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2008

Future Directions for Australia’s International Development Assistance Program – speech by Bob McMullan MP, Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, 22 May 2008
Is contraception really evil in itself? – Global Nation, 21 May 2008
British lawmakers vote for lower upper time limit for abortions – International Herald Tribune, 20 May 2008
Adolescents Most at Risk - Jamaica Information Service, 11 May 2008
Uganda: HIV Cases Soar Among Kampala Sex Workers - The Monitor, 9 May 2008
Low condom use, high incidence of AIDS – Kuensel Newspaper (Bhutan), 7 May 2008
Rev. Wright: This HIV Threat Needs Media Blast – Women’s e news, 7 May 2008
AFGHANISTAN: Can condoms fulfil multiple expectations? – IRIN, 6 May 2008
Govt to earmark Rp1.6 trillion for family planning program – Antara News, 5 May June 2008
Community: Getting them to use it is the hardest part - The New Straits Times Online, 3 May 2008
Mortality figures belie indigenous mothers' plight - The Australian, 2 May 2008. Link to Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report Maternal deaths in Australia 2003–2005
Chastity Science Still an Oxymoron – Z Magazine, 1 May 2008

Uganda: Kyafu Urges On Family Planning – New Vision, 30 April 2008
More young women contracting HIV: AIDS official – Antigua Sun, 29 April 2008
Solving Europe's population crisis – BBC News, 29 April 2008
Campaign For Change Dame Carol's Plans For Social Transformation In PNG – Pacific Magazine, 27 April 2008
Family Planning agency receives new health kits – Solomon Star News, 26 April 2008
Move Over, Moods - Tehelka, 26 April 2008
Dueling protests target morning-after pill distribution ban in Chile - International Herald Tribune, 23 April 2008
Birthrates Help Keep Filipinos in Poverty - Washington Post Foreign Service, 21 April 2008
Pano Hembram of Jharkhand imparts sex education - Thaindian News, 18 April 2008
South Africa: Bottom of The Class in Saving Mothers and Babies - allAfrica.com, 17 April 2008
Decline In International Funding For Reproductive Health Threatening Efforts To Meet MDGs, U.N. Report Says - Medical News Today, 17 April 2008
Australia to give Cambodia fresh aid — Radio Australia, 14 April 2008
Family Planning Gets Mere Sliver of Aid Pie — Asian Tribune, 8 April 2008
Kenya holds out as abortion laws relax — Daily Nation Online, 8 April 2008
Beyond the Millenium Development Goals — RH Reality Check, 2 April 2008
Family planning funding ban faces review — Sydney Morning Herald, 18 March 2008

A matter of new life and death - Sunday Canberra Times, 24 Feb 08
Leading the Way on Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Asia-Pacific for Women in Humanitarian Crises - Press release, Hon Bob McMullan MP - 18 Feb 08
USAID Launches a $60 Million Child-Spacing and Reproductive-Health Program in Pakistan - Earth Times 14 Feb 08
PNG officials 'misusing AIDS funding' - news.com.au 30 Jan 08
Address youth issues: Officer - Fiji Times online 8 Feb 08
Youth workers to get manual - Fiji Times 7 Feb 08
Pregnant Women and their Children Fleeing Violence in Chad Face Increased Risk - African Press Organisation 6 Feb 08
Bush Budget Slashes Women's Health Funding - RH Reality Check - 4 Feb 08
PNG's AIDS council accused of inappropriate spending - ABC News 30 Jan 08
Govt gives Pacific $2m to fight climate change - ABC News 3 Feb 08
Chile's Morning-After Pill Hits Access Battle - Womens e-news 31 Jan 08
Impact of high population growth - the International News (Pakistan) 29 Jan 08
Australia funds overseas aid research - Relief Web 29 Jan 08
Editorial, Opinion Piece Respond To Guttmacher Report Finding A Decline In U.S. Abortion Rate - Medical News Today 29 Jan 08
Australia should match Cuban aid to East Timor - Green Left Weekly 26 Jan 08
Give young free condoms, says MP - BBC News 28 Jan 08
Nepalese Environmental Resource use affected by rising HIV/AIDS figure in Nepal - American Chronicle - 28 Jan 08
Seoul to Fund N.Korea's Census- chosun.com 30 Jan 08
Shocking pregnancy figures released - Livenews.com.au 30 Jan 08
Family planning effort gets big push in Iowa - Omaha World-Herald
Medical Miracle Needed to Save Twins Joined at the Head - Fox News 14 Jan 08
New tactics in war against HIV - The Australian, 13 Jan 08
Liberal revives abortion aid push - The Age, 8 Jan 08

2007

Advocates of high population growth; your brains must have gone on leave - The Monitor (Kampala) 28 Nov 07
Population: From boom to doom - the Daily Star (Bangladesh) 29 Nov 07
Views on Abstinence only divide presidential candidates - Women's e-news 27 Nov 07
UNFPA assisting govt to raise HIV/Aids awareness - Times of Oman 25 Nov 07
AIDS AD breakcondom taboo - The Australian - 23 Nov 07
Conservative Correctness - New Matilda 21 Nov 07
PNG flood toll tops 150 - The Australian - 21 Nov 07
Male contraceptive at risk of being orphaned - The Daily Telegraph - 22 Nov 07
Top ex-pat scientist urges population curbs - News.com.au 20 Nov 07
China launches new push to slow population growth - Reuters 19 Nov 07
Only Words?- RH Reality Link 16 Nov 07
CFFC Statement on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Meeting - PR Newswire 15 Sep 07
The abortion ship's doctor - The Guardian 14 Nov 07
European parliamentarians pitch population control - from Business World 13 Nov 07
Three's a crowd - The Observer 11 Nov 07
New international study warns of the dangers of population growth in Yemen - Yemen Observer 10 Nov 07
WA study to find why Implanon causes bleeding - The West 12 Nov 07
Aussie-Kiwi aid group wins top award - The Age 12 Nov 07
Morality is not a dirty word - The Age 9 Nov 07
Cameroon: Women Declare War Against Maternal Mortality - AllAfrica.com - 8 Nov 07
Early puberty risk for girls - Sydney Morning Herald - 8 Nov 07
UK Women Still Receiving Inadequate Information Surrounding Contraception - Medical News Today 7 Nov 07
European Legislators Reiterate Need To Focus On Reproductive Health For Philippine Development - AHN 8 Nov 07
Men believe family planning is woman's business - Times of India - 6 Nov 07
UN to scale up adtivities on Vietnam population issues - Than Nien News 5 Nov 07
Make more babies, Chinese told - The Star (Malaysia) 5 Nov 07
Family planning appointment is anti-reproductive rights - Workers World 2 Nov 07

 

 

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