General

This App Says It’s As Good As The Pill At Preventing Pregnancy, But Experts Want More Evidence, BuzzFeed, 9 Feb 2017

‘There will be more deaths’: NGOs on Trump’s anti-abortion rule, The Guardian, 9 Feb 2017

Eight countries sign up to counter Trump’s global anti-abortion move, Reuters, 9 Feb 2017

Global Female Condom Market Witnesses Growth as Awareness about Family Planning Increases: Technavio, BusinessWire, 9 Feb 2017

Africa’s high population hinders growth, The East African, 9 Feb 2017

Toward safe and legal abortion as a human right in Africa, IPAS, 8 Feb 2017

Family planning a development imperative, leaders at AU Summit emphasize, UNFPA, 8 Feb 2017

Sierra Club pushes abortion to reach “sustainable” population goals, Natural News, 8 Feb 2017

The Trumped Up Gag Rule and Women’s Health, Global Health Now, 7 Feb 2017

“Medicalisation” of female genital mutilation is serious threat – experts, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 6 Feb 2017

Fight against female genital mutilation progressing in Africa, RFI, 6 Feb 2017

Birth Control Shot: Gel Injection Into Male Reproductive System Stops Pregnancy, Medical Daily, 6 Feb 2017

Opinion: Want to Empower Women Worldwide? Give Them Access to Contraceptives, National Geographic, 3 Feb 2017

5 Big Global Health Victories to Anticipate in 2017. (This is Humanity Affirming Stuff!), UN Dispatch, 1 Feb 2017

Academic

Health care providers’ experiences and prospects of providing family planning to adolescents in Kampala, Uganda.: A qualitative study, Uppsala University, 9 Feb 2017

The Impact of Contraceptive Use and Abortion on Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa: Estimates for 2003–2014, Guttmacher/Population and Development Review, February 2017

Reassessing the importance of long-acting contraception, AJOG, February 2017

How to Introduce and Scale Up Sayana Press (DMPA-SC in Uniject), PATH, 8 Feb 2017

Long-Acting Reversible Contraception, NEJM, 2 Feb 2017

Perinatal Mental Health: A Call to Action, MHIN, 2 Feb 2017

Making the continuum of care work for mothers and infants: Does gender equity matter? Findings from a quasi-experimental study in Bihar, India, PLOS, 1 Feb 2017

Benin

Cutters turn counsellors to fight female genital mutilation in Benin, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 6 Feb 2017

Botswana

In Botswana, future depends on investments in young people, UNFPA, 2 Feb 2017

Cameroon

Le mobile à la rescousse des femmes enceintes, Jeune Afrique, 6 Feb 2017

Cote d’Ivoire

Engendering sexual and reproductive rights for all in Côte d’Ivoire, Engender Health, February 2017

Ethiopia

Empowering Local Doctors to Expand Women’s Health Care in Ethiopia, MhealthLab, 8 Feb 2017 (Re-publication of the article from Michigan Alumnus – always good to re-read!)

Life devoted to health, Capital Ethiopia, 7 Feb 2017

Ethiopia bans medicalization of female genital mutilation (FGM), WHO, 31 Jan 2017

Access to safe abortion care improved in Ethiopia, IPAS, 13 Jan 2017

Saving mothers’ lives (reducing maternal mortality) through integrated services, UNFPA, 1 Jan 2017

Ghana

One Maternal death and ten still births recorded at Awutu-Senya District in 2016, Ghana News Agency, 7 Feb 2017

PPAG launches 50 years Anniversary, Ghana News Agency, 4 Feb 2017

Kenya

Trump’s chilling move on women’s health, Daily Nation, 9 Feb 2017

In Kenya, midwives on motorbikes save mothers from perilous journeys, The Guardian (UK), 9 Feb 2017

JKUAT Students Develop Sophie Bot Sexual Reproductive Health App, Capital FM, 9 Feb 2017

Pokot women want husbands to support family planning, The Standard, 8 Feb 2017

Dangerously cheap: The story behind Kenya’s illegal abortions, The Star, 6 Feb 2017

Expect a rise in backstreet abortions, health experts warn, The Star, 6 Feb 2017

First lady cancels Beyond Zero Marathon, Daily Nation, 4 Feb 2017

Liberia

Dialogue Among Peace Messengers: Sexual and Reproductive health Campaign for peace in Liberia, Daily Observer, 9 Feb 2017

Lost in transition: no change for women’s rights in Liberia, ISS Africa, 8 Feb 2017

366 People Diagnosed with Cervical Cancer Annually, Daily Observer, 7 Feb 2017

Women Group Wants Female Genital Mutilation Act Put into Law, Front Page Africa, 6 Feb 2017

Malawi

Banja La Mtsogolo clocks 30 years in Malawi: Offers free sexual and reproductive health services for 90 days, Nyasa Times, 7 Feb 2017

Nigeria

Poor state of Lagos PHCs affecting FP uptake, National Mirror, 9 Feb 2017

Senate Committee: Nigeria Has Highest Maternal Mortality Rate in the World, This Day, 9 Feb 2017

Fake doctor nabbed after illegal abortion, Nigerian Tribune, 4 Feb 2017

Rwanda

How the Global Gag Rule Will Affect Young People’s SRHR , Resurj, 8 Feb 2017

Sierra Leone

President Koroma inaugurates expansion of 47 newly constructed and rehabilitated health structures across 11 districts nationwide, Awareness Times, 6 Feb 2017

Tanzania

Do not relent in fight against the female cut, The Citizen, 6 Feb 2017

End the stigma on morning-after pills, The Citizen, 6 Feb 2017

Pathfinder app helps improve post-abortion care in Tanzania, ITweb Africa, 19 Jan 2017

Uganda

10-year-old children to get family planning, The Monitor, 9 Feb 2017

Zimbabwe

Mudede digs in, Bulawayo24, 5 Feb 2017