Nov 7, 2023 3 (Photo by Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle/Getty Images) Pro-Palestinian activists are resurfacing claims that Israel subjected Ethiopian immigrants to long-term
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A 2016 study in the International Journal of Ethiopian Depo-Provera is a hormonal form of birth control that is injected every three months
It has some adverse effects like changes in menstrual pattern, loss in bone mineral density and risk of weight gain
In January 2013, the Israeli health ministry discontinued a program targeting Ethiopian Jews in the country without informed consent
And this was a book written six years before Ethiopian women were unknowingly given the Depo-Provera contraception
Depo-Provera (contraceptive injection): Depo-Provera is a well-known brand name for medroxyprogesterone, a contraceptive injection for women that contains the hormone progestin
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According to the testimony by dozens of women interviewed for a report published by Isha LeIsha, a feminist centre in
signs of a blood clot - sudden numbness or weakness, severe headache, chest pain, sudden cough, coughing up blood; problems with vision or speech, swelling or pain in an arm or leg
But according to a 2009 study by the feminist organization Isha L’Isha, there was a significant rise in the number of Ethiopian women receiving Depo-Provera at those HMOs as well in 2000-2009
After Israel was accused of forcing Ethiopian women to accept injections of the contraceptive Depo-Provera in an attempt to lower birth rates among black immigrants, an official has for the first time admitted use of the drug among Ethiopian women