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Jun 19
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Maria Antonieta Alcalde Castro and Kinza...

The Lancet Group
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Coming to you from Women Deliver 2026 in Melbourne/Naarm, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health Gavin Cleaver speaks with Maria Antonieta Alcalde Castro, the new director general of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, about her decades of work and activism in the field and the current situation for SRHR. We also speak with Kinza Hasan, of Wo ... Show More
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