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July 28, 2014

Tomorrow’s Development Model: Partnership Not Aid

Forty-three years ago, PSI responded to a dire need to increase access to contraceptives in the developing world and began an experiment to “do

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July 26, 2014

PSI Malawi Re-launches Youth Alert Mix Programme

With an aim of intensifying that there are free sexual and reproductive messages to the youth across the country, the Population Services International (PSI)

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July 20, 2014

Strawberry Flavoured Condoms a Hit

The old condoms, whose packaging featured a happy couple, had become out of date and sometimes unpopular because of their unappealing latex smell. The

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July 20, 2014

PSI To Distribute Mosquito Nets To The Vulnerable In WES

Yambio County Health Directorate, in collaboration with Population Service International (PSI) on Friday held a County planning meeting on the distribution of treated mosquito

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July 18, 2014

Liberia: Blind Man Constructs Toilet – Urges Others to Do Same

In his 70s, blind John Gweh, has embraced the methodology behind the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Initiative in his town Kwenkor, Gola Konneh

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July 15, 2014

PSI at the 20th International AIDS Conference

From July 20th to 25th PSI will join thousands of HIV program implementers, activists, researchers, policy makers and persons living with HIV in Melbourne,

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July 14, 2014

NexThought Monday: Expanding the Universe of Impact Investing

Craft microbrews. Vintage craft cocktails. Obscure single-origin coffees and teas. Kale. These items drum up excitement among small and sometimes overlapping communities. But by

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July 9, 2014

Making the Voices of 10,000 Women Matter for Preventing Disease

I am the mother of two beautiful young women, and what I want more than anything else is to help them, to the best

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July 1, 2014

Population Services International: Sex & Social Marketing in the Caribbean

SEX. Thousands of Trinidadians and Tobagonians do it every day, many ignorant or simply uncaring about healthy sexual practices. So how do you get

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June 30, 2014

Hobby Lobby May Turn Back Clock on Women’s Health

The Supreme Court ruled Monday in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores that family-owned companies are not required to cover some types of contraceptives for

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June 30, 2014

Hobby Lobby may turn back clock on women’s health

The Supreme Court ruled Monday in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores that family-owned companies are not required to cover some types of contraceptives for

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June 11, 2014

Nutrition supplements to improve children’s health

Kaysone Phomvihane district, Savannakhet province: Public and private sector partners united in Savannakhet province yesterday to kickstart the ‘1000 Day Project’ to improve child

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June 10, 2014

Creating Lao ‘Superkids’

The Lao Ministry of Health, UNICEF, Population Services International, the University of British Columbia, and mining company MMG are working together in three of

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June 10, 2014

Healthy Kids are Superkids: UNICEF Partnership Aids Nutrition in Laos

PUBLIC and private sector partners united in Savannakhet Province in the Lao PDR today to kick-start the 1000 Day Project: an important initiative targeting

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June 9, 2014

What Will Resuming Direct Budget Support Mean for Implementers in Haiti?

How do international organizations like Population Services International coordinate with local authorities to push development in such a challenging environment as post-earthquake Haiti? In this

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May 19, 2014

Long-term Contraception Methods Better

Population Services International (PSI) in collaboration with Lucknow Obstetrics and Gynecological Society (LOGS) organised a workshop on ‘Reproductive health, to reduce maternal mortality rate,

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May 13, 2014

Why, How Market Dynamics Matters: Interventions can improve health outcomes, but it’s a time-consuming and complex process

Why are so many global public health experts talking about “market dynamics” these days? Whether we call it “market shaping” or “market facilitation” or

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May 7, 2014

Selling Circumcision for HIV Prevention at the Epicenter of the Global Epidemic

When Zimbabwe’s most famous poet and musician, Albert Nyathi, decided to get circumcised, everyone had an opinion. For Albert, poetry has always come first,

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May 7, 2014

With eyes already on Nigeria, world leaders gather in country to discuss future of Africa

With the world’s eyes already turning toward Nigeria and Boko Hiram’s kidnapping of almost 300 girls, the World Economic Forum on Africa opened today

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May 6, 2014

PLoS Collection on Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Launched

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) published a collection of innovative studies today highlighting the impact and future implications of voluntary medical male circumcision

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May 2, 2014

Richard A. Frank, past leader of nonprofit Population Services International, dies at 77

By Bart Barnes Richard A. Frank, a past president of Population Services International, a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization providing global health programs targeting malaria, child

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May 2, 2014

PSI plans health app with Telenor and Ooredoo in Myanmar

Improved mobile phone services could also bring more up-to-date health information, particularly for pregnant women. Population Services International, better known as PSI, is planning

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April 28, 2014

Male Circumcision Advertising Campaign Wins Award

The ‘Pinda muSmart/Ngena kuSmart/Get Smart’ male circumcision campaign won the coveted Advertising Campaign of the Year Award at the recently held Ngoma Advertising Awards.

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