China: Abortions surge, sex education to blame30 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.
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Nepal: Conference on reproductive health28 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.
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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.
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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.
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Fiji: Counselling first, before the pill24 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.
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IMF and fiscal policy: Central to the health MDGsEG4Health 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 .
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AusAID funds IUD insertion training for Lao health workersTwenty 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.
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Accountability and Reproductive Health in CambodiaA 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.
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UN short nearly $5bn for aid projects as global recession hits donationsThe 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.
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Bangladesh: 47,000 children born for shortage of contraceptivesDaily 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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