Interview in july 2021 edition of USAID/West Africa Regional Health Office ParlerHealth Newsletter
Since 2020, Marie Ba has served as the Director of the Ouagadougou Partnership (OP) Coordination Unit and as a leading advocate and actor for women and families in the region. As Director, Marie leads collaboration and coordination among the OP’s stakeholders, including the Ministries of Health in the OP’s nine member countries, civil society organizations […]
Diversity and solidarity in global health
Everyone, equally, has a human right to health. 1 However, our health systems, communities, and nations do not support people’s health equally or equitably. The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly underscored health disparities: SARS-CoV-2 infections and associated deaths differently affect women, service workers, economically disadvantaged people, and other population groups. 2 Yet, even in the best of times, […]
THE CAYA DIAPHRAGM
How a New Self-Care Product in Niger Is Meeting Women’s Unique Needs During COVID-19? As COVID-19 disrupts access to essential healthcare across the globe, it is more important than ever to offer a wide range of voluntary family planning (FP) options including methods that a user can start, stop and fully control herself. Women who […]
How Senegal is Providing Reproductive Health Services to those Who can Least Afford it
Pregnant with her second child, 30-year-old Ndiabou Niang was enduring pelvic pain, but couldn’t afford to access prenatal care in Diabe Salla, a village on the outskirts of the small town of Thilogne in north-east Senegal. Her husband was unemployed and her earnings of under CFAF 10,000 (17 USD) from selling seasonal fruits in the […]
Pandemic Preparedness: Strengthening Family Planning Policies Today to Secure Essential Services for Tomorrow
With the arrival of COVID-19, countries are experiencing disruptions of health services of all kinds— health workers have been redeployed, supplies already in short stock are even more difficult to find, scarce financial resources for health are being reallocated, and routine health services are less, if at all, available. COVID-19 is causing facilities to […]