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Senegal's Grandmothers Lead Charge for Health Over Tradition

Reducing mother and child mortality is one of the biggest health challenges in the country, where many women do not seek routine medical care, experts say.

Senegal: Dancing Grandmothers Lead Charge for Health Over Tradition

Thomson Reuters Foundation, 8 August 2016

Grandmothers are using their influence to promote modern medicine and health care, and discuss issues from family planning and malnutrition to maternal mortality Read more »

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Community health worker Awa Diagne volunteers in her village in Senegal (file photo).

Africa: Waging a Lyrical War Against Genital Cutting

Al Jazeera, 15 October 2015

She doesn't remember how old she was when it happened. Was she four years old or maybe five? She just can't recall. But 33-year-old Fatou Mandiang Diatta does remember the iron… Read more »
Senegal: Educating Youth About Sexual and Reproductive Health On the Beaches of Senegal

UNFPA, 27 January 2016

On a hot summer day in December 2015, Khady, a quiet 19-year-old, approached a lively crowd of Senegalese youth gathered on a beach in Keur Massar, a development near Dakar. Read more »

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Senegal: Grandmas Fight Female Mutilation

A campaign to educate women about the practice of female genital mutilation has helped to reduce the acceptance of excision among grandmothers, who often make circumcision ... Read more »
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