Tag Archives: Reproductive health
Using the Demographic Dividend as Anchor to Fight COVID-19 in Africa
The Year 2020 will be remembered as the year that heralded great global changes in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. This debilitating contagion has...
Universal access to reproductive health care: A global obligation and opportunity
Eleanor Roosevelt once said universal human rights begin in the small places close to home — and there’s no area closer to home than...
Progress in family planning in Africa accelerating
A new study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows that women in eight sub-Saharan African countries are gaining...
Giving girls and women the power to decide
Access to information and services for contraception and birth spacing are critical to maternal and child health programming. It is no surprise then, that...
In West Africa, youth ambassadors serve as family planning advocates
ABIDJAN — International health experts are hopeful that a West African family planning initiative will encourage wider contraceptive use by having young people act as...
The Gates Institute Announces “The Challenge Initiative” to Provide Greater Access to Family Planning for Urban Poor in the Developing World
The Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is launching The Challenge Initiative, a...
Parliamentary Delegation on Reproductive Health & Family Planning to Senegal
Dakar, Monday 17 August 2015 – Today marks the start of a three-day Parliamentary Delegation on Reproductive Health and Family Planning to Senegal...
