by admin | May 19, 2017 | News
Access to medical facilities and supplies, trained doctors and midwives, changes in attitude and stigma, reaching people with the right information, evolved government policy, leveraged technological innovation – these are some of the most important factors in...
by admin | May 12, 2017 | News
A week of important numbers. Guttmacher released an encapsulation of what US international family planning assistance does and how it could be damaged by the Trump administration’s proposals: “In FY 2017, $607.5 million made it possible to achieve 26 million women and...
by admin | May 5, 2017 | News
Today is International Day of the Midwife, which was marked in the press and on social media with stories about the importance of midwives in maternal care, in reducing maternal deaths, and the importance the individuals can make, in Liberia, Zimbabwe, Somalia, and...
by admin | May 2, 2017 | Ethiopia, Ethiopia stories
The Ethiopian Medical Association (EMA) marked 53 years of accomplishment with its Annual Medical Conference, International Health Exhibition, Blood Donation and EMA Run from April 24-30, 2017. The conference theme was ‘Being a Doctor in Ethiopia: the Challenges and...
by admin | Apr 28, 2017 | News
The top research story of the week is a new Lancet study that concludes a $1 drug that has been around a long time – the blood-clotting aid tranexamic acid (TXA) – could save tens of thousands women who die each year from postpartum hemorrhage. CIRHT colleague Dr....
by admin | Apr 24, 2017 | Ethiopia, Our Stories
How can women’s family planning needs be better served? And how can that improvement be quantified and targeted? CIRHT is working with its partner universities from across Ethiopia to answer those questions and implement a continuing – and constant – Quality...
by admin | Apr 21, 2017 | News
A special supplement to Population and Development Review looks at Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa. Several articles of note around the fundamental issue of population growth, with the general conclusion that “in the short term, enhanced provision of family...
by admin | Apr 20, 2017 | Ethiopia, Our Stories
The Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) is confronting an enviable problem: its efforts to increase the number of medical students has proven to be so successful that there isn’t enough space at the 33 university hospitals for 20,000 students to gain their...
by admin | Apr 14, 2017 | News
Please have a look at the CIRHT-St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College Case Study, a good read about the essential work that CIRHT partners have begun. Trump’s anti-abortion surge continues, this week allowing individual states to deny Federal funding to...
by admin | Apr 7, 2017 | Botswana, Burkina FAso, Burundi, DRC, Ethiopia, Family Planning, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, News, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe
The United States again defunded international family planning efforts, withdrawing its $32.5 million funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), an agency that serves families in more than 150 countries. The State Department said the agency supports or...
