News Review – 10 February 2017
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
