When Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, many feared family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) programs globally would be decimated, with funds and attention diverted towards the virus and decades of progress in women’s health undermined. Roughly 18 months later, some
Amanuel Aklilu admits that when he attended his first session of DKT’s Higher Education Initiative (HEI), he was mainly interested in scoring some per diem to cover the cost of khat, an indigenous plant of the Horn of Africa that is a stimulant and produces
It was an unfortunate series of events that led Selam Abebe (not her real name) down a path to commercial sex work. At the age of six, her mother died and her father left her with relatives after he married and started a new family
Could experienced Health Extension Workers (L4HEWs) be the key to catalysing uptake of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) in Ethiopia? An 8-month pilot conducted at 52 health posts in four regions in 2016-17 suggests that L4HEWs have the ability to effectively provide LARC insertion and removal
