PAI Blog
Drumbeats of Change from Malawi
Traveling to Africa, the continent of my birth, right after the U.S. elections results is particularly rewarding for me. Of course, there is palpable delight prevailing throughout the continent on the re-election of President Obama. Yet my excitement has … Continue reading
Creating Opportunities for Gratitude
Originally posted on the Huffington Post Naomi Daka smiles and swings her arms, singing along with the other women in a back room of the Chawama Health Centre in Lusaka, Zambia. It’s the end of her weekly meeting of her … Continue reading
No More Lip-Service: What It Would Mean To Really Invest In Women & Girls
Originally posted on InterAction Today marks yet another International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Wouldn’t be wonderful instead if we were celebrating the anniversary of the day poverty was eradicated? Despite our best efforts, that day may still be … Continue reading
London Summit: Southern Governments’ Promises to Keep
by Suzanna Dennis My blog yesterday tried to make sense of the financial commitments made at July’s London Summit on Family Planning. Today the organizers of the Summit are concluding two-days of meetings on how to implement the commitments. While we … Continue reading
Mind the Gap: Crunching the Numbers from the London Summit on Family Planning
by Suzanna Dennis Last week the eagerly awaited Southern country commitments from the London Summit on Family Planning hit the web. They complement the $2.6 billion in “new” money that donors and the private sector pledged for family planning over … Continue reading
HIV epidemic, family planning needs are linked, and demand an integrated approach
Originally posted on Science Speaks With the conclusion of the international London Summit on Family Planning earlier this month, the global health community has shifted its focus to the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. It is exciting to see … Continue reading
Why World Population Day Matters
Originally posted on National Geographic In case you hadn’t heard, today is World Population Day and there are now about 7,058,000,000 of us. Another 200,000 will be added tomorrow. Last October, when the world hit the 7 billion mark, Population Action International developed an online … Continue reading
Perspectives on the London Family Planning Summit 2012: Seeing the Forest and the Trees
Originally posted on RH Reality Check Albert Einstein once said, “Never memorize something that you can look up.” As we head into the July 11th London Summit on Family Planning, we can focus more on concepts than numbers, because we … Continue reading
Friends Like These
Cross-posted to Ms. Magazine Like many, I went to Rio full of expectations. I had been feeding off of the hype around Rio for months: “This UN conference will be a seminal moment in history!” “The outcomes from Rio +20 … Continue reading
Why women’s needs must be part of the conversation at Rio
Originally published on Grist The outcome document for this week’s Rio+20 summit is 49 pages long. Some 23,917 words. Women were mentioned in less than 0.01 percent of the text. And only two of the 283 sections addressed women’s needs … Continue reading