News Review – 15 December 2017

News Review – 15 December 2017

Capacity-building A core principle of CIRHT’s work is increasing capacity for doctors, nurses, and midwives to provide compassionate, comprehensive family planning services to women and girls, including contraception and abortion care. The CIRHT focus is on academia –...
News Review – 8 December 2017

News Review – 8 December 2017

          FP2020 5-year Anniversary FP2020 marked its fifth anniversary with a bold “Way Ahead” recommitment to its mission: “We believe that every woman and girl must be empowered to shape her own life. We know that rights-based family...
News Review – 1 December 2017

News Review – 1 December 2017

AIDS, Family Planning and Reproductive Justice International AIDS Day on December 1st gave an opportunity to explore the link between access to family planning services and combatting HIV, which can both be related to gender inequality. Stigma around getting family...
News Review – 24 November 2017

News Review – 24 November 2017

  Family planning imperatives Simply put, “when a woman can control when she has children, she can control her future.” One article calls affordable maternity care and birth control “the foundation of a family’s future.” In Kenya family planning enhances living...
News Review – 10 November 2017

News Review – 10 November 2017

Population Council “Ideas that Changed the world” The week saw a celebration of the Population Council’s 65th anniversary, for which they released “10 Ideas the Changed the World.” Taking their lead, some of those ideas have direct relevance in the week’s news: Making...