Let’s Talk About Menstrual Hygiene Mark Leon Goldberg May 28, 2018Ed note. This is a special guest post authored by Thorsten Kiefer and Gabrielle Fitzgerald. Thorsten Kiefer is founder and CEO of WASH United, a Berlin-based non-profit organization that works to end the global sanitation and hygiene crisis. Gabrielle Fitzgera...
Will Ireland Join 133 Other Countries Where Abortion is Legal? Coby Jones February 15, 2018The Prime Minister of Ireland recently announced that he will be campaigning to end the constitutional ban on abortion in Ireland. Ireland is the only country in the European Union that does not allow abortion in any form and is the only developed country in t...
Map of the Day: Where Abortions are Most Dangerous Around the World Alanna Shaikh, MPH September 28, 201745% of all abortions are around the world are "unsafe" according to a new study by the World Health Organization and Guttmacher Institute. This amounts to 25 million potentially very dangerous abortions worldwide -- every year. (See map)The study, publishe...
After Tragedy, a Successful UN Test Case in Peru for Reproductive Rights Mythili Sampathkumar January 22, 2016Fifteen years ago in Lima, Peru a 17-year-old girl, K.L., was told her unborn fetus had anencephaly. The birth defect meant the baby would be born without a forebrain and carrying to term would put K.L.’s life in danger. In instances such as this the Peruvian ...
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.
Maternal Deaths: A Preventable Global Tragedy Mark Leon Goldberg July 11, 2012Imagine a cruise ship full of women sinks every day for the rest of the year - killing nearly 1,000 women per day.The sad truth is that a tragedy of this magnitude does happen every day. Every two minutes, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy
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?
US Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Talks Maternal Health at the World Health Organization Mark Leon Goldberg May 22, 2012This is a great speech by US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who is in Geneva this week for the World Health Assembly. Sebelius offers some global context to America's own struggles with providing adequecate health care to women and mothers.
