unwanted pregnancy Archives - The Hippocratic Post

WHO: new guidelines on abortion care

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Hippocratic Post

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidelines on abortion care , in a bid to protect the health of women and girls and help prevent over 25 million unsafe abortions that currently occur each year. “Being able to obtain safe abortion is a crucial part of health care,” said Craig Lissner, acting Director for […]

Reducing HIV risk for women

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Hippocratic Post

The first long-acting option to protect women from HIV, proven to reduce women’s HIV risk, has been recommended for use by the World Health Organization (WHO). For nearly two decades, researchers from the School of Pharmacy at Queen’s University Belfast have been supporting development of a new drug-releasing vaginal ring to protect women from infection […]