More than five million families across Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean spend over 40 per cent of their non-food household expenses on maternal health services every year, UNICEF said in a new analysis on maternal health. Nearly two-thirds of these households, or around three million, are in Asia while approximately 1.9 million...
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Raising Teen Voices Against Violence in Africa
Tell us about the organization; what was the main idea behind its launch? TAP Africa is a teens-focused initiative that aims to help raise a generation of youths, who are aware of the challenges affecting their communities and are eager to create sustainable solutions. Through our work, we engage teens in learning and addressing social...
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On GBV and Womens Health
Gender-based violence (GBV) has far reaching short and long term effects not only on the victims, but also their families and communities. Women are one of the most vulnerable groups when it comes to different types of violence with one in three women suffering from it. UN Women reports that about 35 percent of women...
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On reproductive health in Kenya
For a long time, the state of maternal health in Kenya has been a huge concern. This is because of the many maternal deaths reported every day, most of which are preventable. According to a report by Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS, 2014), fifteen women die every day due to pregnancy-related complications. According...
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Empowering the girl child through tech
Today an estimated 122 million youth are illiterate globally, out of which 60.7 percent are young women according to a UNESCO report. More than 1.3 billion people live in abject poverty and then there is also the current devastating refugee situation the world over from Syria to Burma, among the numerous issues afflicting mankind. All...
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Women into STEM: Education & Practice
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has witnessed positive growth over the past one decade, essentially fuelled by the governments willingness to migrate from energy-based economies to knowledge-based ones. It is indeed not untrue to claim that long-term sustainability as well as societal welfare can only be possible by incorporating womens participation in...