The US President has slashed nearly $600 million in funding for contraceptives – and the impact could be deadly for tens of thousands of women, reports chief international correspondent Bel Trew from Uganda and Zimbabwe
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The US President has slashed nearly $600 million in funding for contraceptives – and the impact could be deadly for tens of thousands of women, reports chief international correspondent Bel Trew from Uganda and Zimbabwe
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Exclusive: At least three countries are already out of some contraceptive methods – with more set to follow suit – leaving women…
The supplies could prevent an estimated 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe abortions if they were handed out, the…
In the opening moments of his presidency, Donald Trump made dramatic and sweeping cuts to US international aid. His main target:…
The supplies, including pills and implants, have already been paid for by US taxpayers - and will cost another $167,000 to destroy
Twenty years ago, a shake-up of Ethiopia’s abortion law led the maternal mortality rate to dramatically fall. Doctors tell Rachel…
‘This could compound the global regression on gender equality that we have seen accelerate in the last year’
