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Population and climate change: who will the grand convergence leave behind?
Campbell M, Casterline J, Castillo F, Graves A, Hall T, May J, Perlman D, Potts M, Speidel J, Walsh J, Wehner M, Zulu E
For many developing countries, investments in health have proved a great success. The Lancet Commission “Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation” and the 2014 Gates annual letter envision the possibility of a “grand convergence” by which more countries will have a child mortality rate as low as 15 per 1000 livebirths in 20 [...]
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RISBibTexAPAThe remarkable story of Romanian women’s struggle to manage their fertility
Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 2012
In 1957, along with many countries in Eastern Europe, Romania liberalised its abortion law. The Soviet model of birth control made surgical abortion easily available, but put restrictions on access to modern contraceptives, leading to an exceptionally high abortion rate. By the mid-1960s there were 1 100 000 abortions performed each year in Romania, a lifetime [...]
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RISBibTexAPAConfronting Maternal Mortality Due to Postpartum Hemorrhage and Unsafe Abortion: A Call for Commitment
Karanja J, Muganyizi P, Rwamushalja E, Sahin-Hodoglugil N, Holm E
African Journal of Reproductive Health, 2013
In this commentary co-authored by VSI and the Regional Experts' Summit Group, 35 ob/gyns and public health experts from 12 countries in Africa call for political commitment to expanding access to misoprostol for its many uses in maternal health.
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RISBibTexAPAVSIMaternal mortality: one death every 7 min
Potts M, Prata N, Sahin-Hodoglugil N
This comment in the Lancet explores the role of policy and research in using the prevention of postpartum hemorrhage and suggest a joint meeting by WHO and FIGO to revisit the 2009 statement by WHO which does not recommend the use of misoprostol at the community level.
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RISBibTexAPACriticism of misguided Chu et al. article
Potts M, Gerdts C, Prata N, Okonofua F, Sahin-Hodoglugil N, Hosang N, Weidert K, Fraser A, Bell S
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2012
Chu, Brhlikova and Pollock's article suggests the WHO rethink its decision to include misoprostol on the Essential Medi- cines List. Their paper is a sad example of workers in an elite setting advocating policies with the potential to endanger the lives of thousands of vulnerable women in low-resource settings.
Published in Journal of the [...]
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RISBibTexAPAGetting family planning and population back on track
Global Health: Science and Practice, 2014
After a generation of partial neglect, renewed attention is being paid to population and voluntary family planning. Realistic access to family planning is a prerequisite for women's autonomy. For the individual, family, society, and our fragile planet, family planning has great power.
Published in Global Health: Science and Practice 2014; 2(2), 145-51.
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RISBibTexAPAA new hope for women: medical abortion in a low-resource setting in Ethiopia
Prata N, Gessessew A, Campbell M, Potts M
Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 2011
Between February 2002 and January 2004 in the Adigrat Zonal Hospital, covering one-fifth of the large Tigray region of North West Ethiopia, there were 907 admissions with a diagnosis of abortion. Among these, 521 were induced by traditional, unsafe methods. Unsafe abortion was the leading cause of admission, accounting for 12.6% of all bed occupancy throughout this general hospital and 60.6% of the gynecological admissions. About 57% of patients admitted with unsafe abortions had serious complications, including tubo-ovarian abscess, vaginal laceration, uterine perforation, generalised peritonitis and renal failure. Three women died from complications of unsafe abortion. Five years later in the same hospital, between July 2009 and September 2010 unsafe abortion cases had declined, becoming the tenth cause of hospital admission. There were no deaths and no severe complications.
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RISBibTexAPAVSILes grandes questions meritent des responses audacieuses: la population et le changement climatique au Sahel
African Journal of Reproductive Health, 2013
Certaines régions d’Afrique ont la croissance démographique la plus rapide du monde. Des études récentes menées par les climatologues indiquent que dans les prochaines décennies, les zones écologiquement vulnérables de l’Afrique, y compris le Sahel, seront exposées aux effets néfastes les plus sévères du réchauffement climatique. La menace qui pèse sur certaines régions de l’Afrique [...]
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RISBibTexAPANdola Prata, MD, MSc: Planetary Health Solutions
Ndola Prata, MD, MSC, presented at the Stanford WHSDM Women's Global Health Forum. Dr. Prata is a Professor in Residence, Maternal Child and Adolescent Health at the University of Californina, Berkeley; Fred H. Bixby Endowed Chair in Population and Family Planning, Director, Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability, Co-Director, Innovations for Youth (I4Y) School [...]
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The role of private providers in maternal health
Agrawal P, Campball O, Prata N
Lancet, 2014
Every day, nearly 800 women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. A great many of these deaths are preventable; however, there is no single, straightforward solution. Because identification of every woman who will have a life-threatening complication during pregnancy or childbirth is impossible, saving of women's lives during pregnancy and childbirth needs a systems [...]
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