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Female genital mutilation (FGM) has been illegal in the UK since 1985, and taking a child abroad to undergo FGM, as legislated in the 2003 Female Genital Mutilation Act and 2015 Serious Crime Act is also illegal and is recognised…
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Support for universal vaccination of all boys aged 12-13 against human papillomavirus
I wrote this blog as RHM Editor with Lisa Hallgarten, RHM Online Editor. It was published on the RHM Blog on 18 December 2014. This paper, sent to the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), is in support of universal…
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Ghosting, a memoir by Andrew O’Hagan in the London Review of Books: a response from a ghost of another kind
This blog was written as a letter to the editor of the LRB on 29 March 2014, but not published. I read Andrew O’Hagan’s memoir “Ghosting” in the London Review of Books, 6 March 2014, about his experience of ghostwriting…
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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…
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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…
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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).…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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