Tricia Petruney
Title
Senior Technical Officer, Global Health, Population, and Nutrition
Organization
FHI 360
As a Senior Technical Officer in FHI 360's Global Health, Population, and Nutrition group, Tricia Petruney supports governments and partners with applying evidence to improve health policies and programs. She focuses on strengthening the linkages between family planning and HIV/AIDS, and raising the visibility of family planning as a tool for global development.
Posts By Tricia Petruney
We’ll begin with a simple and intuitive causal relationship: voluntary use of contraception prevents unintended pregnancies. Unintended pregnancies result in thousands of deaths globally and many more disabilities each year. Many unplanned pregnancies
end in abortion. Almost half of the 40 million abortions performed each year are unsafe, placing nearly 20 million women at risk for infection, hemorrhage, disability, and death. Thus, contraception prevents unintended pregnancies and saves women’s lives.
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