Universal health coverage is important, but it alone is not enough to guarantee access to health services and improve health. We need specific goals that address the diversity of barriers to care faced by women and adolescents.
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Maternal Health
In this two-part blog series by IWHC’s Shannon Kowalski, she discusses how the proposal for “universal health coverage” in the next post-2015 development agenda falls short when it comes to women and adolescents.
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The International Women’s Health Coalition is centrally concerned with the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people. The following contribution focuses specifically on the challenges facing girls, who continue to experience systematic social, economic and political marginalization in every part of the world.
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An estimated 35,000 pregnancies occur every year in Peru as a result of rape. Women and girls are faced with two options: seek an illegal abortion and risk going to jail or carry the pregnancy to term.
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The last couple of days of the ICPD Global Youth Forum in Bali, Indonesia, have seen a flurry of around-the-clock activity by [...]
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While governments debated over the green economy and designed a roadmap for the United Nations to deliver on Sustainable Development, women’s and [...]
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Zonibel Woods is the founder of the Women and Climate Change Foundation and a member of RESURJ. This post originally appeared on [...]
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We, civil society organizations working to promote women’s and young people’s human rights, call on world leaders on the eve of the [...]
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Following on the heels of terrible House action against women’s health, the Senate is proving to be a safer place for women. [...]
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Leaving no stone unturned, women’s health opponents are working again to eliminate funding for international family planning and reproductive health programs, as [...]
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