Family Planning

In the Family Way — World Contraception Day With Sustain’s Sheila Hollender

Contraception plays an important role in helping mothers have healthy pregnancies, healthy babies and healthy families. 

When girls are able to delay their first pregnancies until adulthood, time and…

Andrise on Family Planning

Andrise is one of our graduating midwifery students with Midwives for Haiti. Described as sassy, spunky and independent by her instructors, we love that Andrise also puts respect at the center of her patient care.

Two Global Conferences we wish we were attending

Every Mother Counts knows that family planning is an essential tool for preventing maternal deaths and improving women’s quality of life. When a woman has the knowledge and the tools to plan, space and prevent pregnancies, she and her family are…

World Contraception Day 2013

WCD is a worldwide campaign with a vision for a world where every pregnancy is wanted, Its mission is to improve awareness of contraception to enable young people to make informed decisions on sexual and reproductive health.

Family Planning — Is It Just A Girl Thing?

All this month we’ve talked about families and one thing is crystal clear. 

 It takes more than one person to make a family and though technically, intercourse isn’t even necessary anymore to make a baby, people are still having sex. Somebody gets…

Global Birth Club: April Update

Marie-Ange, our midwife-friend from Haiti, Chennifer, our full-time working mom from Florida, Norah, our stay-at-home mom in Uganda and Erin, Every Mother Counts Executive Director answer our questions for April.

Coming Together for Global Health in Obama’s Second Term

I recently attended a briefing at the Capitol by the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Global Health Policy in Obama’s Second Term.

I listened along with a group of congressional staffers to a panel speaking about…

Erin’s Tuesday — Thinking about Family Planning

Whenever we visit clinics and talk with health authorities, we’re amazed by health statistics that impact women.

Whenever we visit clinics and talk with health authorities, we’re amazed by health statistics that impact…