Rakai is known as the first place in Uganda where HIB was found. It is also, unfortunately, at the forefront of another battle in the war against poverty and disease.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
Congo's economy is not undermined by "unregulated fertility" rates. Civil society has been destroyed by decades of war and over a hundred years of exploitation of Congo's wealth by international interests.
M. Tracey Brooks | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York
The GOP failed to back its own candidate and allowed outside influences such as the Conservative Party and the Club for Growth to hijack the election. This is not good for the GOP or for women.
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
The Philippines hasn't recovered from its official mourning period for former President Corazon Aquino, but there's already pressure on her son, Sen. Benigno 'Noy Noy' Aquino III, to run for president.
Guardian | Posted 09.05.2009 | World
Thousands of couples in India who agreed to put off having babies for at least two years after their wedding will collect cash payments this month as ...
Amy Nebens and Jara Negrin | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
The thank-yous we constantly remind our kids to say are mostly an instinctual need to instill manners, but the reality is that the appreciation we receive does have a positive effect.
Steven Waldman | Posted 08.07.2009 | Living
Would pro-lifers accept more premarital sex if it meant fewer abortions?
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
Estimates of maternal morbidity vary from 16 to 50 million annually and include such profoundly disabling conditions as vesico-vaginal fistulae, a condition many consider a fate akin to living death
Scott Swenson | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
Is it possible that in President Obama's election, Americans have a chance to heal the body politic from the divisiveness the abortion issue has caused for a generation or more?
Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
The United States has the highest abortion and unwanted pregnancy rate of any developed nation because of the way we handle the subjects of sexuality and abortion.
Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green
A Monsanto ad really set me off with their "sustainable agriculture" full pager in the New York Times last week. How about answering the Earth's ple...
Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
Forcing a woman who's been victimized by rape or incest to carry a child to term demonstrates Catholicism's blatant disrespect for the plight of women.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
Without adequate family planning programs in the developing world -- and here in the U.S. -- women will always be at unacceptably high risk of death, illness and disability.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
The data doesn't lie: sickness and poverty have grown together during the last few decades. We now have a chance to turn the tables and foster health and wealth.
Sharon L. Camp | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
If Latin American policymakers truly want to reduce abortion rates, they must focus their attention on improving knowledge about and access to a wide range of family planning methods.
Nancy Keenan | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
NARAL Pro-Choice America will mark this milestone with another reminder of how electing leaders who support the values of freedom and privacy does make a difference in the lives of women and their families.
Tod Preston | Posted 05.24.2009 | World
Ironically, family planning isn't seen as a sexy issue. And it wrongly gets mired in debates around abortion -- even though family planning reduces abortions.
UNFPA | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
In this remote, densely-populated region of Ethiopia, it is common for men to have multiple wives. In Ayatu's case this tradition has backfired.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
The truth about Tibet is perhaps more nuanced than it has been presented by either side of the highly polarized debate.
Rachel Laser | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
We in the pro-choice movement must embrace and not fear common ground on abortion. We do not sacrifice our support for abortion rights. We add to it common ground.
Talking Points Memo | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), whose career became mired in the D.C. Madam prostitution scandal back in 2007, and is now headed into his 2010 re-election c...
Marc Aminder | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
It created a little stir when it was pulled from stimulus, but now it's in President Obama's FY 2010 budget plan. New funding for the Medicaid Family ...
Nancy Duff Campbell | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics
The bill strengthens the safety net for women, their families, and others most in need by increasing direct assistance for low-income individuals, most of whom are women and children.
Cristina Page | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics
The so-called anti-abortion movement refuses to admit that its long held political and fundraising habits have worked too well to now be abandoned, and so continues to resist common sense.
Caryl Rivers | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
Roe is going to need all the support that can be mustered, because the departure of the Bush administration may bring the extreme factions in the pro-life movement to the fore.
Karl Hofmann | Posted 11.17.2009 | World