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The author with a child she helped to deliver. Photograph courtesy of the author.

by Jenny Shapiro –USA– During my three years at International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR), I have been fortunate—and humbled—to work with incredible colleagues whose dedication to securing sexual and reproductive health and rights for all is unsurpassed. …

Giving Childbirth Back to Women through the Support of a Doula Read more »

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by Zubeida Mustafa –Pakistan– A version of the following article was originally published August 12, 2009. In light of recent reports of illegal kidney transplants in Pakistan, the author has updated the article. – Ed. Several years ago Pakistan’s newspapers …

Resurgence of Kidney Tourism in Pakistan Read more »

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by Carrie R. Sparrevohn – USA – In 2005 I traveled to Uganda, East Africa, for the first time. I met Margaret Nangobi on that trip, in Mwanyangiri, a tiny village about an hour’s drive from the capitol. What transpired …

Woman to Woman: How Giving in Uganda Changed My Life Read more »

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by Katie Thompson – USA – Elections invite a whirlwind of campaign promises: some that are feasible, some that are not, and some that will be forgotten on Inauguration Day. One of the most prominent issues for the Democratic candidates …

National Healthcare? Too Many Hands in the Honey Pot Read more »

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by Grace Kwinjeh – South Africa – Last week Zimbabwe’s civil society and opposition held a commemorative vigil marking the anniversary of the gruesome torture of opposition leaders (myself included) at the hands of the Mugabe government. The world watched …

“South Africa Treats Zimbabwean Refugees Like Criminals” Read more »

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By Constance Manika – Zimbabwe – I am always left cursing and depressed and angry after covering assignments where I meet with People Living With HIV and AIDS. (We call them PLWAs here.) Having covered HIV and AIDS issues for …

A Journalist’s Despair: HIV-Positive Zimbabweans Can’t Access ARVs Read more »

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by Suad Hamada – Bahrain – Women’s empowerment apparently clashes with the not-so-hidden agendas of Kuwaiti and Bahraini parliamentarians. Dirty politics have resulted in the recent resignation of the first two female ministers ever to join the cabinets in either …

First Female Ministers in Bahrain and Kuwait Resign, the Victims of Dirty Politics Read more »

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by Constance Manika – Zimbabwe – “When elephants fight, it is the grass which suffers.” – African Proverb The Zimbabwean government introduced an ambitious Antiretroviral Drugs (ARVs) program in 2004, but Ropafadzo Kondo, who tested HIV positive in 1999, got …

Open Letter to the Next US President: Get Tougher on Mugabe’s Despotic Government, But Send Aid for the Suffering Zimbabweans Read more »

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by Viktorija Plavcak – Slovenia – Two weeks ago in Celje, the third largest city in Slovenia, a fifty-year old man, barely able to drive himself to the hospital, walked into the ER in the middle of the night complaining …

Bureaucracy Killed a Man: Slovenia’s Health Care System Creates Another Tragedy Read more »

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By Suad Hamada – Bahrain – A young girl has faced the threat of being expelled from her primary school only because her mother is infected with AIDS. This secret was neither known to the girl nor the school, but …

Children Suffer in Silence – Living with AIDS in Bahrain Read more »