News Review – 19 January 2018
Academic
Dr. Stanley Henshaw: Reflections on Four Decades of Abortion Research, Guttmacher, 17 Jan 2018
Contraceptive Use over Five Years After Receipt Or Denial of Abortion Services, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 12 Jan 2018
Burundi
8 Percent of Adolescent Girls Fell Pregnant in Burundi, Reveals Isteebu Report, Iwacu, 19 Jan 2018
Egypt
What’s being done about overpopulation in Egypt?, Egypt Today, 17 Jan 2018
Kenya
African arrow poison could become male contraceptive, The Nation, 19 Jan 2018
Debate in Kenya: What to tell kids about sex, Deutsche Welle, 16 Jan 2018
Why Kenya has pushed two children per woman policy ahead, The Standard, 13 Jan 2018
After safe abortions, 20 girls return to class, The Star, 13 Jan 2018
Madagascar
Madagascar Enacts Historic Family Planning Law, Medium/FP2020, 18 Jan 2018
Mozambique
“For people who live too far from the hospital to receive treatment, this programme saves their lives.”, IPPF, 19 Jan 2018
Nigeria
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: Odeku tasks LASG on grassroots participation, Vanguard, 16 Jan 2017
FG’s investment in family planning will reduce maternal death by 30% – Dr Habeeb Salami, Vanguard, 16 Jan 2017
South Africa
Forced abortions: A new frontier in the war on women’s bodies?, Bhekisisa, 18 Jan 2018
Removing contraception injection would lead to more deaths: study, Sunday Times, 15 Jan 2018
Tanzania
The Center for Reproductive Rights Denounces Arrest of Pregnant Schoolgirls in Tanzania, Center for Reproductive Rights, 16 Jan 2018
Uganda
Uganda’s Mbarara District Directs Health Facilities to Designate Youth-friendly Health Service Days, including Family Planning, Advance Family Planning, 17 Jan 2018
Uganda’s RHU warns of impact of global gag rule on its programs, Devex, 16 Jan 2018
Zambia
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
Global/General
In contraceptive tech, the app’s guess is as good as yours, Wired, 19 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
Greater efforts needed to meet international family planning goals, United News of India, 17 Jan 2018
YouTube censors lifesaving abortion information, Women on Waves, 16 Jan 2018
‘Press 1’ for Family Planning, Johns Hopkins CCP, 16 Jan 2018
Next-gen contraceptives are coming, The Memo, 15 Jan 2018
Future of Intrauterine Contraceptive Devices Market : Market Attractiveness, Global Competitive Landscape and Forecasts to 2025, Open PR, 15 Jan 2018
Study calls for more focus on women’s choices of postabortion contraceptives, IPAS, 10 Jan 2018
USA
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
