BY: Dr. Maymunah Kadiri – Even before the pandemic, one in five African teenagers had thought about suicide, according to a study released last year. And this was the highest such prevalence in the world. A separate study from 2019 reported that 12 % – one in ten – Nigerian adolescent s had attempted to …
BY: Andrés Constantin: One casualty of Venezuela’s ongoing humanitarian crisis has been women’s access to contraception. Any meaningful effort to work through the crisis smartly and seriously must start with family planning investments, which will allow Venezuelans to lift themselves out of poverty, contribute to the entire economy’s growth, and protect human rights. Over the …
BY: Maji Hailemariam – In February, I decided to leave my town of Flint, Mich., and travel to my home country of Ethiopia to work on a potential mental health research partnership for a few months — and visit my family, whom I hadn’t seen since before the start of the pandemic. Cases seemed very …
BY: Habtamu Yesigat – When I met a farmer – Takele – in northern Ethiopia, it was a season of rain that was too little and too late. Together with a wrong decision about when and what to plant, he and his family had been ruined. After the crop failure on his three fragments of …
BY: Mariana Prandini Assis – I received Lidia’s* message on a late night. [*Her name has been changed to protect her privacy.] “Hi, I am the woman from the news. Can we talk?,” it read. I did not need further explanation. Lidia’s story had been all over Brazilian news and social media websites. Accused of …