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"Infodemic insights are critical in understanding the information environment driving narratives during an emergency." - Dr. Sylvie Briand, Director, Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention, WHO

"Before, pregnant women will come to the facility, we will just check you and tell you to do this, buy this, buy this; but now, through the tools, we understand that early planning helps a lot to prevent you from difficulties while carry your baby." - provider, Grand Bassa

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

The scourge of gender-based violence in SA has been thrust into the spotlight through a number of productions at the National Arts Festival in Makhanda.

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..."