Despite the substantial negative impacts of infertility on health and well-being, it’s a neglected public health issue throughout much of the Global South, including Malawi.
Women’s need for contraception and contraceptive use must be an ongoing priority.
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The changes that society needs, such as preventing adolescent pregnancies, will not happen until researchers can use their findings to influence policy change.
Beatrice Maina, African Population and Health Research Center; Boniface Ushie, African Population and Health Research Center, and Caroline W. Kabiru, African Population and Health Research Center
Equipping parents with the right information on what to talk about, and how to talk about it, is a key step in addressing challenges to sexual health.
A woman gets her blood pressure checked at a camp for internally displaced people in Maiduguri, north-east Nigeria.
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There is a high burden of reproductive illnesses among Nigerian women but a lot of it hidden because of an unspoken rule of silence.
A mother-to-be in Kibera in Nairobi, where up to a third of adolescent girls and women between 15-22 experience an unwanted pregnancy.
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Nexplanon, a long-acting reversible contraceptive that is implanted in the arm for up to three years, is a welcome addition to birth control options in Canada.
Emergency contraception can help prevent pregnancy after sex.
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The aim is to reduce maternal deaths, address the unmet need for family planning and end gender-based violence by 2030.
Women in Mexico City carry a banner reading “Legal and safe abortion across Mexico” during the commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (November 25, 2018).
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While the abortion debate continues worldwide, even in countries where it has long been legal, new drugs and telemedicine services could provide access to safe abortion beyond borders and laws.
New procedures are enabling men and women to preserve their fertility until they are ready or able to have children.
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For women and men not ready to have children, there are new ways to preserve fertility. And experimental techniques offer hope for sick children whose treatments jeopardize future childbearing.
The ongoing debate is a continuation of the Philippines’ long journey towards reproductive health - and its having been turned into a political and moral issue by various actors.
Men can deny paternity in when women they are involved with fall pregnant as a way of punishing the women.
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When men deny the paternity of children, many South African women feel like they have no recourse. Making DNA tests affordable and accessible could change this.
Young people living in urban slums are at significant risk for early unplanned pregnancies.
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Teenage pregnancy is a massive problem in Kenya. But for this to change, young women need access to information and education rather than moral lectures.