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A new RHM supplement explores pregnancy decisions of women living with HIV. It’s free to download here. In 2007 we published this supplement on Ensuring Sexual and Reproductive Health for People Living with HIV. It will be interesting to ring…
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The harm and benefits of breast cancer screening
Marge Berer Throughout 2011 and 2012, Peter Gøtzsche, director of the Norway Cochrane centre, and colleagues have created a publishing storm of articles against mammography screening for breast cancer. Their articles have appeared in the International Journal of Cancer, Lakartidningen,…
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Abortion time limits to 12 weeks? How did Jeremy Hunt get responsibility for the public health?
Call for a general strike against the Government’s policies on the NHS – and a fig to Jeremy Hunt’s views on abortion Marge Berer Editor, Reproductive Health Matters 6 October 2012 At the Labour conference this week, Andy Burnham accused…
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Decriminalisation of abortion: a public health and human rights issue
International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion Public statement for: 28 September 2012 International Day of Action for the Decriminalisation of Abortion In spite of increased attention to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and particularly to maternal mortality, in…
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The Brazilian government pays compensation for a maternal death taken up by CEDAW – a decision that has global implications
Lisa Hallgarten, RHM The Brazilian government has agreed to pay compensation for the death of a pregnant woman in 2002. The decision could have implications for governments around the world where women are dying from preventable deaths in pregnancy, childbirth…
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China: how can the one-child policy and rights-based family planning be reconciled in the face of recently reported abuses?
Lisa Hallgarten, RHM social media and communications Marge Berer, RHM editor Two recent news stories from China have reawakened concern about overzealous enforcement of China’s one-child policy and the emergence of voices critical of the policy and its implementation. Historically,…
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Race, Reproductive Politics and Reproductive Health Care in the Contemporary United States
This editorial from the journal Contraception offers an important analysis of population and family planning policy in the USA, both in the context of current politics and also from history, starting as far back as 100 years ago. Carole Joffe,…
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Family planning and safe, legal abortion go hand in hand
Marge Berer Editor, Reproductive Health Matters One in three women in the UK will have an abortion in her lifetime, most of whom will have been using contraception of some kind. Yet since as long ago as the late 1930s,…
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The morning after: the beginnings of an assessment of the FP Summit
Marge Berer Editor, Reproductive Health Matters 13 July 2012 From a communications point of view, the FP Summit was a raving success. Newspapers, TV and radio all over the world covered it. Around the globe everyone reached by the media…
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Making change happen is in the air
Marge Berer Editor, Reproductive Health Matters Below, are excerpts from my editorial in RHM 20(39) May 2012. This issue is about reducing maternal mortality, but the more I reflected on it the more I realised it had implications for this…
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