January 2018 Monthly News Review email and Sources
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Academic
Contraceptive Use over Five Years After Receipt Or Denial of Abortion Services, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 12 Jan 2018
Modern Contraceptive Use Increasing in Developing Nations, Endocrinology Advisor, 11 Jan 2018
Adolescents and Youth Dashboard, UNFPA, 5 Jan 2018 (Updated resource)
Policy Trends in the States, 2017, Guttmacher, 2 Jan 2018
About Half of U.S. Abortion Patients Report Using Contraception in the Month They Became Pregnant, Guttmacher, 28 Dec 2017
Re-Evaluating the Possible Increased Risk of HIV Acquisition With Progestin-Only Injectables Versus Maternal Mortality and Life Expectancy in Africa: A Decision Analysis, Global Health: Science and Practice, 28 Dec 2017
Taking Family Planning Advocacy Efforts to Scale: Results from Nusa Dua, AFP/PAI, November 2017
Algeria
Family planning, sexual and reproductive health, UNFPA, 11 Jan 2018
Burkina Faso
Santé de la reproduction à Koudougou, Faso24, 4 Jan 2018
Burundi
8 Percent of Adolescent Girls Fell Pregnant in Burundi, Reveals Isteebu Report, Iwacu, 19 Jan 2018
Cote d’Ivoire
Empowering Women with Choices to Plan Their Futures, Engender Health, 26 Jan 2018
DRC
This Congolese Girl for President, K4Health, 11 Jan 2018
Egypt
What’s being done about overpopulation in Egypt?, Egypt Today, 17 Jan 2018
Gambia
Woman, 20, died after abortion, nurse arrested, The Point, 8 Jan 2018
Kenya
African arrow poison could become male contraceptive, The Nation, 19 Jan 2018
Why NGO Wants Rollout of Sex Education Stopped, Nairobi News, 12 Jan 2018
The Kenyan Church Leader Who Became a Family Planning Champion, News Deeply, 12 Jan 2018
Give our girls a future by preventing teen pregnancy, Daily Nation, 3 Jan 2018
Ignore family planning urges Sudi, Hivisasa, 31 Dec 2017
Madagascar
Madagascar Enacts Historic Family Planning Law, Medium/FP2020, 18 Jan 2018
Malawi
Effect of family planning interventions on couple years of protection in Malawi, International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 9 Jan 2018
Woman in custody for concealing birth, Malawi News Agency, 5 Jan 2018
Namibia
In Namibia’s abortion debate, echoes of a repressive history, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan 2018
Nigeria
Nigerian govt releases $1 million for contraceptives, Premium Times, 25 Jan 2018
Checking the increasing rate of unsafe abortion, Nigerian Tribune, 18 Jan 2018
Salami: Family Planning will Save 111 Women from Dying Daily, This Day, 18 Jan 2018
Stakeholders say global gag rule is anti-women, Nigerian Tribune, 18 Jan 2018
Family Planning is the Best Way to Fight Maternal Mortality, This Day, 11 Jan 2018
Govt launches three-year plan on family health, The Nation, 6 Jan 2018
Nigeria’s population problem is the result of poor policy implementation—and it’ll only get worse, Quartz, 5 Jan 2018
Nigeria enhances maternal, child survival through family planning— Dr Mojisola Odeku, Prog Director, NURHI, Vanguard, 2 Jan 2017
The influence of the social and cultural environment on maternal mortality in Nigeria: Evidence from the 2013 demographic and health survey, PLOS One, 29 Dec 2017
Rwanda
Rwanda’s Proposed Abortion Amendment Takes Procedure Out of the Courts, News Deeply, 22 Jan 2018
Senegal
In Senegal, family planning finds a key ally: imams, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan 2018
South Africa
Did South Africa waste R127-million on a condom no one wanted?, Bhekisisa, 24 Jan 2018
Forced abortions: A new frontier in the war on women’s bodies?, Bhekisisa, 18 Jan 2018
Don’t believe the hype: The rise and fall of a perfectly good contraceptive?, Bhekisisa, 9 Jan 2018
Tanzania
Punishment won’t stop teenage pregnancies in Tanzania because ‘bad behaviour’ isn’t the cause, The Conversation, 21 Jan 2018
The Center for Reproductive Rights Denounces Arrest of Pregnant Schoolgirls in Tanzania, Center for Reproductive Rights, 16 Jan 2018
Tanzanian police arrest 5 pregnant pupils and their parents, Daily Nation, 8 Jan 2018
Uganda
Uganda’s RHU warns of impact of global gag rule on its programs, Devex, 16 Jan 2018
Zambia
Retrospective observational study of interventions to improve acceptance of long-acting reversible contraception following abortion at Lusaka Teaching Hospital, Zambia, International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics,25 Jan 2018
Southern males in branded, flavoured protection, Times of Zambia, 19 Jan 2018
Comprehensive sexual reproductive health education key in fighting early marriages- Wanchinga, Lusaka Times, 17 Jan 2018
Zimbabwe
Inconsistent laws and sexual taboos put adolescent girls’ health and futures at risk, Amnesty International, 24 Jan 2018
Global/General
A Message from Cecile Richards| Planned Parenthood Video, Planned Parenthood, 26 Jan 2018
L’autonomisation de la femme et de la révolution contraceptive., Partenariat d’Ouagadougou, 24 Jan 2018
The ‘global gag rule’ is devastating for women. Here’s how we’re fighting back., Devex, 24 Jan 2018
One year on and fighting for our futures , She Decides, 24 Jan 2018
Empowerment in the Developing World, Center for Global Development, 24 Jan 2018
Why invest in contraceptive technology innovation?, K4Health, 23 Jan 2018
Trump’s global gag rule goes far beyond abortion, groups say, AP, 23 Jan 2018
One year on, full impact of ‘global gag rule’ begins to emerge, Devex, 19 Jan 2018
Looking Ahead for 2018, Medium/FP2020, 18 Jan 2018
Access to safe, affordable birth control is a maternal health issue, Harvard Medical School, 18 Jan 2018
European Donor Support to Sexual & Reproductive Health & Family Planning: Trends Analysis 2016-17, Countdown 2030, 18 Jan 2018
Study calls for more focus on women’s choices of postabortion contraceptives, IPAS, 10 Jan 2018
Dreaming of Female Condoms, FC2, 9 Jan 2018
2020 family planning targets in doubt besides progress, Avert, 5 Jan 2018
Myth-busting facts Female Condom, IPPF, 5 Jan 2018
Trapped’ is a realistic game about how hard it is get an abortion, Daily Dot, 5 Jan 2018
EALA set to debate sexual health Bill, The East African, 3 Jan 2018
Is There A Human Right to Contraception?, Rights Info, 3 Jan 2018
Under Three Minutes, Elle UK, 3 Jan 2018
USA
The Criminalization of Abortion Began as a Business Tactic, History.com, 22 Jan 2018
How Women’s Abortion Stories Are Shattering Stigma Around The Procedure, Bustle, 22 Jan 2018
Abortion Providers Are Human Rights Workers, Motto, 19 Jan 2018
A Heartbreaking New Study Shows What Happens to Women After They Are Denied Abortions, Mother Jones, 18 Jan 2018
Taking Stock of Year One of the Trump Administration’s Harmful Agenda Against Reproductive Health and Rights, Rewire, 18 Jan 2018
Global Gag Rule, Repros Fight Back, 16 Jan 2018
Report on the State of Women’s Health Policy 2018, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, January 2018
Self-Managed Abortion and Embodying the Principles of Reproductive Justice, Rewire, 12 Jan 2018
Let’s Talk About Sex: Tips for How to Take a Sexual History, Medscape, 11 Jan 2018
Here Are 5 Ways You Can Combat Abortion Stigma, Hello Flo, 9 Jan 2018
Time’s up on controlling women’s bodies, Medium, 5 Jan 2018
Team Trump’s Audacious ‘Complicity’ Claim for Nullifying Abortion Rights, Brennan Center for Justice, 5 Jan 2018
#MeToo: A Reckoning, ReproAction, 5 Jan 2018
Birth control is every woman’s right — from those who want to prevent pregnancy, to others who use it to treat illness, LA Times, 5 Jan 2018
Population Council’s One-Year Contraceptive Ring Advances to FDA Review, Population Council, 3 Jan 2018
New Study Shows a Historic Increase in Laws Supportive of Reproductive Rights in 2017, Color Lines, 3 Jan 2018
Criminalization of Self-Induced Abortion Intimidates and Shames Women Unnecessarily, ACOG, 3 Jan 2018
How To Expand Reproductive Rights In America In 2018, Bustle, 2 Jan 2018
For reproductive rights campaigners 2017 felt like the calm before the storm, Guardian, 30 Dec 2017
