Leaders gearing up for tomorrow’s Family Planning Summit in London face a steep challenge to step up family planning efforts as sharp aid cuts threaten progress.
June 9, 2017
To those of us who knew Babatunde Osotimehin, MD, he was simply “Prof.” Yes, he had many distinguished titles in his career. At the time of his death, Babatunde was the 4th executive director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the under-secretary-general of the UN. He…
June 8, 2017
Colombia’s largest family planning provider, Profamilia, chose not to comply with President Trump’s expansion of the “global gag rule” in January, forfeiting $1.2 million in USAID funds that would have gone toward services in conflict-ridden areas of the country. The…
May 15, 2017
Nominations close this Wednesday, May 17! 120 Under 40 celebrates the young people making "positive disruptions" in family planning worldwide. A number of winners may be given the opportunity to attend the 2018 ICFP in Rwanda in November 2018.
April 14, 2017
The 5th International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) will take place in Kigali, Rwanda, November 12-15, 2018, announced co-hosts the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Rwanda…
March 31, 2017
In a small win for Republicans on the heels of the failure to overhaul Obamacare, the US Senate approved legislation yesterday that will allow individual states to withhold federal family planning money from Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.
March 17, 2017
To curb rapid population growth, Niger’s government is turning to modern contraception, but struggles to get women to take it. The country’s population dramatically increased from 3.5 million in 1960 to nearly 20 million today, with 80% of people living in poverty.
February 15, 2017
Reproductive health nonprofit Pathfinder International is boosting Burkina Faso health clinics’ ability to provide contraceptive services and health care to women. Since May, the group has helped clinics perform 30-40 IUD insertions per month and counsel new mothers on…
February 7, 2017
A Q&A with MSI’s Marjorie Newman-Williams One of US President Trump’s first moves in office was signing an Executive Order to bring back the Mexico City Policy, also known as the Global Gag Rule. The policy bars non-US organizations overseas from…
January 4, 2017
Countries facing Zika outbreaks could drastically reduce the rate of infection by expanding reproductive health and family planning programs to include men, argue NIH researchers. Such programs have historically been geared almost exclusively toward women, they say. The…