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Gender

According to the United Nations, gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, affecting access to quality health care, exposure to health risks, and the outcomes of disease and disability—for children and parents alike. Improvements in health, from lower child mortality to greater access to reproductive care, can alter the power to access gender-related rights and freedoms. This section examines the new ways in which health and gender intersect and reinforce each other

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Bodies into Battlefields: Gender-Based Violence in Sudan

Amid Sudan's deadly war, women face a triple threat of death, displacement, and gender-based assault

Global Fertility Rate Continues To Fall: How Governments Could Prepare

The global fertility rate will decline from now through 2100, according to new projections in The Lancet

Gender

A Kansas Physician on Post-Roe Abortion Care

An OB-GYN explains the realities of abortion care after Dobbs and how providers are handling the patient overflows

Gender

India Is Unprepared for a PCOS Crisis

Further research and evidence-based guidelines could help reconcile the increasingly common endocrine disorder

Gender

Extreme Heat Taxes Africa's Women and Reproduction

Many women in Africa have little or no protection against extreme heat events in their day-to-day lives

Gender

A Nightmare for Pregnant Women in Gaza

An on-the-scene health worker explains how Gaza could lose a generation if pregnant women remain at risk

Gender

Olympics Spotlight Gender-Informed Injury Prevention

Some types of injuries are more common among young women athletes

Gender

Addressing Mississippi's Maternal Health-Care Shortage

State regulations and payment systems have prevented the growth of freestanding birth centers

Gender

Empowering Native Mothers Through Midwifery

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

Gender

U.S. Supreme Court Weighs Emergency Abortion Care

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

Gender

Zimbabwe's Review of Restrictive Abortion Laws

Activists are calling for a review of a decades-old abortion law to increase protections for women and girls

Gender

Confronting Big Alcohol's Sponsorship of Pride Parades

This Pride season, it is essential to begin considering the health impacts of Big Alcohol's sponsorship of parades

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