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With your support and partnership, EngenderHealth is helping millions of women and girls realize their sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide. Check out our latest accomplishments and how we are engendering hope, change, and opportunity in nearly 20 countries here.

As part of Agir pour la Planification Familiale (AgirPF), a project supported by U.S. Agency for International Development in West Africa, EngenderHealth and partners launched a new comic book series written by and for young people in Togo. Through reading groups and discussion, this creative medium is being used to educate and engage more young people about sexual and reproductive health and locally available services. Read more about the effort here and help spread the word on social media.

In just two years, by offering a mix of service delivery methods and a wider variety of contraceptive choices, the Expand Family Planning project was able to better meet women’s needs and significantly increase the availability and use of modern contraceptives across six districts in Tanzania. Read the results here.

Julia Ramadhani almost died. Through the Postabortion Care Family Planning (PAC-FP) Project, EngenderHealth is dedicated to providing technical support on strengthening the family planning component of postabortion care services. The services offered through the project saved 32-year-old Julia’s life. Read here

EngenderHealth has recently shared several tools and resources:

• Webinar on “Vasectomy: What’s the Latest?”
• Webinar: “A Call to Action to End Iatrogenic Fistula
• Iatrogenic Fistula: An Urgent Quality of Care Challenge
• Assibi et Salifou: La Premiere Fois
• Report on a Workshop on Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health in Togo
• Compte-Rendu de L'atelier sur la Santé Sexuelle et Reproductive des Adolescents et Jeunes au Togo
• Increasing Family Planning Capacity, Access, and Quality: Results from EngenderHealth’s ExpandFP Project in Tanzania

EngenderHealth staff recently published research articles:

• Men’s Understanding of and Experiences During the Postcircumcision Abstinence Period: Results From a Field Study of ShangRing Circumcision During Routine Clinical Services in Kenya and Zambia
• Surgical Outcomes of Newly Trained ShangRing Circumcision Providers
• The Tarunya Project's efforts to improve the quality of adolescent reproductive and sexual health services in Jharkhand state, India: a post-hoc evaluation

We Aren’t Family Planning; We Are Future Planning! - The Huffington Post
Laws Failing to Halt Philippines Teen Pregnancies - Inquirer.net
Nigeria: 'In Nigeria, There Are 20 Fistula Surgeons to 120,000 Patients' - Vanguard
Vasectomies: Turning an 'Act of Love' into a Global Movement - The Guardian