Family Planning News

• Easy-to-use IUD inserter could aid women who lack access to birth control

  NPR | March 2016

• Zika and abortion: Will the virus prompt Latin America to rethink abortion and birth control?

  The Conversation | March 2016

• Study: Teens who live near a Planned Parenthood are less likely to drop out of high school

  Vox | March 2016

• How the Informed Push Model gets contraceptives to the women who need them

  IntraHealth International | March 2016

• Malawi: Govt calls for families to embrace contraceptive use

  allAfrica | March 2016

• Will Union Budget 2016 prioritize family planning?

  The Indian Express | February 2016

• 5 reasons Senegal is ahead of its neighbors on family planning and HIV

  IntraHealth International | February 2016

• Zika outbreak: Ensuring that sexual and reproductive health services are part of the response

  UNFPA | February 2016

• Study finds most young men aren’t aware of emergency contraception

  NPR | February 2016

• Surgeons perform first uterus transplant in the U.S.

  Time | February 2016

• 5 reasons Senegal is ahead of its neighbors on family planning and HIV

  Devex | February 2016

• Uganda: Sterilisation of HIV-positive women

  allAfrica | February 2016

• What will family planning look like in 2036?

  IntraHealth International | February 2016

• Zika virus in Colombia presents complicated choice about abortion

  The New York Times | February 2016

• Two states could soon bolster birth control access

  RH Reality Check | February 2016

• Why Zika is a huge catch-22 for pregnant women

  Vox | February 2016

• Where do refugee women turn for abortions?

  The Daily Beast | February 2016

• Zika sparks Brazil debate over abortion, access to contraception

  Aljazeera America | February 2016

• We talked to the activist sending illegal abortion pills to women with Zika

  Broadly | February 2016

• Zika outbreak raises fears of rise in deaths from unsafe abortions

  Women Deliver | February 2016

• From Chiang Mai to Mexico City to Nusa Dua: Family planning is key to saving lives

  Healthy Newborn Network | February 2016

• Why are some countries advising against pregnancy as the Zika virus spreads?

  RH Reality Check | February 2016

• A country without babies

  The Atlantic | February 2016

• 1 million unintended pregnancies recorded in 2015, says report

  Daily Monitor | February 2016

• Hope and doubt on Nigeria’s reproductive health landscape

  Pulitzer Center | February 2016

• PSI CEO on family planning’s 3 ‘exciting new funding trends’

  Devex | January 2016

• Integrating family planning and HIV prevention to better serve key populations

  PSI Impact | January 2016

• Family planning: There’s an app for that

  Global Health Now | January 2016

• Sustainable development goals: When reducing births means reducing deaths

  Daily Maverick | January 2016

• No pipeline, no promise: The role of contraceptive R&D at the International Conference on Family Planning

  FHI 360 | January 2016

• Leveraging the private sector to improve access to family planning in the Democratic Republic of Congo

  PSI Impact | January 2016

• Africa: Lessons on midwifery from Indonesia

  allAfrica | January 2016

• Bali conference calls for higher investments in family planning

  Dhakan Tribune | January 2016

• Move over, unmet need – There’s a new family planning indicator in town

  IntraHealth International | January 2016

• Tanzania: Give youth a right to contraceptives – NGOs

  The Citizen | January 2016

• Global commitments, local actions: Postpartum family planning champions deliver

  Maternal and Child Survival Program | January 2016

• The state of reproductive health and rights: A 50-state report card

  The Population Institute | January 2016

• How terrible is your state with reproductive health? This map will tell you

  Broadly | January 2016

• Interventions to improve postpartum family planning in low- and middle-income countries: Program implications and research priorities

  Studies in Family Planning | December 2015

• A record 290 million women, girls in poor nations are using contraception: Report

  Huffington Post | November 2015

• Pregnancy-care paradox: Paying ever more for the same bad results

  The Atlantic | November 2015

• Why young women from Kenya’s urban slums should become more savvy about contraception

  The Conversation | October 2015

• Let’s not be squeamish about family planning’s fiscal benefits

  Huffington Post | September 2015

• Why 222 million women can’t get the birth control they need

  The New York Times | September 2015

• In Cambodia, family planning offers a path away from poverty

  UNFPA | September 2015

• Maternal and child survival initiative saves millions of lives

  USAID | August 2015

• PMA2020 Q&A: Sparking a data revolution for family planning

  Global Health Now | July 2015

• India, top steriliser of women, needs new contraceptive ideas

  The Times of India | July 2015

• The promise of extending IUD access to all women

  Pacific Standard | June 2015

• Teen pregnancies, child marriage behind high maternal deaths in Malaysia, say activists

  Malay Mail Online | May 2015