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.
Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living
Belmont Abbey College argued in court that it was a secular institution in order to receive state funds, but then removed birth control from its employee health care plan. Their reason? The Catholic Church.
Sphere | Buck Wolf | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living
Allison Henry isn't the first to suffer from a horrifying medical condition that few women talk about. But her case was particularly bad, and she's ju...
Ellen Malcolm | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
As Congress struggled to pass health care reform to improve the lives of America's families, anti-choice forces took advantage of the situation to mount yet another assault on abortion.
Reproductive Justice | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
South Carolina, like a number of states in the Southeastern region, is being devastated by a silent enemy that hasn't attracted a lot of media attention lately: HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Joyce McFadden | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media
While reading Barbara Berg's Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining our Future, I felt energized and eager to be a part of this third wave of feminism.
Reproductive Justice | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
Most mothers behind bars are restrained during labor, delivery and post-delivery as a matter of routine practice in our nation's jails and prisons.
Jim Luce | Posted 09.22.2009 | World
Pro Mujer is helping some of the poorest women in Latin America to increase their income, develop their full potential, and claim their basic human rights, enabling them to become agents of change.
Barrett Brown | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media
The fact that a member of the royal family of England had a son who did something swell, McCain implies, indicates that teen pregnancy is no big problem, because, hey, Henry Tudor.
Amie Newman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
The Today Show presents homebirth as an option to be feared, but that's only because the unknown is often a scary venture. If you listen to women's experiences, It doesn't have to be that way.
Judi Jennings | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
It's going to take a lot of straight talk and a commitment to finding common ground about what is best for women and their families to achieve health care reform.
McClatchy | David Lightman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pledged Sunday that President Barack Obama will support barring public funding for...
Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
The Republicans protesting health care reform are the same people who have brought us an avalanche of governmental regulations dictating the availability of women's reproductive health care.
Wall Street Journal | FAWN JOHNSON and LAURA MECKLER | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
Most versions of the Democratic health plan would create subsidies for lower-income people to buy private health insurance. If that insurance includes...
Gauri van Gulik | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
The family planning debate affects people far from the halls of Brussels -- people like Lisa, who was raped by a family member then told to by a local "doctor" to swallow acid and rub it all over her genital area.
Kelli Conlin | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
Heightened awareness is critical to increasing use of Plan B: a safe, effective back up method of birth control. Nearly 40 percent of women 18-30 remain unaware of this valuable medication.
Cecile Richards | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
It was only a matter of time before the right-wing campaign against health care reform began to focus on abortion, and last week the Family Research Council pulled out all the stops.
Jim Luce | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
EngenderHealth focuses on far more than fistula repair and prevention. They are dedicated to improving the overall health and well-being of people in the countries where they work.
Vicky Shorr | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
The Church in Brazil is manned by the likes of the Archbishop of Recife, whose latest idea of social activism was to ex-communicate the mother of a nine-year-old rape victim, who got the child an abortion.
Sharon L. Camp | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living
Proponents of a new Arizona reproductive health law claim it helps inform women's abortion decisions. However, this distortion of the informed consent process only hinders access to abortion services.
Carol Peasley | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
The early international family planning movement was dominated by "population control" advocates who too often forgot that women should be at the center of their thinking.
Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright | Posted 07.26.2009 | Style
Let's not forget that "yes we can" applies to realizing a sexually healthy tomorrow.
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
Yesterday, a Republican Senator used his power to put a "hold" on a Senate Resolution originally condemning violence against women's health providers, thereby blocking any vote on the resolution.
UNFPA | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
By Bill Ryan SWABI, Pakistan - Tajbibi was so weak by the time she got to the maternity clinic that the 19-year-old mother "fainted every time she ha...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living
A while back, we asked women to tell us about their experiences getting an abortion. We'd like to thank everyone who contributed for their honesty. ...
Karl Hofmann | Posted 11.17.2009 | World