Reproductive Health Professionals Changes Lives
Capacity-building A core principle of CIRHT’s work is increasing capacity for doctors, nurses, and midwives to provide compassionate, comprehensive family planning services to women and girls, including contraception and abortion care. The CIRHT focus...
Population Council “Ideas that Changed the world” The week saw a celebration of the Population Council’s 65th anniversary, for which they released “10 Ideas the Changed the World.” Taking their lead, some of those...
Child Marriage and Reproductive Rights A high-level meeting to accelerate action against child marriage in West and Central Africa convened in Senegal, to agree on tangible steps toward ending the practice for good. Per UNFPA,...
Worlds apart: Reproductive health and rights in an age of inequality The comprehensive UNFPA State of World Population 2017 report has detailed information about how gender inequality, and specifically denial of reproductive rights, “threatens social...
A week of days… Contraception World Contraception Day gave a spotlight to efforts around the world to increase access, investment and understanding. The essential point: 214 million women have an unmet need for modern...
Global trends, reports and movements As the world prepares for the UNGA, a number of relevant global reports were released to set the agenda. The Lancet launched a commission for the future of health...
Youth Family planning programs can only be judged to be effective when young people around the world fully embrace them. Across Africa, youth SRHR engagement programs are working to educate, change perceptions, and give...
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...
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...
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...
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