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 – 26 January 2018
Research and Reference Engaging Men and Boys in Family Planning: A Strategic Planning Guide, Family Planning HIP, 25 Jan 2018 Integrating Family Planning Into Postpartum Care: Long-Acting Reversible Contraception, MHTF, 25 Jan 2018 Quasi-experimental...
News Review – 19 January 2018
Academic Dr. Stanley Henshaw: Reflections on Four Decades of Abortion Research, Guttmacher, 17 Jan 2018 Contraceptive Use over Five Years After Receipt Or Denial of Abortion Services, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 12...
News Review – 12 January 2018 – Individual Action for Change
Individual Action for Change Two studies show the importance of reaching individuals with information and counseling. From the Guttmacher Institute: “Post-abortion contraception counseling has the potential to help non-users [of contraception] find methods that...
News Review – 22 December 2017
Contraception Communication Trained and sensitized health care workers are essential to providing contraception to satisfy the needs of their various constituents. An interesting study in Global Health: Science and Practice looked at post-abortion contraception...
News Review – 15 December 2017
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...
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 – 24 November 2017
Family planning imperatives Simply put, “when a woman can control when she has children, she can control her future.” One article calls affordable maternity care and birth control “the foundation of a family’s...
