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August 16, 2022

Weaving Rights Into Women’s Realities: an ongoing webinar series that explores the many facets of CEDAW as a framework and tool for feminist rights-based advocacy!

Click the flyer below or here to watch Bhavya Joshi's webinar via YouTube

Announcement of webinar series that explores the many facets of CEDAW as a framework and tool for feminist rights-based advocacy!

May 22, 2022

"Berkeley professor from Angola talks about the threat to abortion rights—globally"

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May 17, 2022

UC Berkeley Bixby Center Faculty Director and UCGHI Co-Director Ndola Prata co-hosted UC Global Health Day

UCGHI Conference for Social Justice and Global Health was held at UC Santa Cruz.

To watch the video of the event, click here and skip the ads.

To read UCGHI's summary of the event, click here.

March 15, 2022

Ndola Prata’s Video Presentation: Innovation through Telemedicine to Improve Medication Abortion Access in Musanze, Rwanda

Telemedicine provides a unique opportunity to increase access to abortion care in Rwanda by task-shifting the provision of medication abortion while still complying with law that states only medical doctors can authorize abortion services. In this project, nurses/midwives in public health centers in Musanze District are providing first trimester medication abortion services by using telemedicine to connect with district hospital doctors for authorization.

January 30, 2022

Bixby Center Summer Internships 2022: application is closed

Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability funds graduate student summer internships and dissertation research in the areas of family planning, population and reproductive health. The principal focus of the program is on family planning issues in developing countries where population growth rates remain high and reproductive health services are poor or inaccessible. (Internships that focus only on HIV/AIDS do not meet the criteria.)