by admin | Aug 11, 2017 | News
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 on that access and delivery. The...
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 7, 2017 | News
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 about the program at Bahir Dar University in northern Ethiopia....
by admin | Jun 30, 2017 | News
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 evidence and human rights in such a contested...
by admin | Jun 23, 2017 | News
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 during childbirth,” according to Jakaya Kikwete, former...
