Morning Briefing

IRIN reports on one community's efforts to increase access to contraceptives and help provide information on family planning in Madagascar. The news service highlights efforts by women in Antalaha, Madagascar, who formed an association called Femmes Interessee au Development de Antalaha (FIDA). The association uses World Bank funding to run a center that provides information and support to teenage girls, with a focus on preventing early pregnancy; broadcasts "a radio program aimed at educating women about their reproductive health and legal rights; ... disseminates information on how to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs)"; and works with husbands to change "negative attitudes towards family planning, [which] were preventing even those women who could get contraceptives from their local clinic from using them," according to IRIN.