March 2018 Monthly News Review
Education and Male Involvement in Family Planning The first step towards effective family planning is comprehensive sex education so that girls and boys, women and men, are able to make informed decisions. A family...
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February 2018 Monthly News Review
African debates As in debates in Ireland, Poland and the US among other countries, the tension between reform and tradition over increased access to sex education, contraception choice and safe abortion was evident across...
January 2018 Monthly News Review email and Sources
For the full Monthly email, click here Academic Contraceptive Use over Five Years After Receipt Or Denial of Abortion Services, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 12 Jan 2018 Modern Contraceptive Use Increasing in...
News Review – 5 January 2018
The Value of Family Planning The UK Department for International Development (DFID) issued a tidy summary of the value of money spent on family planning: £225 million through 2022, “will every year help save...
News Review – 1 December 2017
AIDS, Family Planning and Reproductive Justice International AIDS Day on December 1st gave an opportunity to explore the link between access to family planning services and combatting HIV, which can both be related to...
News Review – 17 November 2017
#ThanksBirthControl Day There is so much for which to thank birth control, which came out in articles and social media on November 15. A study by the University of Michigan Institute of Healthcare Policy...
News Review – 10 November 2017
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...
News Review – 27 October 2017
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,...
News Review – 20 October 2017
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...
News Review – 6 October 2017
Leadership! Dr. Natalia Kanem was named as the new Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). A Panamanian and the first Latin American to take the post, she had served as Acting...
