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Unsafe abortions rise as contraceptive funding is cut
Eran Bendavid at Stanford University, California, studied abortion rates in 20 African countries affected by the Bush restrictions on funding. He found that – in contrast with the apparent intention of the restrictions – abortion rates were more than twice as high in countries heavily affected by the policy as they were in those that weren't.
January 19, 2012 in New Scientist

Annual global study reports progress against HIV
In a report last week in the British Medical Journal, Dr. Eran Bendavid of Stanford University Medical School and his colleagues said it has been possible ...
November 23, 2010 in Los Angeles Times

Global economic woes make universal access to AIDS drugs unlikely
Those investments have worked," said Eran Bendavid, MD, MS, an instructor in medicine and first author of the study. "But we're reaching the point where we ...
November 19, 2010 in Stanford Medical Center Report

Will access to AIDS drugs in Africa continue?
... prices and mobilizing resources from the wealthy countries," Eran Bendavid, MD, first author of the new study in the British Medical Journal, told me.
November 19, 2010 in Scope (blog)

The US Global Health Initiative Informing Policy With Evidence
Corresponding Author: Eran Bendavid, MD, MS, Stanford University, General Internal Medicine, 251 Campus Dr x332, Stanford, CA 94305 (ebd{at}stanford.edu).
August 17, 2010 in Journal of American Medical Association (subscription)