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