Opinion - Investing in the health of women, children, and adolescents yields significant economic returns: increased productivity, reduced healthcare costs, and a more resilient future workforce. Yet, ...

Portia Dzifa Dzilah, a teacher at Pakro Anglican Basic School in the Eastern Region, has been named the Sub-Saharan Africa ...

More than a quarter of a million women around the world died during their pregnancy or within six weeks of giving birth in ...

Experts assessed the potential impacts on HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention efforts in sub-Saharan Africa if the ... and prevent sexual violence against girls. The authors call for a strategic ...

For girls in low-income countries, this means missing school for several days each month, falling behind, and ultimately dropping out. In places like Sub-Saharan Africa, girls miss up to 20 per ...

The digital divide is leaving millions of girls and women behind in an increasingly technology-driven world. In sub-Saharan Africa, for every 100 men with spreadsheet skills, only 40–44 women have the ...

The dividend in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the Sahel and Central Africa, will take longer to achieve. Accelerating the demographic transition will require deliberate policy choices: investing ...

It currently supports over 20 million people with HIV prevention and treatment services, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa ... to combat violence against girls and protect vulnerable children.

Currently, seven in 10 children in Sub-Saharan Africa are not benefiting from pre-primary ... with particular attention to adolescent girls and women who may face gender-specific barriers. Improve the ...

However, confronting high rates of poverty and multiple conflicts, the sub-Saharan Africa region still ... a 15-year-old girl faces a one in 51 risk of dying from a maternal cause at some point ...

“She’s a very jovial little girl, but she’s been very miserable the past few ... In the early days of the epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, the virus fanned out along trucking routes as long-haul ...