The World Health Organization (WHO) released a statement on February 16, 2012, upholding previous guidance indicating that women with HIV or at high risk of HIV can safely use hormonal contraceptives to prevent pregnancy. However, WHO has added new clarification instructing health care providers to strongly advise women with HIV or at high risk of HIV who decide to use progestin-only injectables, in particular, to also always use male or female condoms for protection against HIV.

Every year, 20 million low birth weight (LBW) babies are born. One of the biggest problems these babies face is simply keeping warm: They are too small to maintain their body heat at normal room temperatures. Four million of them each year do not survive their first month. A new nonprofit organization, Embrace, is helping these infants survive with its innovative Infant Warmer. “These babies are so tiny they don’t have enough fat to regulate their own body temperature,” Jane Chen, Embrace’s Co-founder and CEO, told a recent ABC News program. Over the next five years, Embrace estimates it could save 100,000 babies and prevent illness in as many as 800,000.