Global Health is Failing Women and Girls

Global investments in women and girls have stalled, leaving many underserved

Guajajara women wear protective masks to prevent the spread of COVID at a community school in the village of Morro Branco in Maranhão, a state in northeastern Brazil on October 4, 2020. Photo by Adriano Machado with REUTERS

Reproductive Rights Are at a Crossroads in a COVID-Weary World

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Some countries have improved access and care, while others have floundered

A protester raises a #MeToo sign during a rally against harassment at Shinjuku shopping and amusement district in Tokyo, Japan on April 28, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato

#TimesUp on Violence and Sexual Harassment Against Women in Health Professions

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This week marks the first international treaty to end workplace harassment

Periods Don't Stop For Conflict

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Addressing women's health in Ukraine and other conflict zones

Periods Don't Stop For Conflict

A Look at Women's Protests

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A snapshot of women-led protests around the world

A Look at Women's Protests

The U.S. Government's Role in Addressing Global Women's Health

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What will happen to women and girls in low- and middle-income countries in the future as aid stalls and progress slows?

Young girls holding U.S. and Kenyan flags wait to greet U.S. Ambassador Robert Godec at a President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) project for girls' empowerment in Nairobi on Mar 10, 2018. The photo shows four girls from the stomach down holding flags. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

How to Save the Lives of Women and Girls in Africa

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African governments must follow through on their lofty declarations and allocate national budgets to save women's lives

Women wait in line during a UNICEF supported mobile health clinic in the village of Rubkuai in Unity State, South Sudan on February 16, 2017. Picture shows five women in a line with more lined up on the other side of them. The three women in the middle are standing very close, and the third has her arms around the shoulders of the second, suggesting they all know each other. This photo is moving in its simple, straightforward humanity. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola

Human Development is the Best Contraceptive—Why India Does Not Need a Two-Child Norm

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Key to harnessing potential of India is enhancing capabilities of young people and expanding freedoms of girls and women

A mother kisses her child as she walks past graffiti in Mumbai on March 27, 2014. The image is striking with a large, artistic image behind a woman who is walking and holding a child. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

Gender and the Coronavirus Outbreak

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Gender inequities make outbreaks worse, so why not integrate gender analysis into the response now to help save lives?

Immigration officers wearing protective awaiting Thai nationals evacuated from Wuhan, China—the center of the coronavirus epidemic, at the U-Tapao airport in Rayong province, Thailand on Feb 4, 2020. REUTERS/Royal Thai Navy Handout.

Healthy Birth—and Then What?

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Women in sub-Saharan Africa who give birth in health care facilities may not always receive high quality postpartum care

A woman holds her newborn in a nursery at the Juba Teaching Hospital in South Sudan on Apr 3, 2013, which had one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates then at 2,054 per 100,000 live births. Photo shows a woman looking adoringly on her baby, who rests in her lap. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu

Baby in a Bomb Shelter

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Oscar nominated documentary "For Sama" gives powerful if gruesome glimpse of what it's like to raise a kid in a war zone

A boy dives into a crater filled with water in Aleppo's al-Shaar district on July 10, 2014. Activists said the crater was caused by barrel bombs dropped by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. The photo shows a boy leaping in mid-air into a water-filled hole. The water is muddy brown, and two other boys can be seen swimming in the hole with their heads bobbing out. Surrounding them is rubble. This is a powerful image. REUTERS/Hosam Katan

The United States Has Mommy Issues

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The factors behind rising U.S. maternal mortality

A woman receives a prenatal exam at the Maternity Outreach Mobile in Phoenix, Arizona. The picture shows a woman lying back on a hospital-type bed with her shirt pulled up exposing her late-term belly. The hands of a health care provider stretch a tape measure vertically across her belly.

It's a Man's Man's Man's World

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"But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing, without a woman or a girl." - James Brown

A man pushes a cart to transport women in Najaf, Iraq.

In Kansas, Health Care Is Failing Pregnant Women Who Are Refugees

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"Appointments were fraught with the silence of uncomfortable providers"

A newborn Congolese baby yawns inside the maternity ward at the Kapangu maternity health centre in Kaniki-Kapangu, in Kasai Oriental Province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya