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Economic experts at a High Level Forum on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have called on the Federal Government to align policies and interventions with multi-dimensional poverty index.

"...insights into the perspectives of program managers, health workers, and community members which should inform countries as they consider integrating different health services over the life course." - Samantha Noor, JSI Experience indicates that, for a primary health care system to be people centred and responsive to population needs throughout

"...misinformation was the major driver of the very low HPV vaccination uptake by private-sector school girls whose caregivers participated in this study..." The viral spread of social media misinformation and disinformation regarding human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination safety has resulted in widespread vaccine hesitancy and suboptimal HPV vacci

"Evidence linking scaled mHealth messaging programmes to changes in health outcomes is limited...which may impede sustainability and further expansion."

"...findings will add to the existing knowledge base of interventions for girls in humanitarian settings, and strengthen the evidence-base for girl-centered programming more broadly" - Population Council Liberia has high levels of interpersonal and sexual violence (SV) continue to occur, particularly in areas that saw high conflict events and fatal

"Never stop learning. Change the world." This video is a "skill shot" or a short course for programme managers, donor organisations, and family planning (FP)/reproductive health (RH) practitioners in learning how social and behaviour change (SBC) interventions can guide and amplify the effectiveness of FP and RH programmes.

"You can help turn this into agenda into action!" There is global interest in better understanding and applying social-norms-shifting approaches to improve the reproductive health and wellbeing of adolescents and youth.

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.

Inclusive and rights-based climate action must be integrated into infrastructure development to support the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development ...

There is reason to celebrate as 70 per cent of Asia-Pacific countries showed improvement in opportunities for girls and young women to lead. Despite this progress, girls and women continue to be undervalued and underestimated throughout the region, even in the most developed countries.