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Unsafe Abortion: Why Money Might Matter

By Ramona Vijeyarasa, RH Reality Check, Southeast Asia

October 21, 2009 - 6:00am

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If aid is meant to create cost-effective, efficient and sustainable health care systems, African nations and the global community must address the high number of unsafe abortions and the needless waste of money spent addressing complications.

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Historic Pledge Against Female Genital Cutting in Somalia

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

October 7, 2009 - 1:01pm

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Girls in the Northeastern region of Somalia, Puntland, will no longer be subject to a tradition of genital cutting after 14 villages pledge to abandon the practice.

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International Aid, Made Local

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

September 15, 2009 - 6:50am

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By using the peer-to-peer model, the Minnesota International Health Volunteers program avoids, or at least reduces, public health obstacles that arise when there’s a culture clash.


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Kenya Gets Plan B

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

July 15, 2009 - 2:15pm

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While here it has, generally, become a widely accepted emergency option, the BBC
reported today that in Kenya, the emergency pill—or e-pill, as it’s
called there—has caught on as many women’s favorite method of birth
control, “some even buying the pills in advance.”


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Rwandan Officials Promote Condom Use

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

July 1, 2009 - 3:05pm

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Just months after the Pope denounced
condom use in Africa, Rwanda’s Deputy Speaker of Parliament Dr. Jean
Damascene Ntawukuriryayo said that the answer to his country’s high
fertility rate, paired with a 52 percent poverty rate, is helping his
people to drop the stigma attached to condoms.


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VIDEO: Africa's First Female President Visits The Daily Show

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

April 23, 2009 - 2:17pm

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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the “Iron Lady” of Liberia, made a visit to Jon Stewart’s show this week to promote her new book, This Child Will Be Great, a memoir about her life of abuse, imprisonment, and ultimately her role as the first female president in Africa.

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More Uproar Over Pope's Condom Comment

By Joe Veix, RH Reality Check

March 30, 2009 - 1:51pm

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The medical journal The Lancet and various Facebook groups respond to Pope's irresponsible and incorrect comments about condom use in Africa.


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Researcher Backs Pope, Both Are Still Wrong

By Joe Veix, RH Reality Check

March 23, 2009 - 2:25pm

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A distinguished AIDS researcher backs the Pope's comments that the AIDS epidemic is made worse by condom use. His logic and his motives are questionable.


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Outrage Over Pope's Condom Comments

By Joe Veix, RH Reality Check

March 20, 2009 - 2:25pm

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The Daily Show and others respond to the Pope's outrageous claim that condoms increase the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

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