Gender equality

Articles related to gender-related barriers and gender equality.

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Trans and gender-diverse people face higher risk of some cancers, and a higher risk of those cancers being missed

31 Mar 2023

5 min read

Transgender pride makeup. Credit: Kyle on Unsplash

Trans people are overlooked by immunisation programmes. That needs to change

31 Mar 2023

6 min read

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Kenya has seen an overall improvement in maternal and newborn health outcomes. Credit: Belen B Massieu/Shutterstock

Kenya introduced free maternal health services a decade ago - it’s been a success, saving lives

22 Mar 2023

5 min read

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Young girls on their way to school in rural Bhutan.

Beyond cervical cancer: How Bhutan is winning the war against HPV

16 Mar 2023

11 min read

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“The battle against cancer is won before the hospital, through prevention”: Fighting cervical cancer in Burkina Faso

8 Mar 2023

5 min read

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How to succeed as a woman in science

8 Mar 2023

5 min read

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Q&A: Rolling out HPV vaccine in Burkina Faso

7 Mar 2023

5 min read

HPV Gender equality Videos

Q&A: Cervical cancer in the Republic of Guinea

6 Mar 2023

2 min read

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Lesotho male mobilisers pose for a picture along with Mantsopa Institute staff at the refresher course in January 2023. Credit: Mosoeu Maliehe

Basotho men buck stereotypes to champion routine childhood immunisation

21 Feb 2023

5 min read

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Children wait to be vaccinated during house-to-house visits for a national polio vaccination campaign in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Tuesday 06 June 2022. Credit: ©WHO/ Ismail Taxta

“Someone has to do this. And it’s us, here, now”

15 Feb 2023

6 min read

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Female doctors staff an "email clinic" serving women in remote areas of Pakistan. Credit: Sehat Kahani

Sehat Kahani is showing Pakistan that digital health services can change lives – for both patients and doctors

5 Jan 2023

5 min read

COVID-19 Innovation Gender equality

Maternal care in Hargeisa, Somalia. Despite progress on women’s health and rights in the last 50 years, stark inequalities remain in access to contraceptives and health services to support safe pregnancy and birth, a special report says. Credit: Sarah Bones/CARE. (CC BY 2.0).

Drugs companies must address ‘chronic neglect’ of women

15 Dec 2022

6 min read

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