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Catholic organizations around the world are still digesting how the selection of Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina, now Pope Francis , might impact their work, and that includes disease-prevention efforts.
15 March 2013 | ABC News
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From one perspective, a method that a woman need only renew once every three months was a gift. One injection four times a year and no fear of unwanted pregnancy. But the potential for abuse of this method was obvious from the beginning, and abuse there was, from paternalistic family planning providers.
20 February 2013 | BMJ Group blogs
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After a ferocious national debate that pitted family members against one another, and some faithful Catholics against their church, the Philippine Congress passed legislation on Monday to help the country’s poorest women gain access to birth control.
19 December 2012 | New York Times
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A University of Washington team has developed a versatile platform to simultaneously offer contraception and prevent HIV. Electrically spun cloth with nanometer-sized fibers can dissolve to release drugs, providing a platform for cheap, discrete and reversible protection.
10 December 2012 | University of Washington press release
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In early 2012, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) announced it could not conclusively determine whether hormonal contraceptive injections increased the risk of HIV transmission. Almost a year later, WHO is still struggling to communicate clear guidance for women using injectable contraceptives, who are largely in the dark about these concerns, say activists, even as scientists are developing a clinical trial that could finally offer answers.
06 December 2012 | IRIN Plus News
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Young women who start using hormonal contraceptives for birth control often stop using condoms, but a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health finds that if they later discontinue using hormonal contraceptives, they tend not to resume using condoms. This leaves them open to both unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
25 October 2012 | Science Daily
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Madeleine French analyses Barack Obama and Mitt Romney's policies on issues such as abortion and contraception.
19 October 2012 | The Guardian
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Multiple prevention technologies for sexual and reproductive health, also called combination or dual technologies, include vaccines, microbicides and devices like intravaginal rings, diaphragms, and are designed to address multiple sexual and reproductive health needs, including prevention of unintended pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases including HIV, and other reproductive track infections (RTI).
23 August 2012 | Citizen News Service
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Scientists believe they are a step closer in the difficult journey towards developing a male contraceptive pill, after successful studies in mice.
17 August 2012 | BBC
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The Depo-HIV issue is at present hotly debated and essentially the consensus among policy makers has so far favoured inaction and incomplete disclosure (exemplified implicitly, perhaps by WHO and CDC) versus accepting the results at hand and acting on them. Both sides are well intentioned but a policy based on depriving the public and clients of a truthful understanding of their risks cannot in our view, be justified. Many thoughtful participants in this debate are in agreement with our position, that women should have full access to information and choice of methods.
21 July 2012 | Open Democracy
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