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LGBTQI+ People Need a Permanent End to the Global Gag Rule

LGBTQI+ People Need a Permanent End to the Global Gag Rule

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The Global Gag Rule disrupts health services and relationships for LGBTQI+ people and harms LGBTQI+ rights globally

Addressing Contraceptive Needs for Women Living With HIV

Addressing Contraceptive Needs for Women Living With HIV

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How community health workers can help promote choice in reproductive health care

Bringing Personal Experience With Sexual and Reproductive Health to Work

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How one woman’s experience with maternal care shaped her professional understanding

Bringing Personal Experience With Sexual and Reproductive Health to Work

Family Planning: Global Disparities Persist

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Contraception access and options need to improve to help empower women, young people

Family Planning: Global Disparities Persist

Data for Contraceptive Security Decision-Making

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Newly launched interactive visualization tool will help measure and track access to contraceptives and guide programs

Jiejin Qiu, six months pregnant with her first baby, poses underwater during a photo shoot at a local wedding photo studio in Shanghai on September 5, 2014—as China began easing its one-child policy. The photo shows the expecting mother floating underwater in a dream-like shot. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Coronavirus in India

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Mitigating the health effects of COVID-19 beyond the immediate

This is an eerie and haunting photo with several people sitting on the ground in an outdoor location in low lighting. They are bathed in a dark red light.

An Improbable Success in a Troubled Region

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The Ouagadougou Partnership in Francophone West Africa advances access to family planning for health and development

Helping youth directly address their leaders: Mariam Abou Gado, Ouagadougou Partnership Youth Ambassador in Niger, meets with President Issoufou of Niger to discuss recommendations on family planning. The photo shows a smiling Miriam shaking hands with the president. PHOTO courtesy of EtriLabs/Yves Tamomo

The U.S. Government’s Role in Addressing Global Women’s Health

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What will happen to women and girls in low- and middle-income countries in the future as aid stalls and progress slows?

Young girls holding U.S. and Kenyan flags wait to greet U.S. Ambassador Robert Godec at a President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) project for girls' empowerment in Nairobi on Mar 10, 2018. The photo shows four girls from the stomach down holding flags. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Human Development is the Best Contraceptive—Why India Does Not Need a Two-Child Norm

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Key to harnessing potential of India is enhancing capabilities of young people and expanding freedoms of girls and women

A mother kisses her child as she walks past graffiti in Mumbai on March 27, 2014. The image is striking with a large, artistic image behind a woman who is walking and holding a child. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui