Good health is necessary for women to thrive, but there has been a chronic lack of investment in understanding conditions that disproportionately affect women and girls. We push for women’s health to get the attention it deserves, and for new health innovations that meet women’s needs.
When it launched in 2011, the Ouagadougou Partnership set an audacious goal for 2020: Increase the number of women using modern contraceptives by at least 2.2 million in nine francophone…
Even three decades later, Dr. Lorna Tumwebaze still remembers the fear she felt after encountering her first patient living with HIV at a hospital in her native Uganda. She had…
Improving newborn health is only possible if we also improve maternal health. Better care in community clinics or outposts can help families avoid the need of going to the hospital.
For every young person around the world, adolescence is a formative period in their life that is powerfully shaped by their health, education and social surroundings in which they grow…
Global HIV infections have fallen for the past two decades, but addressing the challenges that young women in sub-Saharan Africa face will be critical if we want to maintain progress.
Helen GeorgesPATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in HealthPhone: 206.285.3500Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $50 million to the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention for…
