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How Joining a Youth Club Changed Oweki Rukia’s Life
Oweki Rukia, a 17-year-old from Arubaine Village, Busia District in the eastern part of Uganda, is poised for greater things after surviving drug addiction and avoiding teenage pregnancy. Girls in Oweki’s neighbourhood and in other communities across Uganda navigate a...
Inspiring Peers to Better and Healthier Lifestyles in the Community
Ronald Nsubuga, a Youth Champion and Peer Facilitator from Kakubansiri Village, Mityana District did not believe he had the potential to stand in front of his peers and talk to them about SRH issues. He had little confidence in himself. But all this changed when he...
Young people have the power!
Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana MEP meeting with youth representatives at the ICPD25 in Nairobi. Young people have the power to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. Amid the buzz of debates and performances at the International Conference on...
DSW Ramps Up Efforts to Engage in Policy Advocacy
In Ethiopia, the word 'advocacy' was taboo for many years. It was sugarcoated in alternative terminologies in an attempt to dodge the wrath of the Ethiopian government, which imposed a penal code against civil society organizations (CSOs) and NGOs in the past....
The Role of Men in Family Planning
“While growing up I never knew anything about family planning. I have so many children. It's something that I have known for just three years now, and I have come to accept it. It's important for the community since it enables one to determine the number of children...
Domestic investments for sexual and reproductive health and family planning key in Kenya’s quest to improve health outcomes for the youth
Sheila Chepkoech, 17, sat for her 2019 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education at Kapkeben Secondary School in Uasin Gishu, balancing between the exam schedule and motherhood. Sheila says she had no knowledge about how to avoid unintended pregnancy. “I never heard of...
The world needs science & science needs women.
Women and girls represent half of the world’s population and a half it's potential. But, to this day, less than 30 percent of researchers worldwide are women. Gender stereotypes and long-standing biases are steering girls and women away from science-related fields. In...
What Can We Do To Eliminate GVAW?
One in three African women experience gender-based violence against women (GVAW) in their lifetime. The findings of our State of African Women report indicate that the likelihood of experiencing violence by an intimate partner over one’s lifetime is 36.6% for African...
A Record $4 Billion Invested in R&D for Neglected Diseases.
We spoke to Anna Doubell from Policy Cures Research following the launch of the 12th G-FINDER report - the most comprehensive report to date on global funding for R&D on neglected diseases like malaria, TB, sleeping sickness and helminth infections. Could you...
We Want a World Without FGM
Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Stand with us if you agree that this harmful practice – a human rights violation with long-lasting effects on women and girls’ physical and mental health – must be eliminated. It is...