Archive: Jul 2012

On Friday, the Guardian reported that Turkey recently became first country to make elective cesarean sections punishable by law. While Turkey has one of the world’s highest cesarean section rates, members of the medical community in Turkey are…

Following the London Summit on Family Planning, the Economist reports on global access to contraception in a piece titled, Choice not chance: Family planning returns to the international development agenda.   From the piece: The term…

The Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published a new report that explores the dual global epidemics of HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence (GBV), the destructive and disproportionate impact on women…

The UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in collaboration with UNFPA, national governments, donors, civil society, the private sector, the research and development community, and other colleagues from around the world are meeting…

A recent study published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth looks at current recommendations and assesses the quality of clinical guidelines on gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and pre-existing diabetes mellitus during pregnancy. The study found that the…

By: Leonardo Chavane, National Senior Advisor for Mozambique, MCHIP & JHPIEGO This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. In Mozambique, malaria constitutes a primary cause of demand for…

Family planning laws in China, particularly the one child policy, are being challenged by high profile scholars and other individuals this week. The Wall Street Journal‘s China Realtime Report explains the issue and why we are seeing increased…

The June issue of the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition published by our colleagues at icddr,b focuses on the neglected issue of maternal morbidities. Introducing the issue, Mary Ellen Stanton and Neal Brandes of USAID write: This series…

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This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Take Away Messages from Day Two, June 27th, 2012, at Malaria in Pregnancy: A Solvable Problem—Bringing the Maternal Health and Malaria Communities…