April 2019 News Review
Burkina Faso
Avortements et grossesses non-désirées – L’autre regard des leaders communautaires, Sidwaya, 18 Apr 2019
Grossesses précoces en milieu scolaire: Un « mal persistant » dans le Centre-Nord, Ouaga.com, 4 Apr 2019
Cameroon
Maimouna: offensive contre le marriage precoce, Cameroon Tribune, 2 Apr 2019
CAR
RCA: sensibilisation au contrôle des naissances à Zemio, RFI, 16 Apr 2019
Côte d’Ivoire
Santé de la reproduction et autonomisation des femmes : L’UNFPA offre des équipements médicaux et 2 tricycles à Boundiali, Fratmat, 29 Apr 2019
DRC
Kasindi : des prostituées au cœur des avortements clandestins, La Prospérité, 28 Apr 2019
Une trentaine de journalistes formés sur les questions de santé sexuelle et reproductive, ACP, 12 Apr 2019
Path – Les journalistes outillés sur le nouveau mécanisme de financement de la santé de la reproduction, La Prosperite, 5 Apr 2019
Egypt
Family planning services benefited 234,838 women in nine governorates, MENA, 10 Apr 2019
Eswatini
Death of Swaziland schoolgirl after illegal abortion highlights suffering of women in kingdom, Swazi Media Commentary, 1 Apr 2019
Ethiopia
Determinants of adolescents reproductive health service utilization in Ethiopia: a systematic review of quantitative evidence, Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics, 18 Apr 2019
Providers’ knowledge on postpartum intrauterine contraceptive device (PPIUCD) service provision in Amhara region public health facility, Ethiopia, PLOS One, 4 Apr 2019
Husbands’ involvement in family planning use and its associated factors in pastoralist communities of Afar, Ethiopia, Reproductive Health, 18 Mar 2019
Ghana
Ghana to Host Conference On Population and Development, Government of Ghana, 30 Apr 2019
Family Planning and Islam; The effectiveness of contraception in Nima, The Herald, 26 Apr 2019
Kenya
Channels of safe abortion will reduce maternal death rate, The Star, 30 Apr 2019
Harrowing stories from women who have aborted, Nairobi News, 28 Apr 2019
Standing up Against Abortion Opposition in Nairobi, Center for Reproductive Rights, 25 Apr 2019
Devolve research on unsafe abortion to find solutions, The Star, 24 Apr 2019
Anti-abortion billboards fuel stigma in Kenya, say women’s rights groups, Reuters, 24 Apr 2019
Health lobbies condemn anti-abortion billboards, The Nation, 23 Apr 2019
How Abortion Hypocrisy Kills Women, Project Syndicate, 22 Apr 2019
Address underlying causes for teen pregnancies, Daily Standard, 26 Mar 2019
Liberia
Grand Bassa Health Team Conducts Reproductive Health Training For Girls, Front Page Africa, 10 Apr 2019
Malawi
African man kills himself after village ridicules him for having too many children, Lifesite News,10 Apr 2019
NGOs build capacity of Malawian lawyers to undertake abortion litigation, CSJ News, 5 Apr 2019
Focus on Africa: Contraception blocked in Malawi following Cyclone Idai, RFI, 4 Apr 2019
Shortage of contraceptive in Malawi sparks baby-boom worry, Nyasa Times, 2 Apr 2019
Nigeria
Your choice of family planning (4), The Nation, 26 Apr 2019
NGO Donates family planning instruments to 14 Taraba LGAs, Daily Trust, 26 Apr 2019
Oyo Assembly passes Family Planning Bill, The Nation, 25 Apr 2019
Reproductive health services: Nigerian Govt. inaugurates 11 strategic documents, PM News, 24 Apr 2019
Women canvass reproductive health, family planning in Taraba, The Guardian, 23 Apr 2019
Your choice of family planning (3), The Nation, 19 Apr 2019
Family Planning: Unfriendly Care Providers Scare Adolescents At Lagos Youth-Friendly Centres, The Independent, 17 Apr 2019
Kaduna sets up 711 Family Planning service delivery points, Daily Trust, 17 Apr 2019
We are judged, harrassed at family planning centres, Vanguard, 16 Apr 2019
Family Planning: Plateau First Lady commissions 6 clinics, Daily Trust, 16 Apr 2019
Advocacy Group Harps On Family Planning To Achieve Millennium Development Goals, Leadership, 15 Apr 2019
Abia CAN President tasks group on grassroots family planning advocacy, The Sun, 14 Apr 2019
Your choice of family planning (2), The Nation, 12 Apr 2019
Nigeria’s Population Projected to Double by 2050, VOA, 12 Apr 2019
Family Planning: Use “Save One Million Lives” Fund To Boost Services – FHANI Tells Kaduna …hosts Media, Africa Prime News, 11 Apr 2019
5 health facilities get make over for better family planning services, Daily Trust, 8 Apr 2019
Maternal mortality: Experts seek support for Family Planning in Ogun, The News, 8 Apr 2019
Your choice of family planning (1), The Nation, 5 Apr 2019
Religious leaders don’t act what they preach on family planning – Expert, The News, 4 Apr 2019
Rwanda
Catholic relief services to help implement campaign centered on spreading contraception in Rwanda, Church Militant, 30 Apr 2019
Details of the Ministerial Order regulating abortion, International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion, 26 Apr 2019
New campaign seeks to tackle teenage pregnancy, promote maternal health, The New Times, 25 Apr 2019
Activists welcome Rwanda abortion pardon, The East African, 6 Apr 2019
Over 360 abortion convicts receive presidential pardon, The New Times, 4 Apr 2019
Senegal
Atelier sur l’état des lieux du Protocole de Maputo, APS, 25 Apr 2019
Rapport: de nombreuses femmes encore privees de leurs droits reproductifs: l’Unfpa appellee la Communaute international a redouble d’efforts, Le Quotidien, 17 Apr 22019
Avortement médicalisé: l’etat invité à s’adapter au Protocole de Maputo, APS, 10 Apr 2019
South Africa
Backstreet abortion from professional nurse lands woman in ICU, IOL, 24 Apr 2019
Springs hospital lays criminal charge against nurse who performed illegal abortion, News 24, 23 Apr 2019
SAfAids launches SRH mobile app, The Standard, 21 Apr 2019
International human rights norms and the South African choice on termination of pregnancy act: an argument for vigilance and modernisation, South African Journal on Human Rights, 8 Apr 2019
Tanzania
Birth control: The lingering question, The Citizen, 14 Apr 2019
Uganda
Youth petition govt on sexual and reproductive health issues, New Vision, 3 Apr 2019
Research and Resources
Abortion Stigma Among Women & Providers In Ecuador: A Research Brief, IPPF/Ibis Reproductive Health, 30 Apr 2019
Nationwide salpingectomy rates for an indication of permanent contraception before and after published practice guidelines, Contraception, 30 Apr 2019
Expanding Effective Contraceptive Options: Lessons Learned from the Introduction of the Levonorgestrel Intrauterine System (LNG-IUS) in Zambia and Madagascar, WCG Cares, 30 Apr 2019
Sources of support for and resistance to abortion training in obstetrics and gynecology residency programs., AJOG, 29 Apr 2019
Long-acting reversible contraceptive utilization after policy change increasing device reimbursement to wholesale acquisition cost in Louisiana, AJOG, 28 Apr 2019
Barriers to sexual and reproductive health and rights among women living with HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean, Avert, 26 Apr 2019
New Research From NARAL And The Harris Poll Suggests Companies Should Stand Up For Women’s Reproductive Freedom, NARAL, 23 Apr 2019
Telemedicine for medical abortion—Time to move towards broad implementation, BJOG, 22 Apr 2019
Could implementation of mifepristone address Canada’s urban–rural abortion access disparity: a mixed-methods implementation study protocol, BMJ Open, 20 Apr 2019
Novel approaches to estimating abortion incidence, Reproductive Health, 18 Apr 2019
Family planning in Pakistan: A site of resistance., Social Science & Medicine, 17 Apr 2019
New Resource: “Sam’s Medication Abortion”, Reproductive Health Access Project, 16 Apr 2019
Common contraceptive could raise TB risk, University of Cape Town, 15 Apr 2019
Pharmaceutical jewelry: Earring patch for transdermal delivery of contraceptive hormone, Journal of Controlled Release, 12 Apr 2019
Very Young Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health and Gender Program Design Guide, Save the Children, 11 Apr 2019
Follow-Up Rates And Contraceptive Choices After Medical Abortion In Adolescents At Cook County Hospital., Journal of Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology, 10 Apr 2019
World must work harder to secure sexual and reproductive rights for all, says new UNFPA report, UNFPA, 10 Apr 2019
Experiences of women who travel for abortion: A mixed methods systematic review., PLoS One, 9 Apr 2019
Trends in the method and gestational age of abortion in high-income countries, BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 8 Apr 2019
Access to sexual and reproductive health services for women living with HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean: systematic review of the literature, Journal of the International AIDS Society, 8 Apr 2019
#WorldHealthDay: 10 quick facts about health in Africa, Africa Check, 7 Apr 2019
Impacts of early marriage and adolescent pregnancy on mental and somatic health: the role of partner violence., Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 6 Apr 2019
Concept Foundation – Quality-assured mifepristone–misoprostol combi-pack, International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion, 5 Apr 2019
Birth Control Pills Tied to Reduced Risk of Deadly Ovarian Cancer, MedPage Today, 4 Apr 2019
Just the Numbers: The Impact of U.S. International Family Planning Assistance, 2019, Guttmacher, 2 Apr 2019
Intersection of State Abortion Policy and Clinical Practice, 2019, KFF, 2 Apr 2019
A Qualitative Exploration of Somali Refugee Women’s Experiences with Family Planning in the U.S., Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2 Apr 2019
Self care interventions for sexual and reproductive health and rights: costs, benefits, and financing, BMJ, 1 Apr 2019
Sexual and reproductive self care among women and girls: insights from ethnographic studies, BMJ, 1 Apr 2019
Self care interventions could advance sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian settings, BMJ, 1 Apr 2019
Story Circles and abortion stigma in Mexico: a mixed-methods evaluation of a new intervention for reducing individual level abortion stigma, Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1 Apr 2019
Adolescent Use of Combined Hormonal Contraception and Peak Bone Mineral Density Accrual, Clinical Endocrinology, 1 Apr 2019
Declaration affirms global support for reproductive health and rights, UNFPA, 1 Apr 2019
SWOP Report 2019, UNFPA, April 2019
Experiences with abortion counselling in Mexico City and Colombia: addressing women’s fears and concerns, Ibis Reproductive Health, April 2019
Safe Abortion (SA) app, Hesperian, April 2019
Students for Life Must Denounce Punishment for Abortion, Reproaction, April 2019
Oral contraceptives provide protection against anterior cruciate ligament tears: a national database study of 165,748 female patients, The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 26 Mar 2019
Global and General
Doctors Want to Test “Abortion Reversal” — and Anti-Choicers Aren’t Happy, Truth Out, 30 Apr 2019
“I’m a Life”, Alliance for Choice (Ireland), 30 Apr 2019
Abortion In The Third Trimester: A Rare Decision Now In The Political Spotlight, WBUR, 30 Apr 2019
‘Reproductive health’ does not include abortion, Vatican diplomat says at UN, Catholic Culture, 29 Apr 2019
No, the Real ‘Abortion Divide’ Is Not Between Patients and Protesters, Rewire News, 29 Apr 2019
Pills, gels, customised jockstraps: are we any closer to a male contraceptive?, The Guardian, 29 Apr 2019
Trump’s Anti-Abortion Incitement, The New York Times, 29 Apr 2019
Think sexual health isn’t linked to climate change? Think again, IPPF, 29 Apr 2019
Title X Rule Change Could Lead to More Unplanned Pregnancy, Disease Transmission, and Sex Trafficking for Foster Youth, The Chronicle of Social Change, 29 Apr 2019
This researcher interviewed 600 women at Texas abortion clinics. Here’s what she saw., Houston Chronicle, 29 Apr 2019
Will Ties To A Catholic Hospital System Tie Doctors’ Hands?, Kaiser Health News, 29 Apr 2019
Women all around the world will suffer because of Trump policies, Washington Post, 28 Apr 2019
Reproductive Health Around the World, Global Press Journal, 28 Apr 2019
In Mexico, What Happens When a Miscarriage is Treated as a Crime?, Global Press Journal, 28 Apr 2019
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from imposing new rule on family planning clinics in California, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr 2019
Is It Time to Take the Abortion Battle Hyperlocal?, Truth Out, 27 Apr 2019
Maine Voices: Denial of coverage places further burden on those seeking abortion care, Press Herald, 27 Apr 2019
Lawyers: Mississippi making abortion ‘virtually unavailable’, WLOX, 27 Apr 2019
‘A shameful week for the US:’ Trump admin guts UN resolution to end rape as weapon of war, Nation of Change, 27 Apr 2019
HuffPost Her Stories: Anti-Abortion Movie ‘Unplanned’ Is Loaded With Dangerous Lies, Huff Post, 27 Apr 2019
Gender is at the Heart of Spain’s 2019 Election, Girls Globe, 26 Apr 2019
U.S. Gag Rule Expansion Will Constrain Women’s Rights Worldwide, The Real News, 26 Apr 2019
Family planning programme in a humanistic way stressed, E-PAO (India), 26 Apr 2019
Kansas Supreme Court rules state constitution protects abortion rights, a decision that could lead to challenges in other states, Washington Post, 26 Apr 2019
U.S. judge blocks new Trump abortion rule for health clinics, Reuters, 25 Apr 2019
US Stance at UN a Backward Step on Women’s Rights, Human Rights Watch, 25 Apr 2019
Abortion under fire in Michigan: 7 bills to know about, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr 2019
Rising conservatism new challenge for family planning program, The Jakarta Post, 25 Apr 2019
Delaying Trump’s Latest Abortion Coverage Restriction Shows That When Women Speak Out, We Win, Rewire News, 24 Apr 2019
Honduras urged to put an end to birth control myths, The Guardian, 24 Apr 2019
Melinda Gates on the importance of vaccines and access to contraceptives, CNBC, 24 Apr 2019
Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ The Abortion Wars Rage On, KHN, 24 Apr 2019
Report: 60% of employees would be more loyal to a company that covered abortion care, Fast Company, 23 Apr 2019
Eliminate unsafe abortion, Kathmandu Post, 23 Apr 2019
Medical Abortions Have Changed Abortion Access — And They’re Available on the Internet, Frontline, 23 Apr 2019
Attention, Corporate America: Women Need to Know That You Support Their Reproductive Rights, Glamour, 23 Apr 2019
UN waters down rape resolution to appease US’s hardline abortion stance, The Guardian, 23 Apr 2019
How a U.N. Bid to Prevent Sexual Violence Turned Into a Spat Over Abortion, Foreign Policy, 23 Apr 2019
ICPD at 25: Unfinished Business Points to Unmet Needs, New Security Beat, 22 Apr 2019
Decriminalising abortion in Jamaica: Christians say ‘yes’, Stabrokek News, 22 Apr 2019
Fewer abortions than expected after repeal, The Times, 22 Apr 2019
Trump’s gag rule jeopardizes preventative care for women, The Hill, 22 Apr 2019
Many Saskatchewan pharmacies not stocking abortion drug, National Post, 21 Apr 2019
My life as an abortion provider: ‘It’s actually one of the safest medical procedures that we can perform’, Newsweek, 20 Apr 2019
South Australia lagging behind the nation in abortion laws, ABC News (Australia), 20 Apr 2019
Contraceptive Jewelry: A New Family Planning Approach, The Science Times, 20 Apr 2019
Male birth control pill passes human safety test., Good, 20 Apr 2019
Lawmakers call for stronger legislation for family planning, The Express Tribune (Pakistan), 20 Apr 2019
Only for ‘Naughty Girls’: Stigma Lingers After S. Korea Abortion Ban Overturned, Medscape/Reuters, 19 Apr 2019
Meet the physician battling the government’s Title X gag rule, AMA, 19 Apr 2019
‘Abortion Regret’ Shows the Long History of a Favorite Anti-Choice Talking Point, Rewire News, 19 Apr 2019
Fact-checking claims about abortion and the ‘born alive’ bill, Politifact, 19 Apr 2019
The Abortion Divide Shows a Fight Growing Ever More Bitter, Reason, 19 Apr 2019
Abortion Rights Foes Have Weaponized Zoning Regulations. Here’s How., Rewire News, 18 Apr 2019
Judge Probes Impact of ‘Abortion Gag Rule’ on Health Care Access, Courthouse News Service, 18 Apr 2019
President Trump is wrong about abortion. Take it from an abortion provider., Newsweek, 18 Apr 2019
Population dynamics central to Africa’s quest for sustainable development, UNECA, 17 Apr 2019
The Arab world’s silent reproductive revolution, Mail & Guardian, 17 Apr 2019
What’s Behind the New Wave of Six-Week Abortion Bans, Vice, 17 Apr 2019
With abortion services in the crosshairs, Planned Parenthood is reshaping its image. Will it work?, USA Today, 17 Apr 2019
There’s no proof “abortion reversals” are real. This study could end the debate., Vice, 17 Apr 2019
Ultrasound no longer required before prescription of abortion drug: Health Canada, CTV News, 16 Apr 2019
Why do Irish women still have to pay for birth control?, The Irish Times, 16 Apr 2019
Abortion Doesn’t Harm Women. Banning Abortion Harms Women., Rewire News, 15 Apr 2019
Anti-abortion does not mean pro-life, MySA, 15 Apr 2019
Unisex, Hormone-Free Oral Contraceptives Are On the Horizon — And They Will Be Free of Side Effects, Be Latina, 15 Apr 2019
How Doctors And The Church Conspired To Stop An 11-Year-Old Girl From Having An Abortion After She Was Raped (Argentina), BuzzFeed, 13 Apr 2019
“Unplanned” and shameless: Hit anti-abortion movie is a total right-wing grift, Salon, 12 Apr 2019
The Terrifying Rise of the Abortion Abolition Movement, Slate, 12 Apr 2019
Ashley Judd on her decision to get an abortion, Page Six, 12 Apr 2019
How a Long Abortion Rights Crusade Got South Korea’s 65-Year Ban Overturned, Slate, 12 Apr 2019
Gender Inequality Is Preventing Global Access to Reproductive and Sexual Health Care, Global Citizen, 11 Apr 2019
ICPD at 25: SRHR takes centre stage, FIGO, 11 Apr 2019
The “Pro-Life” Movement is Built on Christian Supremacy, and its Rhetoric is Increasingly Dangerous, ReproAction, 11 Apr 2019
Muslim minority women break barriers to embrace family planning in Nepal, UNFPA, 11 Apr 2019
Big win for women’s reproductive freedom, but still a long way to go, The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 Apr 2019
The global gag rule is a maternal health issue and here’s why, CHANGEW/Medium, 10 Apr 2019
Debate on abortion ban intensifies as decision looms, Korea Herald, 10 Apr 2019
UN population fund chief laments US funding cut, AP, 10 Apr 2019
Improving young people’s sexual and reproductive health in low-income settings, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 9 Apr 2019
Penny Mordaunt says UK will defend abortion rights amid global pushback, The Guardian, 9 Apr 2019
Accessing quality sexual and reproductive healthcare, Governance Now (India), 8 Apr 2019
Why IUDs and Birth Control Implants Are on the Rise, BU Today, 8 Apr 2019
Ombudsman actively advocates for recognition of normative basis of reproductive health and rights (Azerbaijan), International Ombudsman Institute, 8 Apr 2019
Our First Amendment rights are under assault with the global gag rule, The Hill, 7 Apr 2019
With Condom Production Crossing 2 Billion Pieces, HLL Lifecare Celebrates Golden Jubilee, India Times, 6 Apr 2019
New country programs for Senegal and Rwanda focus on entrepreneurship, the private sector and sexual rights, Africa News, 5 Apr 2019
Calling In Rather Than Calling Out: When #MeToo Meets Reproductive Justice, Rewire News, 5 Apr 2019
Public Views on Abortion Have Been Rock Steady for 40 Years, Mother Jones, 5 Apr 2019
Military Must Provide Comprehensive Contraceptive Coverage and Family Planning Care, People for the American Way, 5 Apr 2019
Primary health care helps extend sexual and reproductive health services in North Macedonia, WHO, 5 Apr 2019
DKT International Partners with Sida to Empower Women & Men to Determine Their Reproductive Destinies, AP/Business Wire, 4 Apr 2019
Looking Beyond 2020: A Roadmap for Family Planning, FP2020/Medium, 4 Apr 2019
Abortion rates increase when the U.S. cuts funding to women’s health clinics, MarketWatch, 4 Apr 2019
What lawmakers (and the rest of us) get wrong about ‘late-term’ abortions, NPR, 4 Apr 2019
Impossible to possible-abortion provision in Ireland, TEDx University College Cork, 3 Apr 2019
She invented a birth control app – with some unintended consequences, The Guardian, 1 Apr 2019
Touching Hearts, Changing Minds: The Power of Storytelling in the Global Family Planning Movement, FP2020, 1 Apr 2019
The Stories That Stuck With Us, FP2020, 1 Apr 2019
Trump administration gives $5.1m family planning grant to centres that oppose abortion and don’t offer contraceptives, The Independent, 1 Apr 2019
European Parliament endorses strong position on family planning, sexual and reproductive health and rights, EPF, 27 Mar 2019
