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Adolescent sexual and reproductive  health for out-of-school youth: lessons  from a pilot intervention with young  people with disabilities in Ethiopia

Adolescent sexual and reproductive health for out-of-school youth: lessons from a pilot intervention with young people with disabilities in Ethiopia

Sexual and reproductive health is integral to the well-being and rights of adolescents and young people. Ethiopia’s 2016 National Adolescent and Youth Health Strategy seeks to improve the quality and accessibility of adolescent and youth health services. Around 17.6% of young people in Ethiopia have a disability (World Health Organization 2011). Ethiopia is a signatory […]

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Reimagining the Future  of Global Health Initiatives

Reimagining the Future of Global Health Initiatives

The Future of Global Health Initiatives (FGHI) process is an ongoing multi-stakeholder exercise to explore how Global Health Initiatives (GHIs) can effectively accelerate country-led progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the broader Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 Agenda. The process, which started in 2022, aims to make recommendations on how GHIs can be more […]

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Abortion care guideline

Abortion care guideline

Sexual and reproductive health is fundamental to individuals, couples and families, and to the social and economic development of communities and nations. As provided in the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO), the organization’s objective is “the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health”, and to fulfil that objective, WHO’s […]

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The Tale of Two Girls (animation video)

The Tale of Two Girls (animation video)

animation video. A story of two girls.  

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Explaining the gender gap in reproductive  transition of Ethiopian youths: A decomposition  analysis

Explaining the gender gap in reproductive transition of Ethiopian youths: A decomposition analysis

The achievement of gender equality and ending all forms of disparity in the spheres of sexual and reproductive health are critical components of sustainable development goals. We endeavour to investigate the characteristics and/or structural sources of the gender gap in the reproductive transition among Ethiopian youths. The analysis was carried out using parts of data […]

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Exploring reproductive trajectories of youths of Oromia, Ethiopia: A life course approach

Exploring reproductive trajectories of youths of Oromia, Ethiopia: A life course approach

In the context of continuous cultural, social, and economic changes happening around the globe, the predictable patterns of the life course of the past observed over successive birth cohorts will not remain stable across generations. In this study, three reproductive role indicators—first sexual encounter, first marriage, and first birth–for three synthetic birth cohorts were used […]

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Financial Abuse

Financial Abuse

Financial abuse is a lesser-known, but critical component that abusers use to exert control over their victims. It can range from denying a spouse access to money to using scams or disingenuous motives to steal money from a senior. Financial abuse is very serious, but there are ways for victims to escape and recover from […]

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Maternal anaemia and the risk of postpartum haemorrhage:  a cohort analysis of data from the WOMAN-2 tria

Maternal anaemia and the risk of postpartum haemorrhage: a cohort analysis of data from the WOMAN-2 tria

Anaemia is strongly associated with postpartum haemorrhage and the risk of death or near miss. Attention should be given to the prevention and treatment of anaemia in women of reproductive age. Worldwide, more than half a billion women of reproductive age are anaemic. Each year, about 70 000 women who give birth die from postpartum […]

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Reliable cause-of-death data for better child health practice  in Ethiopia

Reliable cause-of-death data for better child health practice in Ethiopia

Reliable cause-of-mortality data are essential to inform newborn and child survival strategies in Ethiopia, where evidence to understand the causes of death in children is scarce.1 To address this scarcity of data, the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network is assessing specific causes of death for stillbirths, infants, and children by combining minimally […]

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