by admin | Jul 28, 2017 | News
US Family Planning Policy and Funding The end of the week saw the defeat of the Republican Party’s attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). For the moment, that eliminates the threat to maternal care insurance coverage or funding for family planning...
by admin | Jul 27, 2017 | Ethiopia, Our Stories
When the first class of OB-Gyn residents graduated from St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College in July 2016, they knew they were trailblazers. With 60 residents in the three years behind them at the college, they would be called upon to teach and mentor as...
by admin | Jul 21, 2017 | News
Investing in Family Planning Investment in family planning training, access and service has been proven again and again to be valuable – with improved health outcomes as well as economic and environmental benefits. The opposite has also been shown: restrict access,...
by admin | Jul 19, 2017 | Ethiopia, Our Stories
The University of Gondar (UoG) has presented the Center for International Reproductive Health Training (CIRHT) with the “Best Partner of the Year” award. UoG, one of the oldest medical schools in Ethiopia, is one of CIRHT’s ten partner institutions in Ethiopia,...
by admin | Jul 17, 2017 | Ethiopia, Our Stories
At an environmental conference center above Addis Ababa, some 160 academics, researchers, students and staff from 23 Ethiopian institutions and the University of Michigan gathered for three days of dialogue and information-sharing. The third annual Ethiopia Michigan...