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Jill, Women Deliver
By: Jill Sheffield, President of Women Deliver and Elisabeth van der Steenhoven, Director of WO=MEN, a network of organizations promoting gender equality in the Netherlands
In just a few weeks, th...
Saba
By: Saba Ismail, one of the Women Deliver 100 Young Leaders and program manager of the “Sahailee Hotline”
In Pakistan, talking about sexual and reproductive health, sexuality and contraception...
BRIDGET
By: BridgetAkudo Nwagbara, Chair of the Youth Health Workers Advocates, Nigeria – MNCH
Social media has revolutionized the way people across the globe interact with one another. At the recent, th...
Tsiaro
By: Hasinihaja Tsiaro Barijaona Raharison, one of the Women Deliver 100 Young Leaders and an Oxfam Action Partner
In Madagascar, there remains a lack of information about contraception. Myths and m...
Rachel
By: Rachel Cernansky, blogger at Treehugger.com and winner of the Women Bloggers Deliver contest; excerpted from the original post at Treehugger.com
The connection between increased access to fami...
Yunuén
¿Cuál es la diferencia del aprendizaje sobre métodos anticonceptivos y el acceso a ellos entre hombres y mujeres jóvenes? ¿Por qué?
Por: Yunuén Flores, Directora del Programa de Géneroy un...
Mariko
By: Mariko Rasmussen, public health student at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in Reproductive and Family Health.
They say kids in Los Angeles grow up fast. Sitting across from ...
plural, Alliance of civilizations
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAoC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are organizing a youth produced video festival called Plural+ addressing the challenges of d...
BRIDGET
By: BridgetAkudo Nwagbara, Chair of the Youth Health Workers Advocates, Nigeria - MNCH
“I had a dream to be the best that I can at anything I want to be….I couldn’t because I became a mother ...
Ahmed
Although I have written about HIV/AIDS in Egypt before, and despite the general attitude of avoiding this heavy subject, there's always a need to address it and discuss the situation of HIV/AIDS in th...
Dalia
By: Dalia Al-Eryani, one of the Women Deliver 100 Young Leaders
A little over a year ago, I was working to raise awareness regarding the safe age of marriage in a small rural village in the mountai...
Janna, Women Deliver
By: Janna Oberdorf, Director of Communications and Outreach at Women Deliver
Happy World Contraception Day! If you haven’t heard of World Contraception Day, welcome, get excited, and tune in. The...
Knowledge for
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media is the only research-based organization working within the media and entertainment industry to engage, educate, and influence the need for gender balance,...
Mischa, UNFPA
Working with UNFPA during the past year, I recall that we have had many discussions about how youth organizations can effectively and economically do advocacy at international conferences. The big que...
Knowledge for
Bloggers, media, NGOs, celebrities, and global thought leaders from a variety of public health and human rights spectrums converged this week on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for the Social Good Su...
Janna, Women Deliver
By Janna Oberdorf, Director of Communications and Outreach at Women Deliver
Young people and contraception can be a tricky topic – for some reason, the idea that young people should have power ov...
Julie
Northern Haiti
August 2011
11-month old Pierre Wisny is painfully thin, with ribs showing and his skin practically hanging off him. He weighs just 11 pounds (five kilograms).
When the circumfer...
Anusha, United Nations
A recent article, “All Grown Up with HIV” in POZ magazine written by Associate Editor, Crisitina Gonzalez, chronicles the stories of four young people living with HIV. The youth range from ages 17...
Knowledge for
In honor of World Humanitarian Day, the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon states, “There is never a year without humanitarian crises. And wherever there are people in need, there a...
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