Reproductive Health Professionals Changes Lives
Improving laparoscopic surgical services is one way in which CIRHT is supporting its 10 partner university medical schools and their associated teaching hospitals. Skills training using advanced and basic “lapsim” devices is being introduced...
It was a busier week than most resulting in a much longer weekly compendium. London Family Planning Summit More than 60 governments and partners met in London last week, collectively announcing some $2.5 billion...
Ethiopia This week coming to you from Addis Ababa, where we are looking at the implementation of family planning curricula and service delivery. For more on CIRHT’s activities see our website and a video...
CIRHT organized a Family Planning (FP) and Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) undergraduate medical curriculum content standardization workshop on March 8 and 9, 2017 in Addis Ababa, collaborating with CIRHT’s ten university partners to develop...
SRHR Crossroads Sexual health and reproductive rights are at a crossroad, according to an editorial in The Lancet, which summarizes that, “there is perhaps no area of health where politics and ideological beliefs meet...
Midwives in Toronto, global RH HR needs “Maternal mortality is the highest health inequity in the world, and midwives are the best-skilled birth attendants who can save the lives of mothers and children...
Demographic Dividend? How will the “Demographic Dividend” pay out? The question got a lot of attention as the Day of the African Child approached. At a G20 conference, Jamie Drummond, a co-founder of ONE,...
The family planning and reproductive health world mourned the unexpected death of UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, who called himself an ‘Honorary Woman’ and insisted that “family planning is not a privilege but...
Getting rid of the stigma and discrimination that surrounds menstruation in many places, ending the difficulties girls and women around the world encounter, and encouraging education, more communication, and access to supplies, were all...
Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus Adhanom, the former foreign minister and health minister of Ethiopia, was elected to head the World Health Organization, the first African to hold the post. He immediately stated that his goal...
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