Awareness campaign informs women about contemporary contraceptive choices
Written by kath markov on Monday, 05 July 2010
Earlier this year a colleague told me a story about Assefa, a woman he met in Ethiopia. Assefa lives in small rural village where both she and her husband work as farmers. They are very poor and had for many years wanted to try to practice family planning.
In late 2008 I travelled to rural Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines, where I visited a centre which provides the local community with midwifery and family planning services.
A bid to end abortion aid ban
Written by Michelle Grattan - Capital City Daily on Thursday, 29 January 2009Investigation
If our Government scrapped these guidelines, women's lives would be saved.
Interview Alert - United Nation's State of the World Population report 2009
Written by Claire Maloney on Wednesday, 18 November 2009Media Alert- Indigenous Sexual Health Community Service Announcements
Written by Claire Maloney on Sunday, 05 July 2009
Who: SNAKE Condoms are Australia’s first and only Indigenous marketed condoms, created by Indigenous youth, for Indigenous youth. SNAKE Condoms encourage Indigenous youth to practice safe sex, helping reduce the high rates of sexual transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, and unintended teenage pregnancy prevalent in Indigenous communities which are often rural and isolated. SNAKE Condoms form a part of Marie Stopes Australia’s (MSA) Indigenous sexual health program. MSA is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to raising funds and implementing projects for improving sexual and reproductive health amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia.
Government overturn on abortion aid - a new era for women
Written by Claire Maloney on Tuesday, 10 March 2009Government action on abortion aid will save lives
Written by Claire Maloney on Friday, 06 March 2009Marie Stopes International Australia today called on Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, to save women’s lives by removing the AusAID Family Planning Guidelines, in time for International Women’s Day (8 March).
