women and NCDs
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International Women's Day 2024: Re-imagining NCD care for and by women
05th March 2024
On International Women's Day, NCD advocates reflect on the many gender-based challenges related to NCDs, shedding light on the importance for governments to apply a gender lens to UHC.
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Civil society and government join forces to accelerate cancer care for women in Rwanda
17th August 2023
Rwanda - a regional leader in Universal Health Coverage - is helping women to detect and treat breast and cervical cancer earlier as part of government and civil society partnership to lower rates of undetected cancer.
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Human rights law: an overlooked tool to address the burden of NCDs on women
06th March 2023
Women experience many gender-based challenges in accessing healthcare - especially in low-resource contexts - but there is one advocacy approach that can tackle them all: human rights.
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Maternal death rates have stagnated as one million deaths projected by 2030
06th March 2023
Despite significant progress on maternal health, urgent efforts are needed to end preventable maternal deaths everywhere, calls a new World Health Organization (WHO) report.