaks with Amanda Glassman, chief operating officer and senior fellow at CGD, and Mayra Buvinic and…
Rewire: How a U.N. Committee’s Ruling on Abortion in Ireland Holds Countries Accountable Jamie J. Hagen, a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Boston, explores how a case in Ireland in which a woman appealed to the U.N. arguing that being denied access to a safe and affordable abortion…
Huffington Post: It’s time to stop violence against women and girls Flavia Bustreo, assistant director general for Family, Women’s, and Children’s Health at the WHO, and vice chair of the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance “…Violence against women and girls affects their physical, mental, sexual, and reproductive health in…
Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program’s “New Security Beat”: Displaced and Disrupted: Closing the Gaps in Maternal Health in Conflicts and Crises Nancy Chong, an intern for the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative, discusses a December 8 Wilson Center event, titled Closing the Gaps of Maternal Health in…
U.N. News Centre: Repealing anti-abortion laws would save the lives of nearly 50,000 women a year — U.N. experts “Warning that unsafe abortions kill nearly 50,000 women each year, United Nations human rights experts [Tuesday] called on states across the world to repeal restrictive abortion laws and policies, and all…
IRIN: Pregnant and homeless: South Sudan’s women refugees “Josephine Maziku arrived at Uganda’s Nyumanzi Transit Centre in June this year six months pregnant and with only the dress she was wearing. … Like many other expectant mothers who fled South Sudan’s violence, she had little time to think of anything…
Medium: 5 Reasons I’m Optimistic About the Future of Our Girls Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “On International Day of the Girl, we recognize the unique challenges millions of girls face. And we celebrate the ways in which girls change the world when they overcome…
