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Fevereiro 19, 2014

Sounding Off on the Struggles of LGBTI Development Professionals

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex development professionals around the world — no matter their sector of work — are faced with challenges and

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Fevereiro 18, 2014

Jah Prayzah Gets Circumcised

Popular musician Jah Prayzah and his Third Generation Band will have to slow down on shows after undergoing a circumcision procedure yesterday to protect

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Fevereiro 14, 2014

Working Towards a World Without Gender-Based Violence

Using her experience as a victim of gender-based violence during her childhood, a Houston-based crusader for women’s empowerment has now conceptualised a project “Wajood”,

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Fevereiro 5, 2014

HIV/AIDS Prevention Rates in PNG Less Than 5 Percent

PORT MORESBY, PNG — The prevalence of HIV-AIDS in Papua New Guinea is estimated to be more than 20% but the prevention rate is

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Fevereiro 5, 2014

Mozambique: New Nutritional Supplement for Infants Launched

Maputo — The US-based NGO Population Services International (PSI), which is a longstanding partner of the Mozambican Health Ministry, on Wednesday launched a nutritional

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Fevereiro 5, 2014

Population Services Kenya launches

Population Services International (PSI) has been operating as an international NGO for the last 25 years. Last week it officially launched a new organisation titled

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Fevereiro 4, 2014

PSI reveals new condom brand

Speaking at a recent press briefing launching a new condom brand, Executive Director Richard Harrison said he strongly believes it is high time low

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Fevereiro 2, 2014

35 Leading Tweeters On Family Planning And Reproductive Health

Last week I compiled a list of my top 25 tweeters on maternal health. I received great feedback about how useful the list was

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Janeiro 27, 2014

LIBERIA: PSI Joins as 6th Member of the Liberia WASH Consortium

The Liberia WASH Consortium (LWC) is pleased to announce that Population Services International (PSI) has since October 2013 joined the Consortium as the 6th

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Janeiro 24, 2014

The Impact of Global Population Growth

CNBC Africa spoke to Karl Hoffman; CEO of Population Services International on the side-lines of the World Economic Forum on his idea’s regarding the

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Janeiro 24, 2014

Global Health Fellow’s Experience Opens Doors Back Home

Neal Piper returned as a changed man from a six-month Global Health Fellow assignment in Swaziland last year. His experience in a country where

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Janeiro 13, 2014

MTV Shows About Teen Moms Helped Drop the Teen Birth Rate

The birth rate to teenage mothers in America has declined almost continuously over the past 20 years, according to the Department of Health and

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Janeiro 11, 2014

High risk and no reward for the ‘in-betweens’ of Burma’s sex industry

No data exists about the number of women who work in the “grey area” of Burma’s sex industry, such as karaoke lounges and massage

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Janeiro 10, 2014

AIDS Foundation continues to crush stigma; engaged more youth in 2013

St. Maarten AIDS Foundation (SAF) continues to keep St. Maarten on track for the Millennium Development Goals dealing with the eradication of HIV/AIDS. In

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Janeiro 9, 2014

The bright spots of theatre

A very bright spot in the 2013 theatre was the establishment in March of the Association of Community Theatre Artists (ACTAH) under the leadership

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Dezembro 3, 2013

PSI/Ethiopia Celebrates its 10th Anniversary

On December 3, 2013, PSI/Ethiopia completed 10 years of successful operations as a registered entity in the country. To celebrate its many achievements, the

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Novembro 14, 2013

PSI Caribbean empowers YTEPP with HIV/Aids prevention toolkits

Youth empowerment was the common aim when PSI Caribbean handed over HIV/Aids prevention educational materials to YTEPP on November 8. Read the full article

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Novembro 12, 2013

Fifth Annual World Pneumonia Day Marks Successes and Challenges in Tackling #1 Killer of Children

(BALTIMORE, MARYLAND) — Global health advocates today commemorated the fifth annual World Pneumonia Day by calling on global leaders to scale up existing interventions

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Outubro 28, 2013

PSI featured in Stanford’s Global Health Innovation Insight Series

PSI has been featured in Stanford’s Global Health Innovation Insight Series, a collection of mini-case studies. The case studies were documented with the hope

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Outubro 23, 2013

GAIN cements PSI partnership with a memorandum of understanding

GAIN and PSI signed a Memorandum of Understanding this week in Geneva in an agreement to work together in the fight against malnutrition. Potential

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Setembro 24, 2013

Hygiene Must Be Recognized as Key Intervention to Reduce Child Mortality

New York, 24 September 2013 – Unilever’s soap Lifebuoy today called for hygiene to be recognized as a key intervention to reducing child mortality,

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Agosto 8, 2013

Circumcision: Clear-cut rites shape stronger men

‘We are Pedi [Northern Sotho]. My son always knew that the day would come that he would have to go to initiation school. It

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Julho 31, 2013

PSI’s Postpartum IUD inserter: 1 of 22 Award Nominees for Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development

A dedicated post-partum intrauterine device (PPIUD) inserter developed by PSI in collaboration with SPIRES at Stanford University is one of 22 award nominees for

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