Imagine giving Kenyan students something that has been proven to help them make healthy informed choices about their sexual and reproductive lives. The solution already exists: comprehensive sexuality education. To be comprehensive, sexuality education needs to be scientifically accurate, age-appropriate, nonjudgmental and gender-sensitive. The lessons should extend to prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs),… Continue reading Kenya: Sex Education Programmes in Kenyan Schools Are Failing Students
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Sending the wrong message on sex and reproductive health
DON’T DO that! No, I mean it. Really. A video called “Don’t do that”, which has been circulating recently on Myanmar social media attempts to shame and frighten young women with misinformation about unplanned pregnancies and abortions, is extremely damaging. The short film, sponsored by a popular domestic soft drinks company and produced by Myanmar… Continue reading Sending the wrong message on sex and reproductive health
Nasarawa Assembly will pass Bill for law to give family planning legal backing ―Opkede
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly will pass a bill for a law to give family planning programmes full legal backing, to effectively tackle maternal mortality in the state. Alhaji Mohammed Opkede (PDP-Doma North), Chairman, House Committee on Health, disclosed this in Akwanga at the end of 3-day workshop on “Development of the Nasarawa State… Continue reading Nasarawa Assembly will pass Bill for law to give family planning legal backing ―Opkede
Mamaye, LASG educate Amuwo-Odofin community on good maternal health
An NGO, Mamaye and the Lagos State Government on Friday said there was need for increased sensitisation on the importance of good maternal health and family planning (FP). The two bodies made the assertion at the “Lagos State Community Sensitisation on Maternal, Newborn, Child Health (MNCH) Activities’’ at Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Council headquarters in FESTAC… Continue reading Mamaye, LASG educate Amuwo-Odofin community on good maternal health
African countries to feel worst of US health aid cuts, report says
African countries, and those where abortion services are legal, will likely feel the greatest impacts of the United States’ expanded “global gag rule” — also known as the Mexico City Policy — according to new findings by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The U.S. provided bilateral global health assistance to 64 countries in Fiscal Year 2016, and… Continue reading African countries to feel worst of US health aid cuts, report says
Bajura women take to contraceptives
After bearing five children, Sunkosha Chadara of Bajura used a temporary contraceptive implant for the first time. At the suggestion of maternal infant activists, Chadara visited the health centre at her village to get a temporary implant. Similarly, Mamata Budha from the same district visited Rugin Health Post and had a Depo-Provera injection. “It is… Continue reading Bajura women take to contraceptives
To reduce maternal deaths, look to midwives
GISENYI, Rwanda – “Mothers and babies lose their lives due to complications that could have been prevented,” Burcard Umuhoza, 28, told UNFPA in a frank conversation about the trials he faces as a midwife in the Gisenyi District Hospital in Rwanda. “A challenge that hurts a lot is that some women choose to deliver their babies… Continue reading To reduce maternal deaths, look to midwives
From Crisis Comes Opportunity to Improve Refugees’ Reproductive Health
THE TARPAULIN ROOF had barely been nailed down when the maternity clinic in the Bidibidi refugee settlement in northern Uganda welcomed its first patient. A woman who had fled violence in South Sudan arrived at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) temporary health center in labor. The makeshift structure was equipped and staffed to ensure a safe delivery… Continue reading From Crisis Comes Opportunity to Improve Refugees’ Reproductive Health
Permanent contraceptive surgery killed 33 women in 10 years: RTI
A total of 33 women in the city died after undergoing tubectomy — a female sterilisation surgery — in the last ten years. The data was accessed through a query filed under Right to Information (RTI) Act by activist Chetan Kothari, who alleged that these deaths were an outcome of poor facilities in the public… Continue reading Permanent contraceptive surgery killed 33 women in 10 years: RTI
Dollars and Sense…Why Invest in Family Planning
At a time when funding for global health appears to be shrinking—and other parts of our national budget look to be getting larger and larger—I have to stop and reflect on how the limited resources for global health might be spent to have the biggest possible impact. No doubt that many people working in global… Continue reading Dollars and Sense…Why Invest in Family Planning
