Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is recognised as an important public health and social problem, with far reaching consequences for women’s physical and emotional health and social wel…
The South African National Department of Health has rapidly extended free public- sector antiretroviral treatment for people living with HIV from 2007. Approximately 6 million people are living w…
Maternal mortality issues have become a major cause for concern especially in developing counties as they struggle to attain the Sustainable Development Goals 3.1 and 3.2. Tradi tional Birth Attend…
Many women living with HIV experience gendered power inequalities, particularly in their intimate relationships, that prevent them from achieving optimal sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and ex…
Burundi is similar to Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya in that same sex sexuality and sex work are criminalized under the Penal Code of 2009. This report is mapping the growth of the LBGT and sex worker…
Curious Minds, Ghana together with the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) hosted a pre-conference session for the 7th Africa Conference on sexual Health and rights (ACSHR 2016) Accra, Ghana. I…
Historically, women have always been subjugated and oppressed by men in most cultures in Nigeria. This situation is due to the inequality in gender relations between men and women. Rape has alway…
Animal milk is an important contributor to women’s dietary diversity, especially among pastoral communities where access to diverse diets is limited. While there have been numerous large-scale …