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Nuns schooled on sexual and reproductive health in Bhutan
Bhutan
Nuns might seem like the last people needing sexual and reproductive health education. But in the tiny, landlocked Himalayan nation of Bhutan, holy women are being empowered by this information – and they, in turn, are…
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"Best friends" save women’s lives in war-weary Central African Republic
Central African Republic
Mathilde learned she was pregnant under the direst of circumstances: in a displacement camp in the war-ravaged Central African Republic, where she was struggling to support herself with no partner or parents.
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Youth with disabilities face staggering loss of rights
Burkina Faso
Stripped of their most fundamental reproductive rights, women with disabilities are too often denied access to contraception, subject to forced abortion or sterilization, or denied information about their bodies and…
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The Very Important Girls Group: Investing in youth to invest in the future of Tanzania
Tanzania, United Republic of
Unlike 95 per cent of girls her age in Tanzania’s Shinyanga region, at 17, Rahuba Kenedy was enrolled in secondary school – and excelling academically. Then, she met a charming man and started dating him; however, in…
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Caring for the crisis-affected mothers of Quneitra, Syria
Syrian Arab Republic
As the explosions of an aerial attack on Syria’s Quneitra governorate rained down around her, teenaged Batool struggled through her first childbirth, to twins – without access to a health care facility or guidance from…
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Midwives deployed in Uganda to prevent ‘social calamity’
Uganda
A funeral changed Carolyn Akello’s life forever. “A young woman had died while giving birth at home,” she explained.
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Ending AIDS through integrated care: Combining sexual and reproductive health and HIV services in Malawi
Malawi
Five years ago, people living with HIV could only receive HIV services and antiretroviral therapy (ARV) at Mzenga Health Centre in Malawi’s Nkhata Bay district on Tuesdays. As a result, anyone seen entering the clinic…
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After childbirth trauma, Afghan women emerge from life in shadows
Afghanistan
Noorjahan lived with fistula for 49 years until her recent surgery. During those years she hid in one room, rarely leaving, sewing to make a living.
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Global leaders sign unprecedented commitment to address the needs of youth in crisis settings
“When we go to schools and shopping centres, we have to go to the bathroom in groups of three, so that gang members cannot abuse us. They can choose us to be their wives, and if we refuse, we could be killed, and our…
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Rebuilding Syria through innovation: Empowering Syrian youth to become entrepreneurs
Syrian Arab Republic
Despite the limited transportation, perpetual security threats and bombings ravaging her adopted city, Leen Darwish, a confident and optimistic 23-year-old woman, stayed steadfastly determined to continue her education…
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Meeting the needs of Ecuador’s women and girls in the aftermath of three earthquakes
Ecuador
After her home was destroyed on 16 April, by the first, and largest, of the three devastating earthquakes to hit Ecuador in the span of one month, Jeanette Reyes, age 29, couldn’t take long to mourn the destruction of…
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Supporting women in crisis: Syrian refugees find services and hope in Türkiye's safe spaces
Syrian Arab Republic, Türkiye
For over three years after conflict broke out in their provence, 28-year-old Fatma Fayiz Dawi and her family remained determined to stay in their home in Syria, despite the violence raging around them. But then one…
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