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From Commitment to Delivery: African Ministers Chart a Path to Fund the Health of Women and Children
Every year, 260,000 women die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. To put that number in perspective, it is the equivalent of filling a World Cup stadium to capacity and losing every person inside it, seven times over. Alongside them, nearly 5 million children die before their fifth birthday, and 1.9 million more are…
What we can learn from CAAP country advocates about financing women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health
The 7th CAAP Peer Learning Exchange brought CAAP coordinating partners from ten sub-Saharan African countries together to compare notes on domestic reolescents’ health. What stood out was the depth and specificity country partners brought from their own experience, well beyond a set of prepared updates
Takeaways from AP-KFF investigation into allegations of medical neglect by detainees in ICE custody
An investigation by KFF Health News and The Associated Press has found that hundreds of detainees across at least 33 states allege immigration detention facilities are failing to provide adequate medical care
A study in the journal Science found that people who work remotely had more depression, anxiety and visits to mental health professionals than those who work in jobs that can’t be done remotely. Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle