Pelvic inflammatory disease is an infection of a woman’s reproductive organs. Photo; HEALTHLINE
Country policymakers, donors, and global health organisations, on Monday, on the sidelines of the Generation Equality Forum – a major global inflection point for gender equality – announced a new initiative to accelerate progress on ensuring access to a comprehensive range of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) products.
Despite significant improvements in the last decade, essential SRH health tools remain out of reach for millions of people worldwide, and health system disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic threaten to widen the gap. Shaping Equitable Market Access for Reproductive Health, known as SEMA Reproductive Health – will support countries in overcoming some of the biggest barriers in SRH markets to ensure people everywhere can access the products they want and need to control their health and futures. Donors have committed over USD$50 million to SEMA to date, and th
There are so many good causes in the world it is often difficult to know where aid money should go. As leaders line up to attend the G7 summit in Cornwall, the most effective destinations for aid money have become clearer – a global vaccination programme and improving girls’ education. This is especially true in sub-Saharan Africa, where so much can go wrong over the next 10 years – a population explosion, massive biodiversity loss,.
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Lady Sugg, a former Foreign Office minister, has challenged her onetime boss Dominic Raab to admit he is cutting the UK aid budget for girlsâ education by more than 40% as the foreign secretary also suggested UK bilateral aid to Africa would be reduced to a third of what it was two years ago.
She also claimed the government was planning to close its flagship Womenâs Integrated Sexual Health programme and impose cuts of about 70-80% to spending on the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition.
The news came on the day the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, spoke to the Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, about a girlsâ education fundraising summit they are jointly hosting in July.