Medical staff prepare to enter a hospital isolation unit in western Uganda during a suspected Ebola outbreak in 2018.
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The Sudan strain of the Ebola virus has been identified in Uganda for the first time in more than a decade.
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Adolescent girls are disproportionately affected by sexual and reproductive health issues. These proposed law substantively addresses these disparities.
A church-goer attends an inclusive church for the LGBTI community in Rwanda.
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A significant number of Rwanda’s LGBT community experience hostility. This includes at work and when trying to access health services.
A demonstrator holds a sign during a rally in support of abortion rights on May 3, 2022 in Seattle, Washington.
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For countries that look to the US for guidance and for funding, the consequences will go beyond abortion.
Mural en la avenida Haile Selassie en Nairobi, Kenia.
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A pesar de la pandemia, las disparidades y las estructuras de poder desiguales en la salud mundial siguen intactas. Será difícil afrontar nuevos desafíos globales, como el calentamiento global, si no cambia el sistema.
Unintended pregnancy, especially among young people, can be disempowering.
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Up to 257 million women who want to avoid pregnancy are not using safe, modern contraception methods
A woman breastfeeds her baby.
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Kenya wants parents to be able to make more informed choices about feeding their babies.
A mural along Haile Selassie avenue in Nairobi, Kenya.
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It’s a huge cause for concern that, two years into the pandemic, the disparities and unequal power structures in global health are still intact.
Students at a primary school in Nairobi, Kenya, queue to have their temperature taken when public schools fully reopened on 4 January 2021.
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Despite government efforts to provide digital resources for students kept out of school for most of 2020, access to these platforms was deeply unequal
People in poorer urban areas aren’t receiving the necessary healthcare.
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Urban poverty is having an adverse impact on the health of mothers and children.
Open resources enable people to take active roles in shaping their own learning.
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Open education resource platforms improve access to education and are globalising education on a scale never seen before.
There’s been substantial progress in reducing child deaths.
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A child born in sub-Saharan Africa or Southern Asia is 10 times more likely to die in the first month of life than a child born in a rich country.
Kenya national rugby union team supporters, like these celebrating victory over Germany, face a compulsory vaccine mandate.
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Mandates should be considered only when all geographical, financial and cultural access issues have been addressed. They should be a last resort.
La nouvelle loi béninoise sur l'avortement prend en considération les conditions socio-économiques de la femme.
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La nouvelle loi béninoise sur l'avortement prendra en considération la situation éducationnelle, professionnelle et matérielle de la femme.
Diabetes can be controlled using medicines, diet and lifestyle modification.
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Insulin and oral medicines for diabetes are mostly not available at the recommended level in the African region.
Benin’s new abortion law considers a woman’s socioeconomic situation.
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Benin’s new abortion law will take a woman’s educational, professional and material situation into consideration.
Kenyan athlete Agnes Tirop was recently killed.
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Statistics show that about 41% of women in Kenya have reported physical or sexual violence from their husbands or partners in their lifetime.
Sur le continent africain, les taux de vaccination contre le coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 sont très inégaux, et globalement bas.
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Dans près de la moitié des pays d’Afrique, les taux de vaccination contre la Covid-19 sont inférieurs à 2 %.
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Almost half of the countries in Africa have vaccination rates below 2%.
Exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months makes more difference to a baby’s health and survival than any other intervention.
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Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding has increased across all countries but few are likely to meet the 2030 goal of 70%.