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  • Partners in Birth: How collaboration is saving mothers in Ghana

    The Mamacare Foundation has trained over 860 traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in hygiene, safe delivery practices, danger-sign recognition, and timely referral systems over the past decade to improve maternal care in the region. The program pairs each TBA with a supervising midwife, creating a collaborative bridge between traditional and modern maternal care. The training has increased referrals from TBAs to clinics by 40%, and district hospitals report fewer emergency cases arriving in critical condition since the Foundation has formed.

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  • Inside Rwanda's push to eliminate cervical cancer ahead of WHO targets

    Rwanda has implemented a comprehensive, community-driven cervical cancer prevention program combining door-to-door screening campaigns, free HPV vaccination, and health insurance reforms to cover cancer treatment. Since the initiaives launched, six districts have achieved the World Health Organization’s elimination targets, putting Rwanda on track to become the first African country to eliminate cervical cancer by 2027.

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  • Enugu's Type 2 Primary Healthcare Centers Bring Quality Healthcare Closer to Communities

    Enugu State is addressing healthcare access gaps and high maternal mortality by establishing 260 Type 2 Primary Healthcare Centers, with 100 already completed. These fully-equipped facilities provide 24-hour care with essential medications and reliable utilities. As part of the initiative, the Centers are also recruiting 2,200 healthcare workers, training over 1,800 staff members in safe delivery and contraceptive methods, introducing AI-assisted ultrasound screening and implementing affordable health insurance. Since opening in March 2025, one center alone has served over 690 people.

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  • Local Volunteers Lead the Way in Closing Taraba's Maternal Healthcare Gap

    Women volunteers with PHC Kara are going into the community to share important healthcare information with pregnant women, in an effort to improve maternal and infant mortality rates and health outcomes. The group has also received support and recognition from UNICEF’S Mama2Mama healthcare initiative and Rural Health Mission Nigeria, providing them with clean birth kits and other supplies to distribute to women.

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  • Women are leading menstrual dialogue in Nepal – and in the process, challenging the status quo

    be artsy's Rato Baltin project uses culturally relevant education, menstrual kit distribution, and engages religious leaders to challenge discriminatory practices against those who menstruate. Since launching in 2017, the group has reached 80,000 people and distributed over 5,500 menstrual cups, while simultaneously helping shift perspectives around menstruating.

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  • La dignidad cruzó muros: la historia de Keren y las mujeres que abrieron paso a la menstruación libre en la prisión de Tlaxcala

    En el Centro de Reinserción Social Femenil, un programa de intervención con muchas alianzas transformó la experiencia menstrual de mujeres privadas de la libertad: Voluntarias educadoras menstruales permitieron brindar conocimientos técnicos, perspectivas de género, y nuevos suministros para que las mujeres privadas de la libertad y las custodias que protegen su seguridad tuvieran mayor sensibilidad cuando se habla de gestión menstrual.

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  • Lo que quedó del plan que redujo los embarazos adolescentes al 50% y fue desmantelado por el gobierno de Milei

    El Plan ENIA fue una estrategia intersectorial impulsada por el Estado argentino entre 2017 y 2024 para reducir el embarazo no intencional en la adolescencia a través de educación sexual integral, distribución gratuita de métodos anticonceptivos y asesorías de salud en escuelas, logrando como principal impacto una reducción del 50% en los embarazos adolescentes en las zonas donde fue implementado. Tras el cambio de gestión y el recorte de fondos, el plan fue interrumpido, forzando adaptaciones locales y fallas en la provisión.

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  • Las voces que faltan

    Lideresas indígenas—desde sus comunidades: los pueblos Lenca, Kakawira y Nahua-Pipil—decidieron organizarse y crear el Observatorio Nacional Sijsihuat Mejmetzaly, donde están aprendiendo a levantar datos desde sus propias realidades. Juntos, por la primera vez, han comenzado a nombrar las múltiples violencias que atraviesan a las mujeres indígenas en El Salvador.

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  • Abiye: Ondo's Community-Based Model for Maternal and Child Care Encounters Setbacks

    The Abiye Project registered over 20,000 pregnant women using a community-based model to ensure they receive proper healthcare. The program connected women with trained health rangers who served as liaisons with traditional birth attendants (TBAs). When TBAs’ resistance stalled the program, the government introduced financial incentives, paying them for each patient referral, leading to more hospital births and a reduced child and maternal mortality rate.

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  • The Screenings Saving Lives in Rural Guatemala

    The Nursing Heart mobile cervical cancer screening clinic uses visual inspection with an acetic acid (VIA) screening method to make cancer screening simpler and more affordable. Since 2011, the clinic has performed more than 4,000 mobile cancer screenings in more than 40 rural Guatemalan communities.

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