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This week from April 8 - 12, 2013 the World Health Organization is celebrating World Health Workers Week. This is a week to honor those who are … [Read more...]
Dec 31, 2012
Counting Medical Supplies in Africa
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In speaking to health workers while on an observation trip to Ethiopia this month with Save the Children I repeatedly asked about access to medial … [Read more...]
Dec 10, 2012
Family Planning in Ethiopia
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This week I am a guest of Save the Children on an observational trip in Ethiopia. I, along with three distinguished US nurses, are here to learn about … [Read more...]
Sep 18, 2012
New Mini-Documentary Highlights Maternity in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Paolo Patruno, a humanitarian photographer who spent 10 years in Africa, has been working on a photography and documentary project highlighting and … [Read more...]
Jul 13, 2012
Melinda Gates on CNN International’s Amanpour
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We would like to thank CNN for reaching out and providing an interview with Melinda Gates at the London Summit on Family Planning with Christiane … [Read more...]
Jul 13, 2012
Developing Countries’ Family Planning Commitments
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In order to improve family planning services around the world and increase its access by an additional 120 million women in developing countries, … [Read more...]
Jul 4, 2012
Thorough Reads Leading Up to the Family Planning Summit
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Next week the UK government, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UNFPA and their partners will host the the London Summit on Family Planning. … [Read more...]
Jun 28, 2012
A Woman’s Right to Basic Family Planning and Why It is Important
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There is a worldwide problem facing women: the lack of access to and education about family planning. What makes this issue so compelling and … [Read more...]
May 15, 2012
Why Family Planning Is Uncontroversial
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Women everywhere deserve the right to make choices about their own bodies. If a woman here in the United States wants to space her children two years … [Read more...]
Apr 6, 2012
The Importance of Family Planning, an Issue Brought to Light at TEDxChange
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Yesterday scores of people around the world took part in the live streamed TEDxChange event that was held in Berlin as well as the robust online … [Read more...]
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