The phrase "women’s health" slips off the tongues of clinicians, public health experts, community advocates and legislators with ease, but the ideological battles of the past three decades have clouded this once-useful term. Reproductive health services and access to family planning promote health and combat poverty, but they do not represent the sum of women’s …
In 2008 a colleague and l were in Uganda’s capital Kampala to attend an awareness session on domestic violence in minority communities. The organizers, a lesbian group, were partly funded by our organization, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), which is a pan-African grant making foundation based in my home country, Ghana. After a few …
Whatever you put your heart and mind on, you can achieve and that poverty cannot be fought without the involvement of the poor. On this edition of unsung heroes, Resian Lebai tells the story of Kennedy Odede the 28-year-old founder of a community based organization that helps to uplift the poor.