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#Science #Evidence #PublicHealth Global Med Director @MSIChoices Non-Exec Director MD. MPH. FFPH. PhD Tweets my own | https://t.co/v4c3Y9ZsOk

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“Someone who says ‘I’m against abortion but I am in favour of the death penalty’ is not #ProLife “Someone who says that ‘I’m against abortion but agree with inhuman treatment of immigrants in America’, I don’t know if that’s #ProLife Thank you, @Pontifex https://t.co/ajyNvq8Yz6
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abcnews.go.com
Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church
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4 years since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, the rights of Afghan women and girls – including to education, work and safety – are being denied. @UN_Women has 10 key facts about the world’s most severe women’s rights crisis: https://t.co/qRqTyqWUGR
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🚀 A Breakthrough in Safe Abortion Access in #Rwanda! 🌍 An inspiring pilot study employing a hybrid #telemedicine model that makes early #medical #abortion more accessible, safe, and client-centred. https://t.co/rQZT8vcDMh
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publichealth.berkeley.edu
Researchers launched a pilot program in Northern Rwanda to determine whether a hybrid telemedicine/in-person model could expand access to abortions.
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2 months
The #Trump administration destroys $9.7 million worth of #BirthControl tomorrow. They were for #women & #girls in low income countries where #FamilyPlanning access is very limited. Despite @MSIchoices' offer to pay for re-branding & shipping costs, they will be destroyed. 😰🥹😢
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People in rich countries have fewer #children. Why? The statistics are clear. As economies get richer, children get rarer. Nearly all developed countries have #fertility rates between 1.2 & 1.8, significantly below the “replacement level” (2.1). https://t.co/FL61WIMaQQ
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nytimes.com
Economic growth has the unintended side effects of making parenthood more difficult and expensive.
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Doctors call the new #Weightloss drugs revolutionary. Game-changing. Unprecedented. Soon, they may be obsolete. #Wegovy, #munjaro, etc. will be rapidly overtaken by much more potent medications. https://t.co/l69IGwJtNn
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nytimes.com
The drugs in development include a pill that a new trial suggests is about as effective as Ozempic.
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4 months
Doctors call the new #Weightloss drugs revolutionary. Game-changing. Unprecedented. Soon, they may be obsolete. #Wegovy, #munjaro, etc. will be rapidly overtaken by much more potent medications. https://t.co/l69IGwJtNn
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nytimes.com
The drugs in development include a pill that a new trial suggests is about as effective as Ozempic.
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🅵🅾🆁 🆃🅷🅴 🅵🅸🆁🆂🆃 🆃🅸🅼🅴 🅸🅽 🅷🅸🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 !!! A landmark vote decriminalised #abortion in #England & #Wales. Thank you to everyone who joined the campaign. 👏 👏 👏 https://t.co/6lbjloPwOi
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humanists.uk
Today MPs voted 379 to 137 to back an amendment to take abortion out of English and Welsh criminal law for women in relation to their own pregnancies. Humanists UK has long been alarmed about the...
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5 months
"#Trump’s proposed “baby bonus” to encourage population growth is just a band-aid on a broken system that is still fundamentally at odds with #motherhood". @Allwork_space makes some great points here. https://t.co/HA1Tqektya
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Most working moms face lost promotions, stalled careers, and pressure to delay or limit motherhood due to workplace bias. 87%
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6 months
Good news about #ADAM from @contraline. The water-soluble hydrogel successfully blocks vas deferens for >2 years in human trials. https://t.co/aIi6u3x8rS
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theguardian.com
Product known as Adam implanted in sperm ducts could offer a reversible alternative to condoms and vasectomies
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6 months
Some people will do anything for a bit of money. Between 2022 and 2024, in #England: * >6,100,00 illegal vaping products were seized * >3,700 records of shops selling vapes to children #Vaping #Nicotine #Vape #PublicHealth @BBCNews https://t.co/UWrHTDXdSu
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bbc.co.uk
Single-use vapes are among the main driving forces of the black market, the BBC is told.
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