Category: bererblog
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Accepting the global reality of “self-help” abortions
Taking medical abortion pills at home to have an abortion, mostly before ten weeks of pregnancy, though not always, is happening in most countries across the world, and each year more than ever. It is happening both in countries where terminating most pregnancies is still a criminal offence and registered abortion services are not available,…
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Berer Blog statistics
Readers of this blog might be interested to know that it has been viewed by people from 86 countries, ranging from 1 per country to 435 from the UK. The numbers of posts and views since it started have been as follows: 2011 15 posts 1,432 views 2012 26 posts 4,346 views 2013 …
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Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health: A Comment on the new Zero Draft for the Post-2015 Agenda
(This blog was first published on BMJ Blogs on 22 June 2015.) This week in New York, the Zero Draft of the Outcome Document of the Post-2015 Development Agenda ‘Transforming Our World,’ will be negotiated at the United Nations (UN). The document provides the main framework for the Post-2015 Development Agenda that will be adopted…
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UK Parliamentary Hearing on Population Dynamics in the Post-2015 World – urbanisation, migration, climate change and conflict – 12 March 2015
Proposed questions and responses from Marge Berer You suggested in your RHM editorial May 2014 that we need to start thinking very differently about ‘population’. What did you mean by this? What I meant were several things: 1) that given the growing risk of disasters arising from climate change, Hanna Zlotnik, a long-time expert at…
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New beginnings: farewell but not goodbye!!
The November 2014 RHM journal was my last as RHM’s editor, and I stayed on this year until 30 April to support Shirin Heidari as the new editor during a transition period, edit some of the papers in the May 2015 journal for her, and write a farewell editorial. My best wishes go with Shirin! I…
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Compelling arguments for developing new post-fertilisation methods of birth control
A 2013 article by Elizabeth Raymond et al[1] makes a compelling case for encouraging reproductive health researchers to develop new post-fertilisation methods of birth control. As she points out, post-fertilisation can cover the time periods both before and after implantation, which in every woman will not happen in the exact same number of minutes, hours…
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A Quiet Inquisition
A Quiet Inquisition A film by Holen Sabrina Kahn and Alessandra Zek, Chicken & Egg Pictures, 2014 (65 min), in Spanish with English subtitles A review by Marge Berer This is a film about Daniel Ortega’s betrayal of Nicaraguan women. Made over a period of several years, this documentary film features the experiences of young, rural, pregnant…
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A new health and development paradigm post-2015: grounded in human rights
Marge Berer, RHM Editor, presentation at: Divided we stand? Universal health coverage and the unfinished agenda of…
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Acquittals in the FGM case in London: justice was done and was seen to be done, but what now?
Marge Berer – Editor, Reproductive Health Matters 10th February 2015 This was a case that should never have been allowed to happen. While female genital mutilation (FGM) is a harmful practice and needs to stop, the UK government, politicians from David Cameron on down, and especially the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the Director of Public Prosecutions…
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Support for universal vaccination of all boys aged 12-13 against human papillomavirus
Marge Berer, RHM Editor; Lisa Hallgarten, RHM Online Editor Reproductive Health Matters, member of HPV Action This paper, sent to the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is in support of universal vaccination of all boys aged 12-13 against human papillomavirus (HPV) as a cause of genital warts and HPV-linked cancers that affect men regardless…