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Part II: Not Just a Women’s Issue

Health & Medicine

African women who want to use birth control face many obstacles. Among them: their male partners. An organization in Kenya is engaging men in conversations about women’s reproductive choices.

Should South African High Schools Distribute Free Condoms?

School Year Blog: Should South African High Schools Distribute Free Condoms?

Development & Education

Combating Contraception Mythology in South Africa

Health & Medicine

Part II: Not Just a Women’s Issue

Conflict & Justice

VIDEO: Rare cancer linked to breast implant in thousands of women

Health & Medicine

U.S. teen pregnancies reaching record-low levels

Development & Education

As comprehensive sex education ramps up and the economy continues to sputter, more women are choosing not to get pregnant in their teens, sending the U.S. teen birth rate to low levels not seen in 70 years.

The World

Clinics ‘should offer to remove PIP breast implants’

Global Politics

The British government has done an urgent review of the risk of faulty PIP breast implants that 40,000 British women have received.

Health Secretary Overturns Plan B Decision

Heath and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius  rejected a decision  by the Food and Drug Administration to make the “morning after” birth control pill widely available over the counter on Wednesday. The emergency contraceptive, called Plan B One-Step, was available to women over 17, but would have been available to women 16 and under had the decision […]

The World

Ghana’s report card on abstinence programs

Global Politics

President Bush is in Ghana today, and the African nation is one of the recipients of the president’s emergency aid for HIV/AIDS, including funding for HIV prevention messages that stress abstinence over safer sex