Recently, 365 Senegalese women received family planning counseling and contraceptives, including 288 first-time users, through events sponsored by the Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health/Family Planning/Malaria Project.

Earlier this week, The United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership released a new paper, ”Health Information and Health Care: The Role of Technology in Unlocking Data and Wellness,” in collaboration with the mHealth Alliance.

IntraHealth's Tulenko and Stilwell responded to a Commentary in The Lancet:

International organisations are not preventing health workers from being employed in public systems, but are providing what public health systems often neglect—good working conditions, on-time salaries, and recognition.

As of last week, 2,105 boys and men were circumcised during the first nine days of a three-week male circumcision campaign in Tanzania’s Shinyanga region. Male circumcision services, which are part of an IntraHealth International-led HIV prevention effort, started in late November 2010 and have now reached 2,795 boys and men out of the 25,000 the project aims to reach by September 2011.

Last month, at the 3^rd International Conference for the Society of Obstetric Fistula Surgeons in Dakar, Senegal, 300 participants from more than 30 countries outlined some concrete ways to prevent and treat obstetric fistula and assist women who have a fistula regain their health and rebuild their lives. The recommendations included: