News Review – 21 April 2017

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...

News Review – 14 April 2017

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...

News Review – 17 March 2017

Amid troubling news about defunding domestic and international Family Planning programs, a few beams of light showed through. The US administration proposed a budget and backed a health care plan that would slash support for Reproductive Health, contraception and...

News Review – 24 February 2017

The week began with news of the death of the woman referred to as “Jane Roe” in the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court abortion rights case. Her transformation from a staunch abortion-rights advocate to becoming a critic was seized upon as emblematic of the current...

News Review – 3 February 2017

General The Trump global gag rule: an attack on US family planning and global health aid, The Lancet (Commentary), 4 Feb 2017 Letter: Time to regulate men’s reproductive rights, Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Feb 2017 Meet the world’s new family planning leaders, Jakarta...