News, Articles, and Reports
2009
- Global Fertility: A Goldilocks Moment - 11/03/09
Watch a video from The Economist on how the spread of modernity is bringing fertility rates down to replacement level for most of the world. Video is available on their homepage under the Audio & Video heading.
- Announcing Winners of the Half the Sky Contest – 10/02/09
Carrie Ngongo, Senior Program Associate at Engender Health, a USAID-supported project, won an honorable mention for Nicolas Kristof’s “Half the Sky” Contest in The New York Times, in which readers were asked to contribute personal stories about their work with women’s issues worldwide. Ms. Ngongo reflects on her own experience as a first-time mother in contrast with the reality faced by fistula survivors in Niger who do not have adequate access to obstetric care.
- Mothers of Ethiopia Part III: Battling Pregnancy Complications – 10/01/09
This article in the Huffington Post features Karen Beattie, Project Director of the USAID-funded Fistula Care Project, discussing the physical and social causes and consequences of obstetric fistula to help tell the story of a fistula survivor at the USAID-supported Mekelle branch of the Hamlin Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia.
- Expanding Access to Injectable Contraceptives – 09/09
A technical consultation, co-sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO), USAID, and Family Health International (FHI), was held June 15–17, 2009, at the WHO in Geneva to review the evidence and programmatic experience for community-based provision of injectable contraceptives.
- Senegal’s Family Planning Campaign Sheds Light on Social and Economic Consequences of Population Growth – 07/08/09
The campaign, with the theme of "Family Planning – a Priority for the Reduction of Maternal and Infant Mortality,” seeks to reposition family planning and effective birth spacing as the key intervention toward the achievement of Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5.
- Introduction of Injectable Contraceptive Demonstrates Successful Public-Private Partnership – 07/09
As part of the National Family Planning Campaign, USAID/Senegal, and Pfizer West Africa, held a launch for the introduction of the pre-filled injectable contraceptive Depo-provera for use in the private pharmaceutical sector.
- USAID Supports the Integration of Family Planning and HIV Care and Treatment Services – 06/09
Family Health International (FHI) and partners are working with Kenya’s Ministry of Health (MOH) to incorporate the family planning needs of women with HIV into a new national strategy for integrating reproductive health and HIV care and treatment services.
- Family Planning Presentation Sparks Discussion – 05/01/09
On April 24th,2009, Peter Bodde , the U.S. Ambassador of Malawi, hosted a presentation on “The Effects of Rapid Population Growth on Development in Malawi” by retired senior Foreign Service Officer, Margaret Neuse. The presentation highlighted how improved availability and use of family planning services can positively influence agriculture, education, and health sectors.
- Reproductive Health Education Tool Respects and Relates to Local Traditions – 05/05/09
To engage the mostly Somali women and men living in Kenya’s Dadaab Refugee Camp on sexual health, USAID supported ESD, Pathfinder's development of a new reproductive health outreach tool [PDF, 4.7MB], working with some of the refugees who live in the camps. The result is an educational flip-chart comprised of 12 water-color drawings that portray the clothing, customs, behaviors and physical geography familiar to the majority of refugees in the Dadaab and Kakuma Refugee Camps.
2008
- Chili Peppers Band Member Discusses Standard Days Method – 12/14/08 (View the "birth control" clip)
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea joins a rural health agent of the Haitian Health Foundation and the host of the CW television series 4Real to explain the Standard Days Method using CycleBeads in a rural health clinic in Haiti. 4REAL is a series of half-hour television shows that take celebrity guests on adventures around the world to connect with young leaders who, under extreme circumstances, are effecting real change. In an episode airing Nov. 9 and Dec. 14 at 5:00 p.m., Flea explains how to use Cycle Beads [PDF, 195KB] to follow the Standard Days method. View the clip entitled "Birth Control" to see more.
- New Population, Health, and Environment Alliance - Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding – 10/08/08
On October 8, 2008, USAID, Johnson & Johnson, and World Wildlife Fund formed the first major global development alliance to focus on an integrated approach to tackling population, health, and environment issues.
- Bayer Schering Pharma to Support USAID With Contraceptives for Family Planning Programs – 8/19/08
Bayer Schering Pharma will supply up to 110 million cycles of oral contraceptives yearly for family planning programs supported by USAID in developing countries worldwide. This will allow more than 8 million women per year to have access to modern and reliable hormonal contraception.
- New Hopkins Report: Vasectomy Reaching Out to New Users – 07/15/08
According to the lastest issue of Population Reports, "Vasectomy: Reaching Out to New Users," vasectomy is simpler and more cost-effective than female sterilization and offers men a way to share responsibility for family planning. This report provides family planning program managers with tools for counseling clients, the information needed to review important elements in providing good-quality services to vasectomy clients, and ways to help the client better understand the procedure.
- USAID Awards the "PROGRESS" Project to Family Health International – 06/20/08
USAID announces the award of the PROGRESS Project, a $50 million, five-year family planning research project to Family Health International (FHI) that will help improve access to and availability of family planning in developing countries.
- Dr. Jane Bertrand of Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs Receives the Marjorie C. Horn Award for Excellence in Operations Research – 05/29/08
- The 2008 Humanitarian of the Year has Advanced Health Care for Yemen’s Women through USAID-Funded Project – 05/08
2007
- USAID Awards Fistula Care – 12/07
USAID announces the award of Fistula Care, a $70 million, five-year Associate Cooperative Agreement to EngenderHealth and its partners that will build on the successes of the ACQUIRE Project.
- USAID Population Official Receives Shultz Award – 11/05/07
Dr. James D. Shelton of USAID’s Bureau for Global Health has received the prestigious Carl S. Shultz Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Public Health Association.
- USAID and Johns Hopkins Launch “Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers” – 09/27/07
One of the World Heath Organization’s Four Cornerstones of Family Planning Guidance, the book was prepared through a unique collaboration between Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USAID, and more than 30 organizations around the world.
- Fertility Awareness-Based Method (FAM) Cooperative Agreement – 09/20/07
This five-year, $38 million agreement focuses on the scale-up of the Standard Days Method (SDM), the Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM), and the TwoDay Method (TDM).
- Bringing Health Care to the Cardamoms – 06/10/07
A feature story by Conservation International focuses on a USAID-funded health care clinic in Cambodia’s remote Central Cardamom Mountains.
- New IUD Toolkit Available
The IUD Toolkit was compiled by members of the IUD Subcommittee of USAID’s Maximizing Access and Quality Initiative. Policymakers, program managers, providers, and others interested in adding or improving existing IUD services in their family planning programs can visit http://www.iudtoolkit.org to access free and downloadable full-text resources on the IUD. Many resources are available in French or Spanish.
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