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Bringing Contraception Closer to Rural Women in Malawi
Seventeen-year-old Sekani wakes up early in her rural Malawi village, and hopes her health center will have the oral contraceptive pills she uses. If it doesn’t, she will have missed a whole day of work on a farm and walked six hours for nothing. She’ll also risk getting pregnant the next time her boyfriend wants to have sex without a condom.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How to Improve Public-Private Health Care Collaboration in India
India has made rapid advances in improving health care, but to address lingering issues such as accessibility and quality, the country needs to move toward a better-integrated care system, with public and private providers collaborating. Based on its experiences, ACCESS Health International proposes three key shifts that might help reach that goal.
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Social startup creates business-in-a-box solution to empower women
When digital strategist Jovana Korac first heard that many South African girls missed school because they couldn’t afford to buy sanitary products, she was appalled. It isn’t a South Africa-only problem either.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How an Indian Comic Book Is Teaching Girls About Their Periods
When Aditi Gupta got her first period, aged 12, everyone told her to keep it a secret. Even her closest family members in her native India couldn’t know. She was forbidden from worshipping at her temple while she was menstruating, and instead of sanitary products used rags that caused her to have rashes.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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HIV prevention initiative seeks to break barriers in sub-Saharan Africa
Ntokozo Zakwe went to a health facility to ask for information about safe sex when she was 19 years old but the negative response she received from a nurse discouraged her from going back. Most girls and young women in South Africa who try to seek information on how to have safe sex are either shut down or discriminated against, Zakwe said.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Self-Injection of Contraception is Feasible, Acceptable in Uganda
Self-injection of the contraceptive Sayana® Press is both feasible and highly acceptable among women participating in the first such research study conducted in sub-Saharan Africa, according to results published online by the journal Contraception.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Breaking Out of Silos: Leave Your Disciplinary Ego at the Door
In order to create lasting social impact, program designers, implementers and donors must embrace multidisciplinary approaches and invest the resources and effort needed to execute them effectively. This is the only way we will make real progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. We need to work together, and leave our egos behind.
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UNFPA takes sexual health accelerator to Uganda
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has taken its sexual health-related iAccelerator to Uganda in collaboration with Kampala-based hub Outbox following a successful launch in Nairobi.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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