News Review – 28 July 2017

US Family Planning Policy and Funding The end of the week saw the defeat of the Republican Party’s attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). For the moment, that eliminates the threat to maternal care insurance coverage or funding for family planning...

News Review – 14 July 2017

It was a busier week than most resulting in a much longer weekly compendium. London Family Planning Summit More than 60 governments and partners met in London last week, collectively announcing some $2.5 billion in funding for family planning, with a focus on better...

News Review – 7 July 2017

Ethiopia This week coming to you from Addis Ababa, where we are looking at the implementation of family planning curricula and service delivery. For more on CIRHT’s activities see our website and a video about the program at Bahir Dar University in northern Ethiopia....

News Review – 23 June 2017

Midwives in Toronto, global RH HR needs   “Maternal mortality is the highest health inequity in the world, and midwives are the best-skilled birth attendants who can save the lives of mothers and children during childbirth,” according to Jakaya Kikwete, former...

News Review – 16 June 2017

Demographic Dividend? How will the “Demographic Dividend” pay out? The question got a lot of attention as the Day of the African Child approached. At a G20 conference, Jamie Drummond, a co-founder of ONE, highlighted that “Africa’s population doubled in size since...