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In 2014 Barbados introduced a vaccine to prevent certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and reduce the risk of cervical cancer in young women. Despite the disproportionate burden of cervical cancer in the Caribbean, many Afro-Barbadians chose not to immunize their daughters.

Convening the communication and media (for) development, social and behavioural change community through a social networking and shared knowledge strategy. Focus on health, governance, HIV/AIDS, children, media development, conflict management, environment, rights, disasters, gender and other major Development issues.

This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage.

"Women, people of non-binary gender identities, and other diversity groups who face discrimination, tend to be excluded from news." This news content study, published by the Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI), seeks to shed new light on how Bangladeshi media are dealing with diversity and gender equity.

"Human-centered design and human-factors methods can assist during pilot stages to better align systems with users needs and again after scale-up to ensure that interventions are suitable for all user settings."

"The labour and delivery ward in low-resource settings creates the perfect storm for...difficult situations - a combination of a difficult work environment, stressed and demotivated providers with rigid expectations of how a woman in labour should behave, and patients whose needs are not being met..."

"The tools let us understand the health care provider better as a person.

"The results...suggest that demand-side barriers are deep-rooted in communities, especially in slum areas.

The CHOP pediatric dermatology director reviews recent breakthroughs in understanding complex pathophysiology of skin diseases.

If you’re male, someone has probably said it to you at some point in your life, and probably first when you were a child: “Man up,” “Shake it off,” “You’ll