Family Planning and HIV Prevention: Creating Synergies

Both family planning (FP) and its integration with HIV programs have been overshadowed by donor emphasis on other urgent health issues, namely HIV, malaria and tuberculosis. This is especially true in sub-Saharan Africa where the HIV epidemic is most acute, fertility rates are high and modern contraceptive use is low.1 This occurs despite the high unmet need for FP in the region and the proven impact of FP programming on a broad range of development goals, including health, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. FP and HIV prevention interventions are synergistic in efforts to prevent unintended pregnancies and HIV, and their integration contributes to lessening the burden of other health and socio-economic challenges faced in the developing world.This brief discusses the lack of synergy between FP and HIV prevention interventions and the benefi ts increased synergy could bring. It discusses current limitations to contraceptive access and their effect on the potential for integration, and what PSI is doing to improve FP/HIV integration. PSI is committed to increasing and improving such integration in order to maximize health impact and cost-effi ciency

‘I understood the words but I didn’t know what they meant’: Japanese online MBA students’ experiences of British assessment practices

We report on a case study of high Japanese student failure rates in an online MBA programme. Drawing on interviews, and reviews of exam and assignment scripts we frame the problems faced by these students in terms of a ‘language as social practice’ approach and highlight the students’ failure to understand the specific language games that underpin the course assessment approach. We note the way in which the distance learning and online context can make the challenges faced by international students less immediately visible to both students and institution

Graduate School Commencement Exercises Program, May 20, 2010

Graduate School Commencement Exercises Program, May 20,2010

Graduate School Commencement Exercises Program, May 17, 2012

Graduate School Commencement Exercises Program, May 17, 2012