“Until I met the community health worker Penina, I did not know that one can have sex and not get pregnant,” said Wanjiru, a participant of the Tupange Family Planning program. Wanjiru is not different from many women living in the slums of Nairobi. Women in these communities believe that they have no control over whether or …
The former South African President, Nelson Mandela, once said: Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people. This notion of servant leadership is one that continues to tease Africa’s political elite today. Yesterday’s struggle for freedom has largely become a battle of details and varying degrees concerning accountability, transparency, …
News that Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed a law that will put parents in jail who fail to vaccinate their children has sent ripples through the immunization community. The law also requires that children must have up-to-date immunization cards to attend school. Uganda is not alone. Other governments have taken similar approaches against parents who reject vaccination. …
On June 12, Orlando, Fla., was the site of the deadliest homophobic attack in recent history. To call it by any other name would be to erase the reality and the identity of the people who died in Pulse nightclub that night. These people — young, old, gay, lesbian, straight, transgender and bi — were doing what …
In the last 40 years of mosquito-borne viruses such as malaria, yellow fever and dengue, scientists have introduced myriad interventions to control the population of mosquitoes. This is because controlling mosquitoes has a large effect on controlling the diseases since the mosquito is the vector that carries them. Novel mosquito-control approaches have included everything from …