December 2019 News Review
Botswana
Teenage Pregnancy Dismays Thankane, Daily News, 5 Dec 2019
Burkina Faso
Inquiétudes d’une déplacée interne « Si je tombe enceinte dans ces conditions… », Sidwaya, 26 Dec 2019
Santé sexuelle et reproductive – A la découverte du préservatif féminin, L’Observateur Paalga, 17 Dec 2019
Mise en œuvre des droits reproductifs : Le Burkina et la Côte d’Ivoire accordent leurs violons, Burkina 24, 12 Dec 2019
Les réseaux au service de la PF – 1 800.000 connexions atteintes en un an au pays, Sidwaya, 5 Dec 2019
Cote d’Ivoire
Avortement non médicalisé: une aide-soignante ivoirienne raconte sa mésaventure, APA News, 31 Dec 2019
Le taux de prévalence de la planification familiale est de 21% en Côte d’Ivoire ( Dr Tanoh Gnou), APA News, 16 Dec 2019
Contraception, Grossesses à risques … : Cap sur la sensibilisation à outrance, Abidjan.net, 9 Dec 2019
DRC
Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: Challenges and Progress, Guttmacher, December 2019
Egypt
Egypt’s New Family Planning Initiative Will Provide Free Services To All, Scoop Empire, 5 Dec 2019
Ethiopia
Unmet need for family planning and associated factors among currently married reproductive age women in Tiro Afeta District, South West Ethiopia, 2017: cross-sectional study, BMC Women’s Health, 30 Dec 2019
Unmet Need for Contraception Among Young Married Women in Eastern Ethiopia, Open Access Journal of Contraception, 17 Dec 2019
Factors affecting demand for modern contraceptives among currently married reproductive age women in rural Kebeles of Nunu Kumba district, Oromia, Ethiopia, Contraception and Reproductive Medicine, 5 Dec 2019
Application of behavioral economics principles to reduce injectable contraceptive discontinuation in rural Ethiopia: A stratified-pair, cluster-randomized field trial, Gates Open Research, 20 Nov 2019
Gabon
Midwives and Post-abortion Care in Gabon: “Things have really changed”, Health and Human Rights Journal, 9 Dec 2019
Gambia
The Gambia’s Political Transition to Democracy: Is Abortion Reform Possible?, Health and Human Rights Journal, 9 Dec 2019
Ghana
Wawa Aba platform to revolutionize access to reproductive health, Ghana News Agency, 30 Dec 2019
Stigmatisation prevents teenage mothers from going back to school, Ghana Web, 29 Dec 2019
Minister urges Ghanaians to eliminate social stigma that hinders SRH education, Ghana News Agency, 21 Dec 2019
Expert cites parental neglect as cause of adolescent reproductive health challenges in UER, Ghanaian Times, 10 Dec 2019
ICPD+25, my best ever experience as SRHR advocate, AllAfrica/PLAN International, 10 Dec 2019
Kenya
Abortion death suspect remanded, The Star, 23 Dec 2019
Chemist gave me abortion drug, woman says after miscarriage, The Star, 23 Dec 2019
Regulating pharmacists as contraception providers: A qualitative study from Coastal Kenya on injectable contraception provision to youth, PLOS One, 19 Dec 2019
Criminalizing Adolescence: A Call to Reform the Sexual Offences Act in Kenya, Center for Reproductive Rights and Federation of Women Lawyers, Kenya, 13 Dec 2019
Family planning, matter of life and death for Kenya’s women, The Star, 8 Dec 2019
Innovative approaches to improving contraceptive access in Kenya, Devex, 5 Dec 2019
Kenya scores highly in Africa on ease of access to contraceptives, Daily Nation, 4 Dec 2019
Lesotho
Kingdom of Lesotho: Facts and Prospects, UNFPA, 16 Dec 2019
Malawi
NGO Urges Malawi to End Unsafe Abortions Through Law Reform, CSJ News, 23 Dec 2019
Delivering Family Planning to Rural Customers: Are Mobile Pharmacies ‘Just What the Doctor Ordered’?, Next Billion/WDI, 4 Dec 2019
Morocco
Non-marital Pregnancies and Unmarried Women’s Search for Illegal Abortion in Morocco, Health and Human Rights Journal, 9 Dec 2019
Mozambique
IOM Launches Project to Promote Reproductive Health and Rights in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, IOM/Reliefweb, 4 Dec 2019
Namibia
Facts and Prospects – Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights 2019, UNFPA, 31 Dec 2019
Gender Links wants apartheid laws on sexual and reproductive rights reviewed, Namibian Broadcasting Corporation, 20 Dec 2019
Niger
Hausse Du Taux De Prévalence Contraceptive Au Niger : Le Pays A Capitalisé Les Expériences Et Les Pratiques Innovantes, Le Sahel, 27 Dec 2019
Nigeria
Sub-national levels and trends in contraceptive prevalence, unmet need, and demand for family planning in Nigeria with survey uncertainty, BMC Public Health, 30 Dec 2019
2,700 Gombe adolescents trained in reproductive health, Punch, 30 Dec 2019
How preference for male child fuels maternal morbidity, mortality, The Guardian, 29 Dec 2019
Emir Sanusi educates Nigerians on family planning, PM News, 27 Dec 2019
RSG Committed To Sustaining Family Planning – Dep Gov, The Tide, 25 Dec 2019
Family planning as panacea for abortion, population management, PM News, 13 Dec 2019
Catholic Bishops Kick Against Outcome Of Conference On Population, Development, The Independent, 12 Dec 2019
End the ‘Global Gag Rule’, Boston Globe, 10 Dec 2019
Man, 22, In Police Net For Allegedly Procuring Abortion For 17-Year-Old Girl, Nigerian Tribune, 9 Dec 2019
Why Adoption Of Family Planning Is Low In North – Emir, Leadership, 2 Dec 2019
Sexual Reproductive Health: Role of Media, The Nigerian Observer, 2 Dec 2019
Republic of Congo
Santé de la reproduction – Le document des normes et procédures se précise, Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 13 Dec 2019
Rwanda
Sexual justice: The place of women’s sexuality in society, The New Times, 29 Dec 2019
Development and Uptake of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Services in Rwanda, 2009–2016, Journal of Women’s Health, 10 Dec 2019
Senegal
Légalisation de l’avortement médicalisé – Le pays, au défi de la culture et la religion, Sud Quotidien, 18 Dec 2019
Me Gomis Henri Valentin Blaise – «Pour qu’une convention soit applicable sur le territoire national, il faut une loi nationale dite de reception de la norme internationale», Sud Quotidien, 18 Dec 2019
Sierra Leone
Ban On Pregnant Schoolgirls Ruled Unlawful, Amnesty International, 11 Dec 2019
South Africa
Dora Nginza abortion clinic debacle sparks crisis, The Herald, 23 Dec 2019
Predictors of contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) aged 15 to 24 years in South Africa: results from the 2012 national population-based household survey, BMC Women’s Health, 12 Dec 2019
The health minister needs to provide an accurate answer about abortion services in SA, Daily Maverick, 11 Dec 2019
Cape Town ‘anti-abortion doctor’ pleads not guilty to charges, Daily Maverick, 10 Dec 2019
Our Bodies, Our Selves – Towards Reproductive Justice in South Africa, Daily Maverick, 4 Dec 2019
South Sudan
South Sudanese women seek empowerment with family planning, Xinhua, 16 Dec 2019
Sudan
The Politicization of Abortion and Hippocratic Disobedience in Islamist Sudan, Health and Human Rights Journal, 24 Oct 2019
Tanzania
It’s time to act: Deaths and morbidity from unsafe abortion, IPP media, 30 Dec 2019
Women’s Perspectives on Postpartum Intrauterine Devices in Tanzania, Studies in Family Planning, 21 Nov 2019
Togo
Are Women in Lomé Getting Their Desired Methods of Contraception? Understanding Provider Bias from Restrictions to Choice, Open Access Journal of Contraception, 5 Dec 2019
Tunisia
The Right to Abortion in Tunisia after the Revolution of 2011: Legal, Medical, and Social Arrangements as Seen through Seven Abortion Stories, Health and Human Rights Journal, 9 Dec 2019
Uganda
The nightmare of a failed ‘birth control’, Daily Monitor, 17 Dec 2019
Availability of reproductive health commodities still low in health facilities – study, Daily Monitor, 11 Dec 2019
Can family planning save Uganda’s forests, wetlands?, Daily Monitor, 11 Dec 2019
Can family planning protect the environment?, NTV, 9 Dec 2019
Zambia
UNFPA warns against unsafe pregnancies, Zambia Daily Mail, 25 Dec 2019
Zimbabwe
SAYWHAT launches app to enhance youth reproductive health information, New Zimbabwe, 11 Dec 2019
Lack of Access to Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, the Worst Form of GBV, 263 Chat, 2 Dec 2019
Research and Resources
A Crash Course on the Male Reproductive System for Anyone Who Needs It, The Swaddle, 30 Dec 2019
What to Expect After an Abortion, Yahoo!, 27 Dec 2019
Funding for sexual and reproductive health and rights in low- and middle-income countries: threats, outlook and opportunities, EIN/PMNCH, 23 Dec 2019
Challenges abound for women’s sexual and reproductive rights, BMJ, 23 Dec 2019
Choices and services related to contraception in the Gaza strip, Palestine: perceptions of service users and providers, BMC Women’s Health, 19 Dec 2019
Abortion Onscreen in 2019, ANSIRH, 18 Dec 2019
Family Planning Market Report, Clinton Health Access Initiative, 18 Dec 2019
WHO essential medicines for reproductive health, BMJ Global Health, 17 Dec 2019
Impact of State-Level Changes on Maternal Mortality: A Population-Based, Quasi-Experimental Study, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 16 Dec 2019; see also U.S. state laws contributing to rises in pregnancy-related deaths, Reuters, 20 Dec 2019
‘Leaving no one behind’: a scoping review on the provision of sexual and reproductive health care to nomadic populations, BMC Women’s Health, 16 Dec 2019
Facts and Prospects: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights 2019, UNFPA, 16 Dec 2019
Research Shows How Providers in Catholic Health Systems Use Workarounds to Provide Contraception, Newswise/University of Chicago, 12 Dec 2019
Global Telehealth for Women’s Reproductive and Sexual Health Market is Expected to Reach US$ 215.70 Million by 2027, Growing at an Estimated CAGR of 16.6% Over the Forecast Period, Cision/Absolute Market Insights, 12 Dec 2019
A systematic review of the effectiveness of counselling strategies for modern contraceptive methods: what works and what doesn’t?, BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 11 Dec 2019
What to know about getting pregnant after an abortion, Medical News Today, 11 Dec 2019
State Policy Trends 2019: A Wave of Abortion Bans, But Some States Are Fighting Back, Guttmacher, 10 Dec 2019
Global Hormonal Contraceptives Market Report 2020: Market was Valued at $13.36 Billion in 2018 and is Expected to Grow to $15.39 Billion, ResearchAndMarkets.com/Business Wire, 9 Dec 2019
The Limits of the Law: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa, Progress toward Decriminalization of Abortion and Universal Access to Safe Abortions: National Trends and Strategies, Health and Human Rights Journal, 9 Dec 2019
Mifepristone Antagonization With Progesterone to Prevent Medical Abortion, Obstetrics & Gynecology, 5 Dec 2019; see also Safety Problems Lead To Early End For Study Of ‘Abortion Pill Reversal’, NPR, 5 Dec 2019
Abortions Later in Pregnancy, KFF, 5 Dec 2019
Oral Contraception Linked to Smaller Hypothalamus, MedScape, 5 Dec 2019
Understanding Pregnancy Loss in the Context of Abortion Restrictions and Fetal Harm Laws, KFF, 4 Dec 2019
Demand for Self-Managed Medication Abortion Through an Online Telemedicine Service in the United States, AJPH, 4 Dec 2019
Using Evidence to Drive Impact: Developing the FP Goals Impact Matrix, Studies in Family Planning, 3 Dec 2019
Calls for emergency contraception to be available without a pharmacist consultation, Pharmaceutical Journal, 2 Dec 2019
Preventing unsafe abortion, WHO HRP, December 2019
Consolidated guideline on sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV – Web annex: Community-led strategies for implementation, WHO HRP, December 2019
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Progress in the 25 Years Since the International Conference on Population and Development and Prospects for the Next 25 years, Journal of Adolescent Health, December 2019
Global and General
Why Is There No Male Birth Control Yet?, Gizmodo, 30 Dec 2019
Culion winning fight vs teenage pregnancies through education, health, Rappler (Philippines) 29 Dec 2019
Seven of the worst Fox News freakouts about abortion this year, Media Matters for America, 28 Dec 2019
Worried about abortion laws? Catholic hospital mergers also seen as threat to women’s health care, USA Today, 27 Dec 2019
The Telemedicine Abortion Debate Heats Up in The Nation’s Capital, mHealth Intelligence, 27 Dec 2019
TV Shows Are Talking About Abortion More Than Ever — But They’re Still Getting Some Things Wrong, MTV, 27 Dec 2019
A woman’s clitoris has greater role than providing sexual pleasure, Daily Mirror, 26 Dec 2019
Inside the conservative organization undermining abortion access one state at a time, Mic, 26 Dec 2019
The high price of abortion restrictions, The Hill, 25 Dec 2019
Sexual and reproductive rights: Why we need to promote women’s power to decide, The News Minute (India), 24 Dec 2019
U.S. State Laws Contributing to Rises in Pregnancy-Related Deaths, MedScape/Reuters, 23 Dec 2019
How to Have Meaningful Conversations With Anti-Choice Relatives Over the Holidays, Rewire, 23 Dec 2019
The Madrid Declaration – a tool to improve sexual and reproductive health in Europe, aidsmap, 23 Dec 2019
The downfall of Roe v. Wade started in 2010, Vox, 23 Dec 2019
Preachers campaign for reproductive health, The Jakarta Post, 23 Dec 2019
The Clinic Revolutionizing Care for Women Who Want Babies—and Women Who Don’t , Daily Beast, 22 Dec 2019
New Affordable Care Act Rule Requires Insurers to Bill For Abortion Coverage Separately, Newsweek, 20 Dec 2019
2019 Was a Terrible Year for Abortion Rights. TV Did Better – Kind Of, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec 2019
Reproductive rights: abortion decriminalised in Northern Ireland but women’s rights under siege elsewhere, International Bar Association, 20 Dec 2019
My Patient Asked If She’d Be Sentenced to Death for Having an Abortion, Vice, 19 Dec 2019
Michigan Republicans poised to bypass Whitmer, ban abortion procedure, The Bridge, 18 Dec 2019
Oakland Co. partnering with Planned Parenthood, approves $500K for reproductive health care, WXYZ, 18 Dec 2019
When Catholic hospitals merge, reproductive services can change, Wisconsin Watch, 18 Dec 2019
“Born-Alive” Abortion Survivors Will Be the GOP’s Secret Weapon in 2020, Political Research Associates, 18 Dec 2019
Argentina’s New Government Moves to Guarantee Access to Abortion in Rape Cases, MedScape/Reuters, 17 Dec 2019
5 Podcasts on Reproductive Rights that Will Vastly Improve Your Life in 2020, Jewschool, 17 Dec 2019
The Last Decade Was Disastrous for Abortion Rights. Advocates Are Trying To Figure Out What’s Next., Buzzfeed, 17 Dec 2019; see also 2010-2019: This decade in sexual and reproductive health & rights, IPPF, 17 Dec 2019
Scientists wrong to put burden of saving the planet on the world’s poor women, Miami Herald, 17 Dec 2019
Ohio Bill: Transplant an Ectopic Pregnancy, or Go to Jail, MedPage Today, 17 Dec 2019
When It Comes To Reproductive Choice, Filmmaker Maxine Trump Is Not Kidding Around, Forbes, 16 Dec 2019
I Went Undercover in the Anti-Abortion Movement—and Found Hypocrisy and Misogyny, Ms. magazine, 16 Dec 2019
Trump Judge Katsas Cuts Off Judicial Review of Controversial Family Planning Funding Decisions: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears, People for the American Way, 16 Dec 2019
States That Ban Abortion Should Pay the People Forced to Give Birth, Vice, 16 Dec 2019
Amy Klobuchar: ‘I will reverse Trump abortion policies in the first 100 days’, The Guardian, 14 Dec 2019
Women Have Always Had Abortions, The New York Times, 13 Dec 2019
Court strikes down Mississippi 15-week abortion ban, CNN, 13 Dec 2019
Three-fold uptake in contraceptive implants since government funding introduced, Stuff (NZ), 13 Dec 2019
Trump’s Anti-Abortion and Anti-Immigration Policies May Share a Goal, Time, 13 Dec 2019
Georgia Is Funneling Millions of Dollars to Fake Abortion Clinics, Vice, 13 Dec 2019
What It’s Like to Endure a Forced Ultrasound Before Your Abortion, New York magazine, 13 Dec 2019
German doctor fined again over abortion advertising ban, AP, 12 Dec 2019
Family planning helped reduce number of poor by 5.9M, Inquirer (Philippines), 12 Dec 2019
Planned Parenthood Brings Reproductive Health Services to High Schools, Romper, 12 Dec 2019
The Battle for Abortion Access Is In the States, ACLU, 11 Dec 2019
Why Women on the Pill Still ‘Need’ to Have Their Periods, The New York Times, 11 Dec 2019
Dramatic drop in abortion providers as states target clinics with restrictive laws, CBS, 11 Dec 2019
Prominent anti-abortion chief warned of Muslims ‘replacing’ Christian Europeans, The Guardian, 11 Dec 2019
Sexual and Reproductive Health: It’s a Human Right in Every Setting, Reliefweb/Women’s Refugee Committee, 10 Dec 2019
Family planning program that excludes Planned Parenthood has nearly 75% drop in people using services, Des Moines Register, 10 Dec 2019
Pro-choice activists launch abortion initiative in Poland, The Guardian, 10 Dec 2019
A Person Getting an Abortion Is Like a Person Getting an Abortion, Vice, 10 Dec 2019
The Trump Administration’s Grades for Sexual and Reproductive Rights Are In, Newsweek, 10 Dec 2019
How Crisis Pregnancy Centers Endanger the Health and Rights of Women of Color, Ms. magazine, 9 Dec 2019
Why Abortion Doulas Matter, Even When We’re Just Showing Up, The Nation, 9 Dec 2019
U.S. Supreme Court leaves in place Kentucky abortion restriction, Reuters, 9 Dec 2019
A Once-a-month oral contraceptive pill is now in development, RSVP Live, 8 Dec 2019
New Ohio abortion bill getting international attention, NBC4, 8 Dec 2019
Jameela Jamil Said Her Abortion Was “Not A Mistake” In A Candid Tweet, Bustle, 8 Dec 2019
It Took Almost 50 Years, But TV Is Finally Getting Abortion Stories (Mostly) Right, Refinery29, 6 Dec 2019
Nepal makes first ‘period hut’ arrest after woman dies during banned custom, The Guardian, 6 Dec 2019
Young Advocates, Political Will Drive Progress on Family Planning in Francophone West Africa, IntraHealth, 5 Dec 2019
Hundreds of lawyers share their own abortion stories with U.S. Supreme Court ahead of landmark case, Washington Post, 5 Dec 2019
Women artists fight for reproductive rights with US election fundraising show, The Art Newspaper, 5 Dec 2019
Celebrating Female Community Health Volunteers, FIGO, 5 Dec 2019
Once-a-month birth control pill? Experiment works in animals, AP, 4 Dec 2019
What You Need to Know About the Politics of Abortion Access Right Now, Planned Parenthood, 4 Dec 2019
The Ohio abortion bill is a terrifying sign of things to come, The Guardian, 4 Dec 2019
‘We Have Sexual Desires, Too’ – Young Women With Disabilities Demand Access to Information and Services, UNFPA, 3 Dec 2019
From crumbling abortion access to anti-cancer vaccines: A decade in reproductive health, ABC, 3 Dec 2019
Alabama filmmaker adapts her abortion story for big screen, AL.com, 3 Dec 2019
