Improving Gender Equality through Health
Every year, International Women’s Day provides a global platform to focus attention on the continued need to improve women’s status and opportunities all over the world. Development outcomes are greatly dependent on the degree to which women and girls are empowered to realize their potential and benefit from society’s gains. This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women.” One in three women around the world will experience some form of gender-based violence in her lifetime. Gender-based violence is a human rights and public health issue that limits individual and societal development with high human and economic costs.
Gender based violence impedes a woman’s ability to access family planning, protect herself from HIV, and care for her children. USAID is committed to working in collaboration with other U.S. Government agencies, NGOs, faith-based communities, private sector companies, and women and men globally to eliminate gender-based violence and improve the health of women around the world.
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The photos featured above were chosen from our International Women’s Day Call for Photos. From left to right:
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Sonam Komari, a skilled birth attendant, gives an antenatal check-up to a new mother in Mohdi village where she is the primary health care provider in Jharkhand, India. Photo Credit: Trevor Snapp/IntraHealth International [View full photo]
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Elizabeth Mpunga, a midwife who has undergone basic emergency obstetric and newborn care training, tends to a new mother and her baby after giving birth at the health center in Rtamba, Tanzania. Photo Credit: Kate Holt/Jhpiego [View full photo]
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Masreshah Abebe, a health extension worker, works to improve the health of women in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Photo Credit: Pathfinder [View full photo]
- As part of the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, a husband and wife visit a lady health worker at her home/office to discuss family planning options in Punjab Province, Pakistan. Photo Credit: Derek Brown, USAID [View full photo]
We are always looking for photos of USAID funded health projects for use in our communications. Please submit them any time to ghcommunicationsteam@usaid.gov. |
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