Reproductive Health Professionals Changes Lives
Individuals making a difference Amid the cacophony surrounding access to contraception and abortion rights – data reports, education initiatives, misinformation campaigns, policy disputes and legal battles (more on all of those below) – it...
A new Center of Excellence (CoE) for family planning (FP) pre-service training will be established at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC) in Addis Ababa. The goal of the Center will be to...
Context in foreign assistance Access and delivery of family planning services depend on many factors. This week saw a number of discussions and research reports about the effects of cultural sensitivity and technology appropriateness...
Good work, but much more to do New Guttmacher Institute research “estimates that the number of women of reproductive age in developing regions worldwide who have an unmet need for contraception… has improved but...
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...
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...
Medical education in Ethiopia has grown significantly in the past decade. Since new policies were introduced in 2005, capacity-building for equity in health care access has been the government’s focus. One result has been...
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...
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...
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...