August 05, 2024
Kenya: Investing for Impact - Latest On Kenya's Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Development Impact Bond
At a government-run dispensary located in Nairobi's Kware informal settlement, 26-year-old nurse Steven Ngang'a attends to young mothers holding their babies. The girls, all aged… Read more »
February 06, 2024
Africa: Defying Tradition, Championing Rights
"Is [female genital mutilation] religious?" Under a tree in the quiet village of Dalocha Woreda in Central Ethiopia region, Nuritu Sirbar, the Head of the Dalocha district Women… Read more »
October 17, 2023
Kenya: Young SRHR Advocates Stand Up to Fake News and Stigma
The majority of young people living with HIV, 60 per cent of the global total, are in Eastern and Southern Africa and only 70 per cent in 12 countries in the region have access to… Read more »
March 03, 2023
Kenya: 'Midwives Are the Bridge' - Educator Duncan Shikuku On Helping Maternal Health Providers Ease Women's Fears and Save Lives
Midwifery educator Duncan Shikuku will never forget the day in 2011 when a new mother was rushed into the hospital where he worked, carried by her family. Read more »
February 09, 2023
East Africa: Women and Girls Fleeing Somalia's Drought Grapple Gender-Based Violence in Daadab Refugee Camps
Around Christmas time last year, Rukia Yaroow Ali, 38, arrived at Hagadera refugee camp in Daadab. Hunger and insecurity had forced her to flee her village in Jilib in Somalia,… Read more »
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