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10 Top Tweets from the Family Planning Conference: Day 2
Choosing ten top tweets from day two of the International Conference on Family Planning wasn’t easy. Thousands of experts, researchers, those representing NGOs, and stakeholders are in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this week at the largest conference on family planning and reproductive health. Below are ten tweets we feel are informative and provide fantastic discussion points…
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![[Photos] Family Planning Kits from Ethiopia, Zambia, South Africa](https://socialgoodmoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/dsc5971.jpg)
[Photos] Family Planning Kits from Ethiopia, Zambia, South Africa
I have been fortunate to visit health posts and family planning clinics in a handful of countries. One of the things I always ask to see while visiting are family planning kits used for educational purposes for clients. Some of the kits have been fancy, others have been fairly rudimentary, but they all serve the…
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10 Top Tweets from the #FamilyPlanning Conference: Day 1
Today was the first day of the International Conference on Family Planning in Addis Ababa. With thousands of participants at the conference there was a flurry of tweets throughout the day. Here are ten tweets we identified as extremely informative. You can also follow the conversation at a host of hashtags: #FP2020, #FullAccess, #FamilyPlanning, and #ICFP2013. Related articles…
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Top 12 Twitter Handles to Follow During This Week’s #FamilyPlanning Conference #ICFP2013
This week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 4000 experts, researchers, journalists, and stakeholders are embarking upon a robust conversation about family planning and how critical it is for 222 million women in the developing world that lack access to family planning services, commodities, and education. We have identified 12 top Twitter handles to follow during the…
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![[Photos] A Week in Johannesburg](https://socialgoodmoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/dsc5855.jpg)
[Photos] A Week in Johannesburg
They say you’ve never been to Soweto if you haven’t seen the Orlando Towers that can be viewed from all corners of the massive urban neighborhood filled with over fifty townships in Johannesburg. The Orlando Towers are a symbol of racial discrimination that was systemic until the fall of apartheid in the early 1990s. The…
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Infographic of the Week: An Integrated Approach to HIV/AIDS and Family Planning Services
An integrated approach to healthcare no matter the setting is a more effective and rights-based approach to healthier outcomes. When family planning services are available at HIV/AIDS clinics, Population Action International (PAI) believes patients will receive better care, health workers will be more efficient, and dollars will be saved. In sub-Saharan Africa integrated clinic settings…
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World Population Day Highlights Adolescent Pregnancy
Today is World Population Day and this year’s theme is adolescent pregnancy. We are going to concentrate our efforts on addressing the needs of adolescent girls in developing countries as they make up over 500 million of the 600 million girls in the world according to the UNFPA. Nearly 16 million of them give birth…
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Stories, Photos, and Videos from #SocialGoodMomsIndia Trip
Storify by Social Good Moms Fri, Jun 07 2013 12:59:17 Stories, Photos, and Videos from #SocialGoodMomsIndia Trip From May 20 – 24, 2013 Jennifer James, founder of Mom Bloggers for Social Good, and Nicole Melancon, of Third Eye Mom, traveled to Delhi, India to visit Mom Bloggers for Social Good partners to see their work…
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Family Planning Conversations During Women Deliver #WD2013
The second day of the Women Deliver conference was led by robust conversations and discussions about family planning. Wednesday’s events began with the plenary session: Global Progress on Family Planning—Putting Women at the Heart of the Global Health Agenda which was opened by Melinda Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive…
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Bill Gates On the Importance of Measurement in Global Health #BillsLetter
Every year Bill Gates, the Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, writes an annual letter laying out his vision for the future of global health and poverty eradication. This year’s letter, which can be read at billsletter.com, espouses the critical importance of measurement in saving more lives. In fact, Gates uses measurement in…
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Family Planning in Ethiopia
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 Ethiopia’s frontline health workers, the 38,000 women strong health extension workers. The health extension workers were put into place by the Ethiopian government in 2003 and now…
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Making Family Planning Available to All Who Need It
There is an important article on the Gates Foundation’s blog Impatient Optimists that details the importance of the new UNFPA study on family planning. Do give it a read: New Report: Family Planning By Choice, Not By Chance. Photo By: Jennifer James (Kisumu, Kenya, Summer 2011) Infographic: UNFPA Read more of our family planning coverage.
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Catapult: A Game Changer in Crowdfunding
There are a lot of crowdfunding platforms on the Net, but we’re seeing more and more of them become increasingly targeted to niche communities and specific causes. Catapult, a crowdfunding platform for women and girls’ projects, is one of these new, hyper-targeted crowdfunding platforms. A digital project of Women Deliver and funded by the Gates Foundation,…
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![[Watch] No Joke. #ChoiceMatters. Everywhere](https://socialgoodmoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/notfunny2.jpg)
[Watch] No Joke. #ChoiceMatters. Everywhere
Women around the world, especially in developing countries, often have difficulties accessing quality reproductive health care. For more than 55 years, Pathfinder International has worked to expand access to quality sexual and reproductive health care to enable and empower individuals to make choices about their body and their future. To bring home the realities that…
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Melinda Gates on CNN International’s Amanpour
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 Amanpour. The Wednesday, July 12th edition of CNN International’s Amanpour featured an interview with Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Jane Otai, senior community advisor of…
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Developing Countries’ Family Planning Commitments
In order to improve family planning services around the world and increase its access by an additional 120 million women in developing countries, these countries must first commit to making a wide range of improvements in their current family planning agendas. At the London Summit on Family Planning this week we heard from a wide range…
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An Early Look at the London Summit on Family Planning
The London Summit on Family Planning is just underway this morning in London. Here are some early photos before the summit started. The Media Galley Attendants filing into the summit.
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How to Participate in the London Family Planning Summit Discussion
WATCH LIVE This week we are in London covering the London Summit on Family Planning that will take place tomorrow morning through early evening. You will be able to watch live at londonfamilyplanningsummit.co.uk. OFFICIAL HASHTAG You can follow summit tweets at dialogue at the #fpsummit hashtag. TWEET CHAT There will also be a tweetchat from…
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10 Key Tweets Leading Up to the London Family Planning Summit
As the date nears for the London Family Planning Summit more information is being spread through social media via summit partners about the importance of providing 220 million additional women in developing countries with the option of having greater control over when to have children, how many children to have, how long to space births,…
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Thorough Reads Leading Up to the Family Planning Summit
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. As Melinda Gates mentioned in April she is personally committed to putting family planning on the global agenda. This summit will bring together strategic partners, donors, NGOs, civil society and…