Creating more opportunities for young women and girls to work and earn money is a possible solution to early marriages. Subsidising secondary education to keep poorer girls in school is another.
Kenya needs to develop effective cancer testing and treatment options.
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There is an urgent need for affordable cancer treatment services, lower drug costs, better equipped facilities, favourable national cancer policies and specialist doctors in Kenya.
Data shows gender disparities in networking.
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The low share of women revealed in this data is problematic for two reasons: a lack of diversity, and what it shows about women’s participation in the social network of informal collaboration.
An Egyptian anti-government activist kisses a riot police officer following clashes in Cairo, Egypt.
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Activists often face intransigent regimes and ruthless warlords. But women can use traditional insights into femininity and motherhood for political mobilisation and resistance.
Nelson Mandela and his comrade, anti-apartheid activist, Fatima Meer.
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Two South African “romance” struggle auto/biographies have focalised the anti-apartheid struggle through the lives of heroic women who were bound by love.
Gilles Pison, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)
There’s no reason why small families shouldn’t become the norm in Africa. But this will depend on improving education opportunities for women and improving birth control policies.
Kinshasa, 2016, capital of Republic of the Congo, and home to about 12 million people is one of the most populous cities in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Initiatives to help women suffering postnatal depression are needed and should be encouraged and integrated as part of routine antenatal and postnatal care.
Supporters of President Jacob Zuma in full cry outside the court during his 2006 rape trial.
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South Africa has changed since Jacob Zuma’s 2006 rape trial. In recent years, a new and assertive feminist movement has emerged and attacks on the president have become common cause.
National science academies must do more to draw women in.
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Academies simply don’t know how they’re doing when it comes to the representation of women compared to their counterparts within the science-policy environment.
According to a Global Adolescent Study boys are given more freedom and independence than girls.
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Do boys and girls from diverse cultural settings experience their transitions into adolescence? Their cultural differences don’t make a difference, but their genders do.
African universities can work towards decolonisation while championing the UN’s Agenda 2030.
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Women can often draw attention to dimensions of thinking that their male perspective may miss. But this will only work if they are in positions that allow them to lead and drive the research agenda.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s record on women’s rights has been mixed.
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The international media and her supporters continue to hoist Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf up as the matron of African women’s rights. But she does not deserve this title.
Antiretroviral drugs suppress the HIV virus and stop progression of the disease.
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The 17 Sustainable Development Goals have distinct functions but are interrelated and requires an integrated approach from both scientists and policymakers.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, HIV is still highly stigmatised.
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HIV remains a synonym for death in Kinshasa and many leave testing and treatment until it’s too late. It’s not common knowledge that an infected person can live a normal and healthy life.
South African learners receiving two meals, despite being from arguably poorer backgrounds, had statistically significantly lower stunting levels than children receiving only one meal.
Congolese women in the eastern town of Bunia. Even in conflict zones women are more likely to face violence in their homes than outside.
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Shocking new findings show that even in conflict-affected countries where soldiers and rebel fighters are a daily danger to women, their husbands and boyfriends are the bigger threat.