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For pregnant COVID-19 patients in Egypt, a safe place to deliver
As soon as she started her ninth month of pregnancy, Mayada Reda started coughing and feeling feverish. Then she lost her sense of taste and smell.
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Putting the brakes on COVID-19: Safeguarding the health and rights of women and girls
Officially, the COVID-19 pandemic has sickened 12 million people and left more than half a million dead. But the full toll of this catastrophe has been incalculably greater.
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For Kyrgyzstan’s LGBTQIA+ community, risks escalate under COVID-19 pandemic
Alina* has faced a lifetime of challenges all too common to transgender people. And she says those difficulties have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Safety elusive for women in South Sudan’s protection sites amid pandemic
"Intimate partner violence is worse with the COVID-19 situation,” said Poni Rose Modo, a social worker.
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Five things you didn’t know about practices that harm girls
Every day, hundreds of thousands of girls around the world are harmed physically or psychologically, with the full knowledge and consent of their families, friends and communities.
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Health workers in West Africa “in daily danger” while providing reproductive health services
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, health workers in several West African countries say it has been challenging to prevent the spread of the virus while providing life-saving sexual and reproductive health…
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Youth mobilize to support Egypt’s front-line health workers
Dozens of young people are assembling thousands of hygiene and dignity kits for health workers working on the front lines of the COVID-19 response.
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Meeting family planning needs in Nepal’s quarantine centres
When Kabita Bhandari arrived at a quarantine centre in far-western Nepal, residents thought she was bringing food. Instead, she was delivering another kind of essential supplies.
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Teachers and mothers join forces to keep girls in school in Malawi
In the 2013-2014 school year, four girls became pregnant and left. The next year, five more girls dropped out. The year after that, another four.
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