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Details: Parent Category: News; Published on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 04:57

China: Abortions surge, sex education to blame

30 July 2009, The New York Times
Author: MARK McDONALD

More than 13 million abortions are performed each year in China, far more than any other country in the world, according to statistics disclosed by Chinese health officials.

Details: Parent Category: News; Published on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 04:51

Nepal: Conference on reproductive health

28 July 2009
Xinhua General News Service (China)

With the issue on making reproductive health accessible among all people, a three-day international conference on reproductive health service and security has kicked off in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Tuesday.

Details: Parent Category: News; Published on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 04:48

Burma/Myanmar: Global Fund to return?

27 July 2009
By Alex Ellgee - Democratic Voice of Burma www.dvb.no.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which withdrew from Burma in 2005, is considering returning to the country in a move that would inject millions of dollars into tripling the amount of people receiving treatment for AIDS.

Details: Parent Category: News; Published on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 04:47

Afghan midwifes step up to save lives

23 July 2009
By Atia Abawi, source: CNN.com

The war in Afghanistan may no longer be forgotten but the true victims always are. Women and children in the landlocked Asian country have continuously paid the ultimate price throughout the decades of conflict and war.

Details: Parent Category: News; Published on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 04:46

Fiji: Counselling first, before the pill

24 July 2009
Fiji Times

Young people need to be counselled before any drug is given to them to prevent pregnancy, says the adolescent health project officer with the Ministry of Health, Sister Sulueti Duvaga.

Details: Parent Category: News; Published on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 04:44

IMF and fiscal policy: Central to the health MDGs

EG4Health Newsletter #8 http://www.eg4health.org/
25 July 2009

The IMF, together with the World Bank, bears a huge degree of responsibility for having helped sustain the illegitimate and odious debt burden under which hundreds of millions of innocent people have found their access to schools, clinics and hospitals eroded since the 1980s .

Details: Parent Category: News; Published on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 03:43

AusAID funds IUD insertion training for Lao health workers

Twenty government health service providers from Laos recently travelled to Viet Nam to be trained in IUD insertion by Marie Stopes International (MSI). The trainees were welcomed by the manager of MSI Viet Nam's Nghe An Centre, who, in collaboration with the provincial health authorities, facilitated the five-day course.

Details: Parent Category: News; Published on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 03:39

Accountability and Reproductive Health in Cambodia

A blog by Ramona Vijeyarasa
RH Reality Check
22 July 2009

In mid-May, the Government of Cambodia was put to a test of accountability as it reports to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva. This was a great opportunity to give attention to the situation of social and economic rights in a country where discussions about education, health and housing rights are frequently clouded by the attention given to the war crimes tribunal. The Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has been enforced in Cambodia for over 17 years. As a result of this commitment, the Government of Cambodia is bound to take steps to achieve the full realization of the right to the highest attainable standard of health for all Cambodians.

Details: Parent Category: News; Published on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 03:38

UN short nearly $5bn for aid projects as global recession hits donations

The Guardian
21 July 2009

The United Nations is warning of a US $4.8bn shortfall in funding to tackle humanitarian crises in the world's poorest countries, as the credit crunch leaves developed world governments with little cash to spare.

Details: Parent Category: News; Published on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 03:31

Bangladesh: 47,000 children born for shortage of contraceptives

Daily Star, Dhaka
20 July 2009

Around 47,000 children were born last year in addition to the general population increase in the country due to unexpected pregnancies caused by an acute shortage of contraceptives, according to a study.

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