Globally, death of women due to HIV/AIDS related causes during pregnancy or within 42 days after pregnancy was estimated to be 37,000. In Ethiopia, 42,900 pregnant women living with HIV gave birth…
Background: Integrating family planning (FP) services into human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) clinical care helps improve access to contraceptives for women living with HIV. However, high patient…
From 19 to 20 August 2019, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) hosted a two-day convening on Evidence-Based Prevention of Violence Against Women in Accra, Ghana. The space was created …
Equal access to economic opportunities by both women and men contributes to better development outcomes. Globally, women enterprises comprise about a third of all enterprises and contribute signi…
CONTEXT: Given that maternal morbidity and mortality from unsafe abortion persist, especially in Africa, there is a pressing need to understand the abortion decision-making process. However, littl…
This briefing highlights the opportunities that are available for women entrepreneurial leaders in a country has an imbalanced economic empowerment history with a discriminatory past. We discuss th…
We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary-school age children but did not benefit children who were older.We exploit t…
Cervical cancer is the most frequent cancer among women aged between 15 years and 44 years in Kenya, resulting in an estimated 4,802 women being diagnosed with cervical cancer and 2,451 dying from …
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 …
Previous studies, conducted mainly in Asian countries, have shown that women's empowerment is associated with contraceptive use, lower fertility, and longer birth intervals. Yet little is known a…