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Momentum Health Puts Women’s Preventative Care In The Spotlight This Women’s Month

As South Africa celebrates Women’s Month this August, Momentum Health is urging women to prioritise their health and wellbeing through preventative care. With rising rates of chronic illness and mental health strain, the call to action is clear: women must be supported to take charge of their health. According to the 2023/24 Annual Report by […]

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Gates Foundation Investments in Women’s Health Innovations – 2025-2030

OverviewOver the next two decades, the Gates Foundation will work together with its partners to make as much progress as possible towards three primary goals: This focus builds on the extraordinary global progress in health and development between 2000 and 2025—a period when child deaths were more than halved, deaths from deadly infectious diseases were […]

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Gates Foundation Announces Catalytic Funding to Spark New Era of Women-Centered Research and Innovation

Investments Through 2030 to Catalyze Innovation in Maternal, Menstrual, Gynecological, and Sexual Health for Women Globally The Gates Foundation today announced a $2.5 billion commitment through 2030 to accelerate research and development (R&D) focused exclusively on women’s health. It will support the advancement of more than 40 innovations in five critical, chronically underfunded areas—particularly those […]

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New Global Alliance for Women’s Health Could Help Boost Global Economy by $1 Trillion Annually by 2040

A new World Economic Forum report released today shows that closing the women’s health gap would allow more women to live healthier, higher-quality lives, and provide an unprecedented boost to the global economy. Closing the Women’s Health Gap: A $1 Trillion Opportunity to Improve Lives and Economies, developed in collaboration with the McKinsey Health Institute, […]

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Smart Tech Will Only Work for Women When the Fundamentals for Its Uptake Are in Place

Clearly, poor rural women would benefit the most from new ways of working on the land. Therefore, technology and innovation must benefit women and men equally for it to work well for society. ...

Hunger and Food Insecurity Plague the Lives of Millions in Africa

Africa is rising. But at the same time, Africa is the continent with the largest number of people, (390 million) living in extreme poverty. The UN’s Food and Agriculture organization states in a new report that 124 million people in 51 countries experienced high levels of food insecurity. “Hunger and food insecurity plague the lives of millions worldwide” […]

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To Have Children Or Not: The Importance Of Finding A Balance

By 2050, Nigeria will become the world’s third largest country by population. The UN predicts that one-third of all people—almost 4 billion—will be African by 2100. While the world’s population has changed dramatically over the last 50 years, little is still understood about fertility transition and the reasons behind it. Over the last half a […]

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