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Announcing New Partner: PSI
We are really thrilled to announce our newest partner: PSI! PSI is a global health organization dedicated to improving the health of people in the developing world by focusing on serious challenges like a lack of family planning, HIV and AIDS, barriers to maternal health, and the greatest threats to children under five, including malaria, diarrhea,…
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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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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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15 of Our Tweets from Investing in Women’s Reproductive Health Plenary Session #WD2013
Expectant mothers in South Delhi at a Save the Children’s Mothers Group. May 24, 2013 Photos: Jennifer James
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[Photos] Celebrating World Health Workers Week
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 literally on the frontlines of health care in the developing world every single day. They are the ones who make sure mothers’ babies are attended to directly after…
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Counting Medical Supplies in Africa
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 supplies – from family planning supplies to medications for malaria, for example – and every health worker in every village I asked said the supplies were plenty. They were quite nonchalant about…
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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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New Mini-Documentary Highlights Maternity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Paolo Patruno, a humanitarian photographer who spent 10 years in Africa, has been working on a photography and documentary project highlighting and bringing awareness to the maternity crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. His documentary, Birth is a Dream, shows the true side of pregnancy and birth in both optimal and suboptimal environments in Africa. Read an…
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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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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…
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A Woman’s Right to Basic Family Planning and Why It is Important
There is a worldwide problem facing women: the lack of access to and education about family planning. What makes this issue so compelling and absolutely important to me as a mother is access to contraceptives in developing countries will save the lives of mothers and babies. Period. I cannot imagine not being able to choose…
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Why Family Planning Is Uncontroversial
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 apart, a woman in Ghana or India or anywhere in the world for that matter inherently deserves that right as well. In developing nations women typically have babies…
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The Importance of Family Planning, an Issue Brought to Light at TEDxChange
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 conversation that took place throughout. I was fortunate to be invited by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to be in Berlin to cover the talks. It was a…
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New Solutions to Global Problems: Watch TEDxChange Live – April 5
Next Thursday, April 5, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and TED will partner to host their annual TEDxChange event, this year in Berlin, Germany. TEDxChange is a partnership between TED and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to bring forth new ideas to tackle global problems. [When to Watch]: Watch TEDxChange live on Facebook on Thursday, April…