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Student midwives persevere amid conflict and pandemic in Afghanistan
The COVID-19 pandemic is not the only crisis preventing students from attending class. The recent and intensified conflicts all over Afghanistan, particularly in Kandahar Province, have also resulted in widespread fear…
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Young leaders blaze the trail toward a more equitable future
In the face of extraordinary challenges, young people are not only calling for change – they are the change.
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Midwifery training helps doctors, nurses level up their skills in rural China
Midwifery training is not just for midwives.
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Crises in Haiti leave women and girls ever more vulnerable
Even before President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in early July, the already politically unstable Caribbean country was in turmoil. Last year, it had to contend with COVID-19; Tropical Storm Laura, which killed…
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Treating the invisible wounds of violence in Peru
Nearly every morning for the past six years Gabriela Gonzales has been going to the Honorio Delgado Community Mental Health Centre (CMHC) in the Jesús María neighborhood. She is a psychiatrist who treats survivors of…
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Do you know where your birth control is? Tracking contraceptives improves health services – and choice in Uganda
When Isirimu Margret got pregnant at 16, her hope to continue her studies vanished. She dropped out of school, married her partner and had their child. So when the chance to obtain family planning counselling at her…
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Midwives bring portable ultrasound technology to remote communities in Kenya
In her four years at Sena Health Centre, midwife Goretti Adhiambo has seen too many lives lost to complications in pregnancy and childbirth. But that is changing.
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In the Central African Republic, the devastating price women and girls pay for war
Not far from the airfield in Bambari is Aviation Camp for internally displaced persons, where dilapidated straw dwellings house people who have fled conflict that has plagued Ouaka prefecture. Some have been here since…
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With COVID-19 heralding possible fertility changes, leaders must urgently support women’s rights and choices
The pandemic has affected women’s access to family planning information and services around the world, particularly in marginalized communities. Yet at the same time, many women around the world say the pandemic and its…
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