Chart of the Day: The Number of Unintended Pregnancies Drop Worldwide Mark Leon Goldberg March 6, 2018Today's chart comes from the Guttmacher Institute, with data drawn from a just-published Lancet study that shows the rates of unintended pregnancies around the world are on the decline.The study compared rates of unintended pregnancies from the period of 1...
A Male Birth Control is Coming to Market. But Not for Americans and Europeans? Alanna Shaikh, MPH April 10, 2017A researcher in India has developed a highly effective, inexpensive, long-acting, reversible form of birth control, with minimal side effects. For men.In fact, it was developed a decade ago and it’s been in clinical trials since then. Now it’s ready for m...
“Plan B” Contraception Now Available to all Americans. But What About the Rest of the World? Mark Leon Goldberg June 11, 2013220 million women want modern contraception, but can't get it.
Top 10 Global Health Milestones in 2012 Mark Leon Goldberg December 14, 2012PSI Impact magazine, for which I am a contributor, asked its readers to nominate 10 great global health moments of the past year, then asked experts write profiles of each milestone. This list will lift your spirits.
Watch Live! London Summit on Family Planning Mark Leon Goldberg July 11, 2012There's a big-deal conference underway in London right now with representatives and leaders from scores of developing and donor countries and top NGOs and philanthropies. Their collective goal: bring modern family planning services to the 220 million women in the developing world.
Getting Ready for the London Summit on Family Planning Jaclyn Schiff July 10, 2012Wondering what that #FPSummit hashtag is all about?
Melinda Gates and Gates Foundation’s Makes New Family Planning Push Mark Leon Goldberg April 5, 2012Later this morning, Melinda Gates is hosting a TedXChange conference devoted to family planning and contraception. Watch live.
House Votes to Eliminate Funding for UNFPA Mark Leon Goldberg July 27, 2011Cutting funding for UNFPA will end up costing more in the long run. In the short term, cutting funding to UNFPA will result in more women dying child birth; more unplanned pregnancies; and prevent a key mechanism for female empowerment worldwide.
Family Planning and Foreign Policy Mark Leon Goldberg May 6, 2011Today, more than half of women of reproductive age in the developing world, some 600 million, now use modern contraception, up from only ten percent in 1960. Still, there are approximately 215 million women, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, who want to avoid pregnancy but do not have access to contraception.
