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 | 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 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 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 | Mar 24, 2017 | News
This week saw more proof, if it were needed, that promoting access to family planning and contraception can have dramatic results. A report in the UK showed that teen pregnancy had halved in the past decade, and Colorado’s aggressive investment in family planning...
