Nairobi 3 May 2022. The United Nations University (UNU) has announced the appointment of Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, Ph.D., the Executive […]
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Prioritize country-led efforts to vaccinate the most vulnerable, build resilient health systems DURHAM, April 27, 2022— Eleven leading health organizations […]
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By Florence Sipalla The transition of a person from being a primary caregiver, a patriarch or matriarch, and an influential […]
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On 23 February 2022, the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) convened a joint national dissemination workshop for three […]
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The Spotlight Initiative Africa Regional Programme has trained professionals from academia, civil society organizations and government in the art and […]
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Nairobi, 30 March 2022– The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) has been recognized as a high performer in […]
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This synthesis note summarizes the process taken in developing the National Sanitation Management Policy (NSMP) in Kenya. It provides a […]
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In this special edition, we kick off our APHRC@20 celebrations by reflecting on our early beginnings at the Population Council […]
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Domestication of the Maputo Protocol in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC):Lessons to advance access to safe abortion on the African continent […]
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Successful advocacy efforts by the Coalition de Lutte contre les Grossesses non Désirées (CGND), other civil society actors and NGOs, champions in the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and others led to the gazetting of the Maputo Protocol in 2018, an important step in the continuum of policy changes needed to expand access to safe abortion. Understanding the approach and strategies used by the CGND and others would be useful for neighbouring countries looking to achieve the same policy goal as well as for researchers and advocates seeking to facilitate policy change. […]
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Commission on Health Determinants, Data, and Decision-making releases a report detailing principles and actionable recommendations to leverage data on the […]
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In this issue, we tackle educational trends, including the unmet demand for schooling in informal-urban areas and the struggles teen […]
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In this letter, we urgently call on our African political and research leaders to take greater responsibility to streamline research […]
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The EU-Africa PerMed project was launched on March 4, 2021. The project is funded under Horizon 2020, the European framework […]
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Addressing global health challenges is only possible by building and strengthening international, intercontinental, and national scientific cooperation between scientists, decision/policymakers, […]
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One of the obstacles to domesticating and operationalising continental commitments that promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) […]
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(March 3, 2021, Nairobi and New York) The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and the Guttmacher Institute are […]
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In this issue, we highlight our partnership with AidData to improve policy impact, the need for gender data in the fight against COVID-19, the increased unpaid care work burden on women during the pandemic, and what it took to survive 2020 as an institution. Happy reading! […]
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Early this year, before the Covid-19 pandemic hit Africa, the Immunization Advocacy Initiative (IAI) had implemented several high-level capacity training […]
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