This debate article—authored by members of IAWG and the Self-Care Trailblazer Group—invites members of the global health community to look at potential avenues for mainstreaming self-care in service delivery strategies in humanitarian settings.
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This article was published in Kenya's Star Newspaper and linked to International Day of the Women. It celebrates the accomplishment of Kenya's Ministry of Health, passing their Menstrual Hygiene Management Policy and the Kenya Bureau of Standards passing the new reusable sanitary towel standard (KS 2925:2020).
On behalf of the Respectful Maternity Care Council, we are pleased to announce the Respectful Maternity Care Charter: Universal Rights of Women and Newborns is available in Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Russian.
The Youth Alliance for Reproductive Health, Democratic Republic of Congo is collective of Congolese youth dedicated to educating their peers about sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Established in December 2019 and based in Goma, YARH DRC primarily partners with schools to provide peer-to-peer SRH education. Community panels, workshops, and awareness-raising events ground YARH DRC’s work and complement their virtual programming offerings, which were adapted to meet youth’s SRH education needs during COVID-19 lockdowns.
The Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies (GCHS), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Science Practice are conducting this study on behalf of Elrha to explore sexual and reproductive health (SRH) innovations in humanitarian settings. As part of the research, they are interested in a wide array of innovations including, but not limited to, new or significant adaptations to products, technologies, services, delivery methods, processes, approaches or policies that address important problems in humanitarian SRH.
This study uses routine health information system data to examine neonatal mortality burden and trends in UNHCR refugee camps between 2006 and 2017.