Posts Tagged with ‘Let’s talk about the Pill’
Jill, Women Deliver
By: Jill Sheffield, President of Women Deliver and Elisabeth van der Steenhoven, Director of WO=MEN, a network of organizations promoting gender equality in the Netherlands
In just a few weeks, th...
Saba
By: Saba Ismail, one of the Women Deliver 100 Young Leaders and program manager of the “Sahailee Hotline”
In Pakistan, talking about sexual and reproductive health, sexuality and contraception...
BRIDGET
By: BridgetAkudo Nwagbara, Chair of the Youth Health Workers Advocates, Nigeria – MNCH
Social media has revolutionized the way people across the globe interact with one another. At the recent, th...
Tsiaro
By: Hasinihaja Tsiaro Barijaona Raharison, one of the Women Deliver 100 Young Leaders and an Oxfam Action Partner
In Madagascar, there remains a lack of information about contraception. Myths and m...
Rachel
By: Rachel Cernansky, blogger at Treehugger.com and winner of the Women Bloggers Deliver contest; excerpted from the original post at Treehugger.com
The connection between increased access to fami...
Yunuén
¿Cuál es la diferencia del aprendizaje sobre métodos anticonceptivos y el acceso a ellos entre hombres y mujeres jóvenes? ¿Por qué?
Por: Yunuén Flores, Directora del Programa de Géneroy un...
Mariko
By: Mariko Rasmussen, public health student at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in Reproductive and Family Health.
They say kids in Los Angeles grow up fast. Sitting across from ...
BRIDGET
By: BridgetAkudo Nwagbara, Chair of the Youth Health Workers Advocates, Nigeria - MNCH
“I had a dream to be the best that I can at anything I want to be….I couldn’t because I became a mother ...
Dalia
By: Dalia Al-Eryani, one of the Women Deliver 100 Young Leaders
A little over a year ago, I was working to raise awareness regarding the safe age of marriage in a small rural village in the mountai...
Janna, Women Deliver
By: Janna Oberdorf, Director of Communications and Outreach at Women Deliver
Happy World Contraception Day! If you haven’t heard of World Contraception Day, welcome, get excited, and tune in. The...
Janna, Women Deliver
By Janna Oberdorf, Director of Communications and Outreach at Women Deliver
Young people and contraception can be a tricky topic – for some reason, the idea that young people should have power ov...
Solomon, PIPED-Uganda
How do we ensure that women in developing countries can access the Pill? Let's work with local organizations, leaders, and health centers to help women.
This is a crucial and challenging question...
Chris
How can we ensure that every woman who chooses can access the Pill or other appropriate contraceptive options? There are many technical factors to consider.
Health-Care System, regulations, manufac...
Jon, Catholics for Choice
Though the FDA approved the Pill fifty years ago, the Catholic Church still has not done so. The Vatican should readdress its stance and support the contraceptive Pill.
Fifty years ago, the US Food...
Jane, 34 Million Friends of UNF
Gender equality is our only way forward. To make it a reality, ensuring access to contraception is vital.
I was to marry Jay Roberts on August 14, 1965. I was 24. My periods were regular so I fig...
Carmen, IPPF/WHR
The Pill has touched the lives of many people but - like so many other technologies - remains an unknown luxury to around 200 million women, the majority of whom live in developing countries.
Unin...
Patricia, independent
Women who want access to contraception but are denied that right suffer illness, loss of quality of life, and even death. Let's ensure that all women have that right.
I first met Zhazia while worki...
Claire, Ashoka
How can we use cell phones for social change? With Ushahidi, we can help regnant and laboring women around the world.
As mobile and web technologies become increasingly accessible to those living i...
Bhumika, Freelancer
It's been fifty years since the Pill was introduced in America. How far have we come since then--and how far do we still have to go?
This year the revolutionary birth control pill will achieve a mi...
Mary, Co-Founder, All Our Lives
EDITOR'S NOTE: THIS BLOG-POST GOT THE MOST VOTES AND IS THEREFORE THE WINNING BLOG-POST!
How do we best ensure modern contraceptive access for over 200 million women worldwide — the one in six wo...
Ida, UNFPA
We, at Conversations for a Better World, are happy to announce the competition "Let's talk about the Pill". This is a call for your best and brightest ideas.
5... 4...3... 2.... 1.... Ladies and...
Katja, UNFPA
Imagine a world without the Pill. It is difficult, but this is the reality for millions of women worldwide who lack access to reliable forms of contraception.
Sometimes, I wonder where I and othe...
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