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GUATEMALA: Sex Education, Family Planning Finally Available
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | about 3 hours ago
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Social organisations in Guatemala are celebrating the entry into effect of a family planning law that will usher sex education into the country's classrooms and facilitate access to birth control methods, as a victory in the fight against the country's...
Tags: Guatemalan Social Security Institute, family planning, Guatemala City, sex education, Catholic Church, infant mortality, planning law, Mirna Montenegro, IPS, birth control, Guatemala, Demography, Maternal death, Abortion, Social Issues, Population, Reproductive health, Obstetrics, Pregnancy
Mobile phone to partner in family planning
Mumbai :: India | 1 day ago
Credibility In a new development, the mobile phone might become an important tool in managing reproduction health. Scientists at the Institute of Reproductive Health at Georgetown University in the US have developed a new phone based software, which informs women...
Tags: mobile phones, family planning, CycleTel, Jeannette Cachan, India, Mumbai, Health Medical Pharma, Demography, Calendar-based methods, Fertility, Gynecology, Menstrual cycle, Social Issues, Reproductive health, Fertility awareness, Technology Internet, Public health
Vaccination Campaign In Liberia; Cell Phones For Family Planning Services; Global Fund In Myanmar
Yangon :: Myanmar | 2 days ago
Credibility Liberia Aims To Reach 3M With Yellow Fever Vaccine Liberia's Daily Observer reports on a yellow fever vaccination campaign to begin this week that will aim to inoculate 3 million Liberians. WHO, the initiative is in response to "the discovery of more...
Tags: global funding, family planning, cells phones, Liberia, Myanmar, Yangon, Tuberculosis, Healthcare, Kaiser Family Foundation, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, Burma, Global health, Public health, International nongovernmental organizations, Social Issues, Health Medical Pharma
When a Woman's Body Becomes the Domain of the State, Part II
Beijing :: China | 4 days ago
Credibility Part I on this coverage of the Lantos Commission hearing dealt with the trauma of undergoing a forced abortion through the testimony of an anonymous victim of the procedure. Those of us who were present at this heart-wrenching account of a young woman...
Tags: China Aid Association, US State Department China, child policy, family plan, forced abort, Uyghur Population Subject, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Uyghurs, Rebiya Kadeer, Reid, China, Beijing, Demography, One-child policy, Compulsory sterilization, Family planning, Birth control, Population, Fertility, Social Issues
UNFPA champions cause of women
Kingston :: Jamaica | 4 days ago
Credibility Sunday November 22, 2009 A family recieves family planning advice at Kivunge Hospital, Zanzibar...State of World Population Report 2009 , which was launched on Wednesday, November 18...Findings of the study, which are supported by World Bank data, show...
Tags: UNFPA Country Programme, climate change, Caribbean, Thorya Obiad, Jamaica, Kingston, Reproductive health, Family planning, Americans for UNFPA, Population, Demography, United Nations Population Fund, Environment, Social Issues
Activists denounce Uganda's homosexuality bill
Kampala :: Uganda | 6 days ago
Credibility A Ugandan government bill that is advocating the death penalty for gay people will hinder the country's fight against HIV/Aids, legal experts and activists warned this week. Under the anti-homosexuality bill, now going through parliament, anyone repeatedly...
Tags: Uganda Ugandan, family planning, Kampala, Yoweri Museveni, world cup, Janet Museveni, Uganda, LGBT rights in Uganda, Uganda since, Presidents of Uganda, Social Issues
'In 40 yrs, India will be most populous'
Mumbai :: India | 6 days ago
Credibility China will become the second-most populous nation with 1,417 million people by 2050. Currently, China is the most populated country in the world with 1,345.8 million people...But China's strict family planning measures such as 'one family, one child'...
Tags: India, China, fertility rate, Mumbai, Total fertility rate, Fertility, Family planning, Americans for UNFPA, Demography, Population, United Nations Population Fund, Social Issues
AFRICA: Growing Use of Cellphones for Family Planning
Nairobi :: Kenya | 6 days ago
Credibility The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information. "The number of mobile subscribers is increasing at a dramatic rate with the number...
Tags: family planning, mobile phones, free line, mobile technology, planning information, Kenya, Nairobi
UGANDA: HIV-positive women need family planning services, study shows
Kampala :: Uganda | 6 days ago
Credibility HIV-positive women in western Uganda want fewer children than women not living with the virus, but often do not have access to family planning services, a new study reveals. The study of 421 women in the district of Kabarole found that the probability...
Tags: family planning, positive women, Uganda, Kampala, HIV, Birth control, Circumcision and HIV, HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China, HIV/AIDS, AIDS, Condom, Social Issues, Health Medical Pharma, Obstetrics, Maternal health, Millennium Development Goals, Reproductive health, United Nations Population Fund, Population, Demography, Public health
Role Women Play In Efforts To Fight Climate Change
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 8 days ago
Credibility Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid. “With the possibility of a climate catastrophe on the horizon, we cannot afford to relegate the world’s 3.4 billion women and girls to the role of victim,” said Ms. Obaid. “Wouldn’t it make more sense to have 3.4...
Tags: climate change, dangerous work, natural disasters, U.N., fight climate, family planning, reproductive health, gas emissions, poor women, United Nations, Denmark, Copenhagen, Mitigation of global warming, Population, Global warming, Demography, Action on climate change, Environment, Social Issues, United Nations Population Fund, Chacaltaya, Thoraya Obaid, Effects of global warming, Americans for UNFPA, Year of birth missing, Disaster Accident, Global warming controversy, Economics of global warming, Diplomatic conferences, Scientific opinion on climate change, Carbon finance
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