The COVID-19 pandemic has led to school closures and disruptions affecting 1.3 billion children worldwide.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to school closures and disruptions affecting 1.3 billion children worldwide. Education systems are struggling to provide adequate continuous education through a meaningful transition to distance learning.
In Niger, 76.3% of girls marry before the age of 18 and 57% have already started their reproductive life.
Digital health technologies have the potential to provide greater access to better quality and more affordable care, but governing the digital personal data generated by and required to support many digital health innovations is a critical challen
The overall objective of this project is to promote the uptake of research findings from the cohort of projects “Combatting sexual and gender-based violence and improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights in West Africa”.
The sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescents and young adults, particularly of sexual minority groups, are poorly understood and often under threat because of discrimination.
This project aims to empower adolescents to reduce the extent of child marriage in Niger. This includes research to understand the norms and practices for child marriage and their links to adolescent reproductive health and related rights.
In countries particularly affected by the Syrian refugee crisis, such as Jordan and Lebanon, there is a growing unmet need for contraceptives, especially among young women.
There is a significant gap in data concerning the patterns and drivers of transactional sex, sexual exploitation, and abuse in transactional sex and their implications on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of refugees.
Global health challenges in the Middle East and North Africa and across the Global South become even more complex in contexts of fragility. Healthcare providers are a cornerstone of the response to these challenges.