Brazil’s Government Must Do More To Prevent Further Zika Outbreaks, HRW Report Says July 17, 2017 News Summary Forbes: How Brazil’s Zika Epidemic Highlights Women’s Every Day Plight — Human Rights Watch “A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report looks at the aftermath of the Zika epidemic in Brazil — and also holds disturbing lessons for the U.S. The group interviewed more than 180 people impacted by Zika,…
Digital Technologies Improving Access To Family Planning For India’s Youth July 17, 2017 News Summary Inter Press Service: Digitizing Family Planning: The Way of the Future “Online shopping may have its pros and cons, but when it comes to buying products that have an invisible morality tag, it’s the safest possible option, believes Franklin Paul. One of India’s most vocal advocates for youth rights to…
Post-Ebola Sierra Leone Faces Challenges As Government Works To Restore, Improve Family Planning Services July 17, 2017 News Summary The Guardian: End of Ebola sparks crisis for Sierra Leone’s teen mums “…Just over a year since the country was declared free of Ebola, the government has pledged to prioritize fixing the dire state of maternal and sexual health services. One of its aims is to increase the proportion of…
FT Health Discusses Family Planning Summit, Features Excerpts From Melinda Gates’s Speech July 17, 2017 News Summary FT Health: Family planning pledges more important than ever The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses pledges made at the 2017 Family Planning Summit in London last week, as well as funding challenges. The newsletter features excerpts from a speech made by Melinda Gates during…
President Trump ‘Not Truly Pro-Life’ July 17, 2017 News Summary Daily Beast: Donald Trump’s War on the Unborn Jay Michaelson, legal affairs columnist at the Daily Beast “Evangelical voters put Donald Trump over the top to protect the unborn, but he has declared war on them instead. For a start, the World Health Organization estimates that between 2030-2050, climate change…
To End AIDS Epidemic, Global Health Community Must Learn From Young People’s Experiences July 17, 2017 News Summary Huffington Post: Defeating HIV/AIDS Means Listening To Young People Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and professor of global health “…[A]dolescents and young people in [sub-Saharan Africa] are being left behind in the HIV/AIDS response. … [T]he global community desperately needs to understand and…
Foreign Aid Spending Could Be ‘More Productive For Peace, Security’ Than War July 17, 2017 News Summary The Conversation: Aid not war — can foreign aid projects help improve national security? Mick McKeown, reader in democratic mental health at the University of Central Lancashire, and Nicola Lowe, professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Central Lancashire “The overseas aid budget is coming under attack, both in…
President Trump’s Sexual, Reproductive Health Policies Do Not Act In Women’s Best Interests July 17, 2017 News Summary New York Times: The Playboy President and Women’s Health Michelle Goldberg, columnist for Slate “…American women are being stripped of their sexual and reproductive autonomy not by a moralizing puritan but by an erotically incontinent libertine. … Poor women will bear the brunt of this administration’s policies on sexual and…
Reinstatement Of Trump’s Travel Ban Represents An ‘Assault On’ Women July 17, 2017 News Summary The Guardian: Why Trump’s travel ban hits women the hardest Michelle Chen, contributing writer at the Nation and contributing editor at In These Times and Dissent magazines “[U.S. President] Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ is a frontal assault on many universal human rights principles. But the latest temporary reinstatement of the order’s…
Physicians, Medical Organizations Must Publicly Condemn Hospital Bombardments, Demand Their End July 17, 2017 News Summary BMJ Opinion: Kathleen Thomas: Hospital bombardment — the new weapon of war? Kathleen Thomas, an intensive care doctor from Australia, discusses her experience witnessing the destruction of Médecins Sans Frontières’ Kunduz Trauma Centre in Afghanistan when it was hit by U.S. airstrikes on October 3, 2015. Thomas describes the “weaponization”…