By Nen Si
Nov 11, 2025
Albanian youth are increasingly distancing themselves from doctors and relying on contraceptive methods based mainly on what they read online or the influence of their peers.
This is a warning that demands attention, as obtaining information from non-specialist sources increases the risk of misinformation.
Two new studies show dual impact of family planning: saving lives and driving women’s economic empowerment
November 3, 2025
Today the Guttmacher Institute unveiled findings from two groundbreaking research initiatives revealing the most comprehensive evidence to date of the transformative impact of family planning on women’s lives—underscoring the urgent need for sustained investment in global sexual and reproductive health. The new evidence has been released at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), which kicked off today in Bogotá, Colombia.
The two complementary studies—Adding It Up and FP-Impact—demonstrate that investing in comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care delivers immediate, life-saving benefits while simultaneously functioning as economic “seed funding” that expands national workforces and generates sustained economic returns.
Cuts to mobile clinic funding are leading to more unwanted pregnancies and unsafe births.
By Sarah El Gharib
October 30, 2025
When her mobile clinic shut down, Herisoa Bodo’s phone wouldn’t stop ringing. A client due for implant removal reached out again and again. The appointment never happened — and she became pregnant.
Bodo, a midwife with Marie Stopes International (MSI) Madagascar since 2012, kept fielding calls long after outreach teams had been forced to suspend services. “Women kept calling because they couldn’t find care,” she said. Her routes cover Analamanga, the region surrounding the capital Antananarivo, where MSI deploys buses converted into clinics and 4x4 teams into rural communities. For many women, those visits are the only reliable chance to see a midwife.
Continued: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/madagascar-mobile-clinics-close-due-to-aid-cuts/
By Anusha Couttigane, Vogue
October 30, 2025
On 23 October, 50 women in leadership across fashion, luxury, beauty and more convened for a private dinner at the Corinthia London. Attended by business leaders and celebrity personalities alike, the specially curated evening brought together women of influence for a rare moment of cross-industry female solidarity. Unlike typical events hosted by Vogue Business, this one focused on an underexplored issue: the global contraception crisis. Throughout decades of hard-won progress, access to modern contraception has played a critical role in enabling women to learn, earn and lead by preventing unwanted or unsafe pregnancies and giving women the chance to pursue education and careers. That progress is currently in jeopardy, with global policy and legal changes restricting access, compounded by up to 80% of donor funding for family planning being cut or threatened globally.
30 October 2025
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Ms. Diene Keita
Contraceptives save lives. For almost 50 years, global health authorities have recognized contraception as essential medicine. People want them, use them, and rely on them every day.
The evidence is abundantly clear: When women and adolescent girls have access to contraceptives, their pregnancies are more likely to be planned and safe, they are more likely to complete school, be employed and fulfil their potential, their children are healthier, and their societies are more prosperous. The truth is that contraceptives reduce abortion rates and lower the incidence of death and disability related to complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
Oct 20, 2025
Jaroslav Lukiv
Japan has for the first time approved over-the-counter sales of an emergency contraceptive pill, its manufacturer says, allowing women in the country to take the medication without prescription.
ASKA Pharmaceutical said wider access to the pill would "empower Japanese women in the area of reproductive health". A date for it to go on sale has yet to be announced.
The pill will be labelled as "medicine requiring guidance", meaning women must take it in the presence of a pharmacist.
October 9, 2025
Elizabeth Nethery, Amanda Black, Amanda K Downey, Laura Schummers, Wendy V. Norman
Why should women in British Columbia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and the Yukon have access to free contraception while the rest of Canadians do not? Our new research, published in the British Medical Journal and JAMA Pediatrics, underscores the urgent need for universal prescription contraception coverage nationwide. Spoiler alert: cost matters.
When B.C. launched universal coverage for prescription contraception in April 2023, more people used contraceptives, and importantly, more chose the most effective methods. When Ontario introduced universal coverage for those younger than age 25 in January 2017, we found a similar jump in the most effective contraceptive methods.
By Dr Hadia Aziz
September 26, 2025
Two years ago, in a government healthcare setting at the periphery, I encountered a 29-year-old mother of three who had been driven to a life-threatening, unsafe abortion by an untrained practitioner because she had no access to contraception.
Her story is not an anomaly in Pakistan. It is a chilling microcosm of a far wider national crisis. Her tragic experience highlights a fundamental failure of our state and society to safeguard the most basic right of its women: bodily autonomy.
Continued: https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1346380-autonomy-to-plan
Sustainable Population Australia
26 September 2025
World Contraception Day (WCD) is a day of observation recognised by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFP). The central focus of WCD is ‘a world where every pregnancy is desired’.
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) upholds the rights of women to control their bodies. As a result of the withdrawal of USAID, SPA calls on the Australian Government to step up and provide additional assistance for family planning in its aid budget. In Australia, women should not be denied access to contraception by health professionals.
Thomson Reuters
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Denmark’s prime minister apologized in person on Wednesday to women who were victims of a decades-long involuntary birth control campaign, which has left islanders with deep scars and strained relations with their former colonial power.
Thousands of women and girls as young as 12 were fitted with intrauterine devices without their knowledge or consent between 1966 and 1991, the year Greenland was given authority over its healthcare system.
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