Tag Archives: women

Family Planning Saves Lives, But Millions Can’t Access It

The following first appeared on Care2.com _______________________ Around the world, an estimated 222 million women who don’t want to get pregnant cannot access contraception. I was surpised to learn Namutebi was one of them.   On the way to the Ugandan hospital where I met Namutebi, I saw several clinics advertising family planning services. The […]

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Thriving in Nacala: One Community’s Story

I recently spent a week in Africa, my second visit to the continent in 2012.  After a quick stop in Cape Town for The Economist’s global meeting on healthcare in Africa I went on to Mozambique to visit Save the Children programs in rural communities in the north of the country.   I came away […]

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