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March/April

International press clips - APRIL 2007

The abstinence-only delusion - The New York Times - 30 April 2007
Global population is graying - The Japan Times - 29 April 2007
Solomons mission review under way - Radio Australia News - 27 April 2007
Church-dictated Health Care Policy? - Political Affairs Magazine - 26 April 2007
Candidates urged to adopt family planning platform - Baguio Sun Star - 27 April 2007
Philippines' government corruption to blame for poverty says cleric - Ecumenical News International - 26 April 2007
Village Six screens series on HIV/AIDS - Fiji Times online - 25 April 2007
UNFPA global population policy update - Issue #72 - 25 April 2007
Women's Well-Being Key to Afghanistan's Future, UNFPA Leader Stresses - PR Newswire - 25 April 2007
World Bank Board Delays Decision on Updating Health Strategy - kaisernetwork.org - 25 April 2007
The Intimidation of American Physicians — Banning Partial-Birth Abortion - New England Journal of Medicine - 23 April 2007
The Partial Death of Abortion Rights - New England Journal of Medicine - 23 April 2007
Launch of HUV/AIDS TV series tomorrow - The Fiji Times - 24 April 2007
NZ one of world's worst aid givers - OECD - stuff.co.nz - 4 April 2007
World Bank health strategy rejected - Bretton Woods project - 23 April 2007.
( Also see letter and earlier article)
Also see World Bank Global Monitoring Report 2007, chapter on gender equality and women's empowerment
UNFPA to help Afghan gov't launch national census - People's Daily Online - 23 April 2007
2007 Global Monitoring Report on the Millennium Development Goals - Development Gateway Foundation - 20 April 2007
Candidates challenged to support reproductive health rights - Inside PCIJ (Philippines) - 20 April 2007
Rwanda: 43 Percent Don't Listen to Radio - The New Times - 18 April 2007
Majority of Philippinos favour government support for family planning - Pulse Asia - Monday 23 April 2007
Agricultural innovations - The National (PNG) - 23 April
Peso-for-peso grant gives new hope to Mindanao schools - Manila bulletin Online - 19 April Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Partial-Birth Abortion - CNS News - 18 April 2007
$80bn gender bender in Asia-Pacific - The Age - 19 April 2007
Sex survey shows Kiwis have lost that loving feeling - Stuff.co.nz - 18 April 2007
Death favourable to coming out in Australia - GCN.ie (Irish gay magazine) - 18 April 2007
Oxfam Solomons response in full swing - Scoop Independent News - 18 April 2007
Abstinence-only programs don't work: report - ABC PM program - 17 April 2007
Aid to China? What's next: AusAID's truffles for Maxim's fund? - Crikey.com - 13 April 2007
Email Trail and Draft Strategy Show Family Planning Removed from Bank’s Africa Plans
Yubanet.com - 13 April 2007
Study Says Abstinence Education Programs Are Futile - NewsLocale.com - 14 April 2007 Leak prompts fear over World Bank health policies - The Guardian - 16 April
Kids exposed to sex too soon - Brisbane Times - 15 April 2007
Washington Officials Rule Pharmacists Can't Block Plan B - Sci-Techn Today.com - 13 April
Sex in all its forms a frequent visitor to every surgery - The Australian - 14 April 2007
Asia's Falling Fertility Rates Threaten Baby Bust - Asian Tribune - 14 april 2007
UN to support socio-economic development in Kon Tum - Nhan Dan - 12 April 2007
Pakistan seeking population reduction to improve quality of people's life - Associated Press of Pakistan - 12 April 2007
Lawmakers expand sex-ed curriculum to include contraception - Seattle Times - 12 April
Promoting sexual abstinence can put children at risk, Ofsted warns - The Independent (UK) - 12 April 2007
World Bank under fire over AIDS policy - The Financial Times (UK) - 12 April 2007
Parents fail kids over sex ed - Manchester Evening News - 11 April 2007
Schools handing out morning after pill to under-age girls backed by Ofsted - Daily Mail - 11 April 2007
Australia provides more support to Solomon Islands - Relief Web - 10 April 2007
Malicious intent - The American Prospect Online - 11 April 2007
AusAID to fight disease in PNG - Radio Australia - 11 April 2007
Women fall victims as family planning resources dwindle, warns UNFPA - UNFPA press release - 10 April 2007
Development implications of changing age structure in world population - UN Commission on Population and Development - 10 April 2007
Parliamentary Services - The National (online) - 10 April 2007
Disease threatens Solomon survivors - thewest.com.au - 5 April 2007
A world fit for all ages - Statement by UNFPA Executive Director - 9 April 2007
Stress on Community Approach to HIV/AIDS - Inter Press Service News Agency - 9 April
US funding cuts undermine war against terrorism - Inter Press Service News Agency - 4 April 2007
LHWs, LHVs to be trained on family planning, reproductive health issues - Pakistan News - 4 April 2007
Africa must not be helf behind in race to achieve development goals - UN envoy - Press release, UN News Centre - 3 April 2007
Development: Pacific MPs lead the way - Islands Business International - 4 April 2007Call for action over high rate of teen pregnancies - Radio New Zealand - 4 April 2007 (also MPS call for more action), TV3
Billings Method creator dies at 89 - AM- ABC Radio National, 3 April 2007
Australia pledges millions for medical research in PNG - fijivillage.com - 4 April 2007 (also reported by Radio Australia)
NZ Health Minister to receive report on sexual health from cross-party group - Scoop independent news - Wednesday 4 April 2007

International press clips - MARCH 2007

Projects on Youths in Shadow: RHIYA - The Himalayan Times - 27 March 2007
Contraception and the Chastity Myth - FOXNews.com - 26 March 2007
Planned Parenthood Launches 'Pill Patrol' Campaign - CNS News.com - 26 march 2007
African Ministers to meet over MDGs - The New Times - 26 March 2007
New contraception device available for women - ABC News - 20 March 2007
Rwanda: Country Needs Frw7 Billion for Population Control - AllAfrica.com - 16 March 2007
National Seminar on "Water Scarcity in Bangladesh: The Ways Out" - The World Bank - 23 March 2007
Tbilisi to Host First South Caucasus Annual Youth Reproductive Health and Rights Forum
The Georgian Times - 26 March 2007
First At-Home Conception Kit Puts Couples in Control of Their Fertility
- Conceivex Inc press release - 22 March 2007
Catholic Bishops Denounce Catholic Theologian's Writings That Abortion, Contraception Are Morally Permissible - Kaisernetworking.org - 23 March 2007
The law has no effect on number of abortions, only the consequences: Ipas chief
Vanguard Online - Nigeria
HIV/AIDS creep into Afghanistan - Pak Tribune - 20 March 2007
Global population - ARHA Letter to the Editor - The Canberra Times, 19 March 2007
Mr Gore goes (back) to Washington - Population Action International ViewPoint - 19 March 2007
New ring to rival Pill - The Daily Telegraph - 20 March 2007
UNFPA, UNAIDS Welcome Purnima Mane as New UNFPA Deputy Executive Director - UNFPA release - 19 March 2007
Museum of Contraception and Abortion Opens to Controversy - Deutsche Welle - 18 March 2007
A world being choked by people - The Canberra Times - 16 March 2007 (also Japan Times 18 March)
2050 population 9 billion: UN - The Canberra Times - 15 March 2007
We Refuse To Die So Rapidly, Women Said - The Conservative Voice - 15 March 2007
World population will increase by 2.5 billion by 2050 - UN Population Division press release - 13 March 2007
Rwanda: Protecting Women's Rights for Sustainable Development - AllAfrica.com - 12 March
Call to support development of microbicides - SpiritUK National AIDS Trust
PNG will prosper 'if women do' - thewest..com.au - 8 March 2007
PCI Youth Radio Shows Change Lives in Central America - CSwire - 6 March 2007
Biggest challenge facing world — population growth and location - International Herald Tribute - 1 March 2007
Australia provides support for the displaced in the Asia Pacific - Relief Web - 7 March 2007
Concern as pre-teen girls ask for contraception - The Herald (Zambia) - 6 March 2007 Women empowerment a guarantee to development of country: Sh. Rashid - Associated Press of Pakistan - 4 March 2007
NY Times letters on fistula article - NY Times - 4 March 2007
Large number of Filipinas working abroad helps control population - Gulf news.com - 5 March 2007
Consequences of population explosion, global warming - Saylac (Somalia News and Information) - 3 March 2007
Doyle Turns Down $600,000 In Federal Abstinence Money - Channel 3000 Wisconson - 3 March 2007
Fighting the Good Fight: Women's Rights Activism in a Time of Crisis - Pavyand's Iran News - 3 March 2007
Prioritising Women's Health - Medical News Today (from The Lancet) - 2 March 2007

Conception: never too early to be prepared
The Australian - 3 March 2007

APPCED concludes highlighting water conservation
The Daily Times (Pakistan) - 2 March 2007

Leader of Controversial 'Pro-Choice Catholics' Retires
Cybercast News - 2 March 2007

UNFPA Report Shows How to Reduce Gender-Based Violence
AllAfrica.com - 2 March 2007

Standard Day Method cycle beads in use by 3,000 in Rwanda
The New Times (Kigali) - 1 March 2007

Fiji praised for sex education classes
The Fiji Times Online - 1 March 2007

 

 

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