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Global Perspectives on: Women’s Health

How to Join Forces to Advance Women’s Economic Power

Global Perspectives on: Women’s Health

July 16, 2024

online / Zoom

Women’s health investments face growing challenges: fiscal constraints and resurgent anti-gender movements threaten hard-won progress. However, these investments, particularly on the African continent, are crucial – not only for health and gender equality, but as key drivers of economic growth. This is especially true for sexual and reproductive health and family planning. In our digital dialogue, we explored how joint efforts across the private, public and civil society sector can improve information dissemination and access to women’s health services.

Women's health was treated in isolation and limited to just reproductive and sexual health matters. What we don't measure, we essentially can't see.
Dr. Huwaida Bulhan
Senior Clinical Operations Team Lead Africa, Roche
Investing in women and family planning is good for health outcomes in general, but more critically for the continent's development prospects.
Dr. Eliya Zulu
Executive Director, African Institute for Development Policy

In Conversation with ...

Experts on Women's Health
Dr. Huwaida Bulhan, Dr. Eliya Zulu, and Bame Modungwa

Contact Persons

Rhoda Berger, r.berger@globalperspectives.org

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