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Kenya announced on Tuesday its population stands at 38.6 million after a national census conducted last year, marking an increase of around 10 million since the last census in 1999. Planning Minister Wycliffe Oparanya said the increase of about one million people per year puts pressure on resources and he urged for more investment and family planning to improve ...

A US regulatory agency on Friday approved an emergency contraceptive pill that can prevent pregnancy if taken up to five days after unprotected sex. The Food and Drug Administration said it granted approval for the drug, called ella, after two phase III clinical trials that "provided compelling data on efficacy and sufficient information on safety." The drug, manufactured by French ...

Argentina's public health system is failing many of the women who depend on it for access to birth control and abortion, a human rights group said Tuesday. In a new report, Human Rights Watch said the Argentine government hasn't implemented its own reproductive health care laws and ...

Charlene Cotton will talk to anyone about sex. Several days a week she stands behind a table decorated with a bowl of flavored condoms and safer sex pamphlets, calling to women passing on the street, "Come check out my table. Don ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a new policy on Tuesday to encourage population growth, dismissing Iran's decades of family planning as ungodly and a Western import. The new government initiative will pay families for every new child and deposit money into the newborn's bank account until they ...

Campaigners on Tuesday lamented the fact that the female condom, just as effective as its male equivalent, has failed to gain the profile it deserves in the fight against AIDS. "Women are tired of asking permission to save their own lives," Serra Sippel, president of the Washington-based Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) told journalists at the World ...

Fourth of July firecrackers echo the gunfire that helped the colonies win their independence more than 200 years ago.During last weekendÕs Independence Day celebration at the Clark County Shooting Park, you could have heard the real thing. And for active and retired military, the shooting was free.
The park gave free rounds of trap or skeet shooting, or ...

Federal health experts say a new type of morning-after pill that works longer than existing products is safe and effective. The Food and Drug Administration's panel of reproductive health experts voted unanimously that the pill ellaOne successfully reduces the chance of pregnancy for up to five days after sex. Plan B, the most widely used emergency contraceptive pill, is ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Ibrahim Issa, a jovial Syrian taxi-driver who wears a blue robe over an ample belly, has nine children from two wives. He plans to marry a third wife soon. He says it is up to Allah whether more children arrive, and not for him to interfere, say, by using contraception. Like all Damascus taxi-drivers, he complains about the ...

A new national survey found that a growing number of teens say they use the rhythm method for birth control, and more teens also think it's OK for an unmarried female to have a baby. Experts say those findings may help explain why there hasn ...