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The Impact of Freedom on Fertility Decline

Campbell M, Prata N, Potts M

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 2013

Although fertility decline often correlates with improvements in socioeconomic conditions, many demographers have found flaws in demographic transition theories that depend on changes in distal factors such as increased wealth or education. Human beings worldwide engage in sexual intercourse much more frequently than is needed to conceive the number of children they want, and for [...]

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Confronting 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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Big issues deserve bold responses: Population and climate change in the Sahel

Potts M, Graves A

African Journal of Reproductive Health, 2013

Parts  of  Africa  have  the  most  rapid  population growth in the world. Recent studies by climatologists  suggest  that,  in  coming  decades, ecologically vulnerable areas of Africa, including the Sahel will be exposed to the harshest adverse effects of global warming. The threat hanging over parts of sub-Saharan Africa is extreme. Fortunately,  there are evidence-based achievable [...]

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Why Bold Policies for Family Planning are Needed Now

Potts M, Weinrib R, Campbell M

Contraception, 2013

Last spring at a Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) talk in Berlin, Melinda Gates used this phrase, “The most transformative thing you can do is to give people access to birth control.” She expressed similar sentiments at the London Summit on Family Planning on July 11, 2012, as did the British Prime Minister David Cameron, and [...]

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Operations Research Projects

Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage at the Community Level: A Compendium of Operations Research

Prata N, Holston M

2013

VSI in collaboration with local and international partner organizations conducted operations research (OR) across seven countries in Africa and Asia to determine the feasibility, acceptability, and program effectiveness of misoprostol use to prevent postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) at the community level. Developed for policy makers, stakeholders and researchers, the compendium includes an overview of the basic components of the OR model, country program summaries, and cross-cutting results and best practices to contribute to the growing evidence base on the community-level use of misoprostol to prevent PPH.

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Operations Research Projects

Rwanda PPH Misoprostol Flipchart

2013

Information, education and communication (IEC) campaign sample from a postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) operations research project in Rwanda using the local Kinyarwanda language.

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Rwanda PPH Misoprostol Handout 2013

2013

Information, education and communication (IEC) campaign sample from a postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) operations research project in Rwanda using the local Kinyarwanda language.

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Zimbabwe PAC Brochure: “Using misoprostol tablets to treat incomplete abortion”

2013

Information, education and communication (IEC) campaign sample from a postabortion care (PAC) operations research project in Zimbabwe.

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Organizational Archive

Connecting Women with Care: 2011/2012 VSI Biennial Report

2013

From health center to home, policy to practice, factory to pharmacy, VSI is "connecting women with care." Read more about VSI's collaborative efforts in 2011 and 2012 to expand women's access to life-saving medicines and services.

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Zimbabwe PPH Poster: “Prevent Excessive Bleeding After Childbirth”

2013

Information, education and communication (IEC) campaign sample from a postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) operations research project in Zimbabwe.

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