News Review – 27 Jan 2017
General
The Gambia finally welcomes its first new president in two decades, Quartz, 26 Jan 2017
Britain May Offer More Women’s Reproductive Rights Funding Worldwide After Trump Stopped It, BuzzFeed, 26 Jan 2017
Fact Checker: Does Trump’s Mexico City policy ban funds to groups that ‘even mention’ abortion?, Washington Post, 26 Jan 2017
Clinics for World’s Vulnerable Brace for Trump’s Anti-Abortion Cuts, The New York Times, 26 Jan 2017
The Mexico City Policy endangers women’s lives, MSF, 26 Jan 2017
These 18 States Are Introducing Bills to Protect Reproductive Rights, Refinery29, 26 Jan 2017
Finalists named to lead under-fire WHO, Guardian (Nigeria), 25 Jan 2017
Netherlands pledges to step in and fill funding void left by Trump’s abortion gag rule, International Business Times, 25 Jan 2017
Globally 14 pregnant women could die each day as consequence of Trump’s abortion-gag order, International Business Times (UK edition), 24 Jan 2017
How the US global gag rule threatens health clinics across Kenya and Uganda, Guardian, 24 Jan 2017
The Demographic Dividend at the core of 28th African Union summit, UNFPA WCA, 24 Jan 2017
7 global health issues to watch in 2017, Humanosphere, 23 Jan 2017
Canada should step in to fill Trump’s abortion ‘gag rule’ gap: advocate, iPolitics, 23 Jan 2017
Trump reverses abortion-related U.S. policy, bans funding to international health groups, Washington Post, 23 Jan 2017
Here’s How Trump’s Anti-Abortion Rule May Actually Increase Abortion, BuzzFeed, 23 Jan 2017
Development experts debate Trump’s likely impact on Africa, Devex, 23 Jan 2017
Academic
Interventions using social networking sites to promote contraception in women of reproductive age, Cochrane Review, 23 Jan 2017
Burkina Faso
« L’accès des jeunes à la contraception est un droit », Ouagadougou Partnership, 26 Jan 2017
Santé sexuelle et reproductive des jeunes filles : le projet « PIGE (2) » pour booster les droits des jeunes filles à la santé reproductive et à l’éducation, AIB, 25 Jan 2017
Comoros
From teen mother to mentor in the Comoros, UNFPA, 25 Jan 2017
Ethiopia
Addis-Based WHO Board Members Briefed On Dr. Tedros’s Bid, Ethiopian Herald, 24 Jan 2017
USAID’s “Transform” program targets health care in Ethiopia, ENA, 24 Jan 2017
Attitudes Toward Female Genital Mutilation Changing in Ethiopia, Online Ethiopia, 23 Jan 2017
Ghana
Adolescent reproductive health dissemination meeting held, Ghana News Agency, 26 Jan 2017
IMPROVE project ends in north, Ghana News Agency, 25 Jan 2017
PPAG poised to reduce incidence of teenage pregnancy, Graphic Online, 23 Jan 2017
Six hospitals receive maternal healthcare awards, Ghana News Agency, 20 Jan 2017
Kenya
Q and A.: How Trump’s Revival of an Abortion Ban Will Affect Women in Kenya, The New York Times, 26 Jan 2017
Women use mobile phone apps to prevent pregnancy, The Star, 25 Jan 2017
Expectant women at risk of developing fistulas due to doctors’ strike: Expert, The Nation, 24 Jan 2017
Careful, lest you advance the cause of abortion campaigners, The Nation, 24 Jan 2017
World Health Organisation wants adolescents to access contraceptives, The Nation, 23 Jan 2017
Abortion’s moral questions are best addressed outside criminal law, The Nation, 18 Jan 2017
Madagascar
How the global gag rule will hurt women and families, explained by 2 experts on the ground, Vox, 27 Jan 2017
Nigeria
Family planning is no licence to abortion – NURHI, Daily Post, 26 Jan 2017
Family planning: private hospitals outdo public, 26 Jan 2017
For Nigerian mothers, escape from Boko Haram shakes up childbirth customs, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 25 Jan 2017
Somalia
Thousands reached in Somaliland reproductive health campaign, ReliefWeb, 20 Jan 2017
South Africa
Trump misses mark in SA, The Times (SA), 26 Jan 2017
Tanzania
Family Planning Advocacy Resource Hub: AFP/Tanzania, PRB, 26 Jan 2017
Uganda
Self-Injectable Gives Women More Power Over Family Planning, NewsDeeply, 23 Jan 2017
Uganda start- up teams win health cash, East African Business Week, 22 Jan 2017
Zambia
Why Religious Leaders Must Be Involved in Family Planning,(video series), CCIH, 19 Jan 2017
