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Nigeria needs to adopt gender specific strategies to financially include women smallholders in agriculture.
Ghana has ambitious policies on gender equity but is struggling to realise them.
In urban Namibia, performance poetry provides a safe space for women to share their experiences and challenge traditional ideas.
The long history of racist beauty standards alone cannot explain the ongoing global use of harmful skin lighteners.
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Women need to be included in all matters of health.
If patients received counselling from someone who spoke their language, they would have an opportunity to ask questions about their medical condition and understand it more clearly.
Nutrition policies offer the chance for us to think differently about men and women’s roles in society.
President Ramaphosa’s emphasis on fighting crime is well placed. Most categories of violent crimes have risen dramatically over the past eight years.
The state of emergency ultimately led to substantial legal changes that should better protect women and girls. But what really happened?
Students in Nigeria used home remedies to prevent pregnancy after sex and had doubts about the efficacy of medically approved pills.
Two interventions proved effective in reducing men’s perpetration, but not women’s experiences of violence.
Family structure and family support are protective factors against transactional sex among adolescents and young adults.
Criminalising this practice has not brought it to an end.
Bishop Purity Malinga is the first woman to be appointed Presiding Bishop in the Methodist Church of Southern African in over 200 years.
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Women have a crucial role to play in development initiatives.
When governments have evidence, they are better placed to develop health policies and programmes.
Most women feel they are unable to ask health professionals questions. And only half were consistently asked if they had questions.
All 36 states in Nigeria must adopt the Child Rights Act to safeguard their children.
The South African child support grant is progressive in its gender-neutrality, yet men make up only 2% of those who collect it.
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Communications Specialist, University of California, San Francisco
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Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa
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Network and Research Manager: ARUA – UKRI GCRF FSNet Africa, University of Pretoria
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Research scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Communications, Howard University
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Policy research officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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Doctoral Researcher: Faculty of Law, North-West University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Dornsife Endowed Professor of Global Health, Drexel University
