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Women wait for food at a camp for people displaced in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai.

In Climate Fight, Focus on Women and Girls

by Tjedu Moyo

Zimbabwe's Lunia Centre is tackling climate change's spillover effects on women and girls

Gender
Changing Woman Initiative board and staff members, wearing traditional clothing from their respective tribes, connect with open hands to symbolize their acceptance of prayers and blessings.

Empowering Native Mothers Through Midwifery

A nurse-midwife from the Navajo Nation on why there's now enough data to advance Indigenous birthing policy

Collette Oliver-Soleil, health center manager at Planned Parenthood, poses for a picture.
Gender

U.S. Supreme Court Weighs Emergency Abortion Care

by Michele Heisler, Payal Shah, Kasra Zarei

In Idaho v. United States, the stakes are high for health workers, pregnant patients, and abortion care

Access to Abortion Has Increased Globally
Gender

Post-Roe Era Tests Abortion Laws Worldwide

As abortion comes under fire in the United States, some countries have taken a stance toward expanding access

Girls play a clapping game during a weekly education session women’s safety.
Gender

Menstrual Health Advocacy in Cameroon

by Abdullahi Jimoh

Young women are crusading to expand access to menstrual health care and education in Cameroon

A Gambian woman puts her identity card back into her purse while exiting a polling station, in Serekunda, Gambia, on September 22, 2006.
Gender

Gambia Moves to Overturn Ban on Female Genital Cutting

by Mariel Ferragamo

The impending collapse of Gambia's ban on the practice casts a shadow over years of hard-fought efforts across Africa

A woman holds signs as she attends a rally to commemorate International Women's Day at Union Square Park.
Gender

Count Her In: The Road to Women's Economic Empowerment

by Janani Shanthosh, Emma Feeny

Targeting gender-based violence and promoting economic empowerment should be global concerns

A mother kisses her child as she walks past graffiti in Mumbai March 27, 2014.
Gender

Breaking Barriers, Building Leaders

by Sai Mandlik, Tanya Dikshit

Youth-driven change in Jharkhand’s health system

Min Min rock climbing in a top-rope set up in Yangshuo, China. 2022. Photo courtesy of Min Min.
Gender

Risk, Pregnancy, and Extreme Sports

by Chen Chen

Athletes and experts weigh in

A woman wears a face mask and has the words "Freedom" written in blue paint on her forehead in Arabic. She takes part in a protest following the death of Mahsa Amini, near the Iranian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, October 4, 2022.
Gender

The Toll of Violence on Women and Youth in Iran

by Behnaz Darban, Natasha Poulopoulos

A "pervasive trauma is seeping through Iran," affecting the mental health of women and children

Naveed Ahmed, a doctor, gives medical assistance to Hameeda, who is suffering from malaria, at Sayed Abdullah Shah Institute of Medical Sciences in Sehwan, Pakistan, on September 29, 2022.
Governance

COVID-19 Fueled Record-Breaking Investments in Global Health

by Kevin O’Rourke, Angela E. Micah, Joseph L. Dieleman

Examining opportunities and challenges related to development spending

Rukia Kondogoza, a cervical cancer patient, shares a bed in a female ward of a cancer institute in the capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on November 11, 2009.
Gender

The Path to Vaccinating the World Against HPV

by Kelly Compton, Annie Chan

Fewer required doses, more affordable vaccines

An abortion rights activist gestures during a demonstration in Mexico City.
Gender

The Complexity of Religion and Abortion in Mexico City

by Alejandra Martinez

Reconciling faith with reproductive decisions

An woman walks along a street in Tehran, Iran, on May 26, 2021. Behind her stretches a wall with thick colorful horizontal stripes in shadess of blue and aqua.
Gender

Women and Stroke in Iran

by Athena Sharifi-Razavi

Stroke-prevention efforts fail to meet low-income women’s needs