The Trump administration will withhold $32.5 million in funding that had been earmarked this current fiscal year for the United Nations’ lead agency on family planning and maternal health, known as the United Nations Population Fund or UNFPA. The administration says it’s doing so because it has determined that UNFPA helps to support a Chinese government… Continue reading Citing Abortions In China, Trump Cuts Funds For U.N. Family Planning Agency
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U.N. chief warns U.S. funding cut may have devastating effects
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that a decision by the United States to withdraw all funding to the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) could have “devastating effects” on vulnerable women and girls around the world, a spokesman said. The State Department said it was dropping the funding because the U.N. Population Fund “supports, or participates… Continue reading U.N. chief warns U.S. funding cut may have devastating effects
Melinda Gates: Foreign aid cuts to contraceptives in Trump's budget hurt millions of women
Last week, just a few days after the White House proposed dramatic cuts to health and development aid, I headed to Indonesia. The timing was coincidental — the trip had been planned for months — but the reason I was going happened to be especially relevant to our country’s national debate. Indonesia has strategically used foreign aid to… Continue reading Melinda Gates: Foreign aid cuts to contraceptives in Trump's budget hurt millions of women
GFPA Sensitizes CBDs on Contraceptives, Reproductive Health
The Gambia Family Planning recently trained over forty of its volunteers known as Community Based Distributors (CBDs) on reproductive health care delivery. The CBDs are responsible of the distribution of contraceptives and provide counseling services on reproductive health in their communities. The three-day forum held in Pakalinding LRR discussed modern contraceptive methods, prevention of sexually… Continue reading GFPA Sensitizes CBDs on Contraceptives, Reproductive Health
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights is key to achieving the SDGs
Consider this: As per a study by the World Bank, had the world addressed 90 percent of global unmet need for family planning by 2015, it would have reduced annual births by almost 28 million, consequently preventing 67,000 maternal deaths, 440,000 neonatal deaths, 473,000 child deaths and 564,000 stillbirths. Global data indicates that the greatest… Continue reading Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights is key to achieving the SDGs
Nomugisha on her passion for sexual reproductive health and rights
22-year-old Hellen Nomugisha is the president of African Youth and Adolescent Network on Population and Development (AFIYAN), Rwandan Chapter, a network that brings together all-youth led organisations to implement focus areas like demographic dividend, entrepreneurship, gender-based violence, and forced marriages, among other things. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in public health. She spoke to Women… Continue reading Nomugisha on her passion for sexual reproductive health and rights
A New Kind of Male Birth Control Is Coming
Novel treatment may be submitted for Indian approval this year Doctors are on the cusp of launching the first new male contraceptive in more than a century. But rather than a Big Pharma lab, the breakthrough is emerging from a university startup in the heart of rural India. Years of human trials on the injectable,… Continue reading A New Kind of Male Birth Control Is Coming
The dilemma of family planning in Pakistan
The last time the Government of Pakistan took family planning seriously was during the period of the Third Plan in the 1960s. The dawn of democracy in the country also heralded in an era where pacifying a range of stakeholders, including those at the far right of the spectrum, became de rigueur. The government began… Continue reading The dilemma of family planning in Pakistan
Uganda's Overburdened Midwives
The caseload for a midwife in the Kotido district of Karamoja, tucked in a remote part of north-eastern Uganda, strains belief: with just 18 midwives serving 9,600 mothers, according to district health officials, each midwife cares for at least 533 mothers a year. That’s more than triple the number recommended by the WHO (1 midwife/175… Continue reading Uganda's Overburdened Midwives
Q&A: UNFPA West Africa director on the security benefits of family planning
Family planning in West Africa has increased in popularity in recent years, as local religious leaders, community groups and health outreach programs have gotten behind the message. This multi-pronged approach is responsible for rising contraceptive use, according to the United Nations Population Fund West Africa Regional Director Mabingue Ngom. Places such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar… Continue reading Q&A: UNFPA West Africa director on the security benefits of family planning
