President Bush has decided for the seventh year to withhold funds allocated to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which conducts global work on issues such as reducing obstetric fistula, increasing access to contraception and family planning, HIV prevention, and improving obstetric care.
The administration has withheld funds allocated by Congress to UNFPA since 2002, citing concerns that UNFPA work in China was supporting forced or coerced abortions. However, a report delivered to the President in that same year resulting from a fact-finding mission to China stated that "We find no evidence that UNFPA has knowingly supported or participated in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization in the PRC." At that time, it was recommended that all of the allocated funds be released to the UNFPA for its global work, while withholding funds specifically from programs in China.
As last week’s Department of State release indic...
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I’m not one to get sappy over Starbucks, but this story about a 51-year-old barista who is donating one of her kidneys to a customer with polycystic kidney disease is too good to pass up.
Sandie Andersen took the job more than four years ago for the health benefits, which her husband’s job does not provide. Now she’ll share her health with Annamarie Ausnes, 55, a university administrative assistant who started coming in for a daily pick-me-up about three years ago. The women b... more
The Washington Post has an interesting if somewhat frustrating front-page story today about the rise of allergies and immune-system diseases -- which experts say have "doubled, tripled or even quadrupled in the last few decades, depending on the ailment and country."
"Allergic diseases" includes ailments such as hay fever, eczema, asthma and food allergies. Autoimmune diseases include lupus, MS, Type 1 diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease. In addition to varying theories about what’s c... more
This will be a long one, but two articles on c-section were recently brought to my attention for discussion here.
The first is a recent study of what happens when women attempt VBAC and how their outcomes change after having had a VBAC successfully. The authors prospectively looked at 13,532 VBAC attempts from 1999-2002 at several U.S. academic medical centers among women who were considered candidates for it - those with singleton pregnancies, with at least one previous c-section by a low tra... more
The Census Bureau has released a new report on women’s working patterns, choices, and benefits during and after a first pregnancy, Maternity Leave and Employment Patterns of First-Time Mothers: 1961–2003 [PDF]. The report reveals trends over the recent decades, and concludes, "Overall, these findings indicate that women are staying longer at work, returning more rapidly after having their first child, and, in general, choosing to incorporate work life with childbearing and childrearing m... more
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