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Readiness of Health Facilities to Deliver Family Planning Services and Associated Factors in Urban East-Central Uganda
(BMC, 2025)Health facility readiness is essential for realizing voluntary, rights-based family planning. However, many countries, including rapidly urbanizing Uganda, face challenges in ensuring their health facilities are sufficiently ... -
Broken Promises: The USA Foreign Aid Freeze Threatens Women's, Children's, and Adolescents' Health
(The Lancet, 2025)In The Lancet, we present a concerning picture of progress in improving reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) and nutrition, characterised by a marked slowdown since the 2016 launch of the ... -
Hidden Cities, Hidden Gaps: Measuring Facility Readiness for Maternal and Newborn Health Services and its Association with Person-Centered Maternity Care in Urban Informal Settlements of Nairobi, Lusaka and Ouagadougou Cities.
(medRxiv, 2025)In sub-Saharan Africa, maternal and newborn deaths remain disproportionately higher among low-income populations, and they are associated with delivery in poorly equipped facilities and a shortage of staff to manage birth ... -
Investigating the Enablers and Barriers for Hypertension Control in Dakar: A Qualitative System Effectiveness Study.
(BMJ, 2025)Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death worldwide. The leading risk factor, hypertension, is a major public health issue in Senegal, putting the health system under pressure. This qualitative study aimed to ... -
Inclusive Education and School Preparedness during COVID-19. In An Introduction to Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (1st ed., p. 14). eBook ISBN 9781003353188
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2025)This chapter grapples with the role of schools in disaster contexts, how inclusive education can respond to these additional challenges for children with disabilities, and then moves toward recommendations on how education ... -
Inclusion of Refugee Teachers into Kenya's National Education System
(APHRC, 2025)Kenya hosts over 774,000 registered refugees, most of whom reside in the Dadaab and Kakuma camps (UNHCR, 2024). Within these camps, more than 160,000 refugee learners are enrolled in approximately 200 schools, many of which ... -
Creating Pathways for Refugee Teacher Recognition and Registration
(APHRC, 2025)Recognizing refugee teachers is more than a moral obligation; it is a strategic investment in global education and social cohesion. By addressing systemic barriers through the Shirika Plan and other frameworks, refugee ... -
Support for Learners with Learning Disabilities: A Call for Differentiated and Individualized Instruction
(APHRC, 2025)Learners with learning disabilities could benefit from differentiated and individualized instructions to achieve learning gains. This policy brief focuses on support for learners with learning disabilities and attempts to ... -
Advancing Gender-Transformative Parenting to Improve Early Childhood Development Outcomes in Kakamega County
(APHRC, 2025)Teenage parenthood continues to pose serious developmental and socioeconomic challenges in Kenya. According to the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS) 2022, 15% of adolescent girls aged 15 -19 have begun childbearing. ... -
School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Kenya: Gaps and Recommendations
(APHRC, 2025)School-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) takes many forms, such as corporal punishment, bullying, emotional abuse, verbal abuse, and sexual violence, many of which are a result of harmful gender norms and inequality. ...
