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Lady Sugg, a former Foreign Office minister, has challenged her onetime boss Dominic Raab to admit he is cutting the UK aid budget for girlsâ education by more than 40% as the foreign secretary also suggested UK bilateral aid to Africa would be reduced to a third of what it was two years ago.
She also claimed the government was planning to close its flagship Womenâs Integrated Sexual Health programme and impose cuts of about 70-80% to spending on the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition.
The news came on the day the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, spoke to the Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, about a girlsâ education fundraising summit they are jointly hosting in July.
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Pouliquen) The structure of the campaign - with frequent messages over 2.5 years and the focus on engaging programming - was well adapted to influence behavior through this mechanism. In 2014, only 16% of women of childbearing age in Burkina Faso used modern methods of contraception, and the average woman gave birth to six children over her lifetime. High fertility rates and short spacing between births are both associated with poor health outcomes for women, but social norms and lack of (or mis)information can discourage contraceptive use. Mass media campaigns have potential to provide information on the benefits and logistics of family planning and influence social norms at low cost. This two-level randomised controlled trial (RCT) assessed the effectiveness of a 2.5-year mass media campaign implemented by Development Media International (DMI) to increase modern contraceptive uptake in Bu
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21 December 2020
This has been a year like no other. Yet the fight for sexual and reproductive health and rights by our awe-inspiring teams and partners around the world has continued in the face of uncharted challenges. Here, we share 20 moments from 2020 that have shaped the year for IPPF.
1. IPPF’s COVID-19 response
COVID-19 has upended life as we all knew it. The impact on public health has been cataclysmic, and we have the utmost gratitude and admiration for our Member Associations who stopped at nothing to carry on delivering vital sexual and reproductive healthcare during this unprecedented year.
We are in awe of every worker and every volunteer who was able to continue doing their very best to provide vital sexual and reproductive healthcare, even at risk to themselves. They are truly heroes, and we are forever grateful for their dedication and commitment.