by Cecile Vernant | Apr 15, 2014 | Youth Empowerment
Poverty related and neglected tropical diseases or diseases of the poor and neglected? Sleeping sickness, leprosy, dengue, parasitic worms, all these so-called neglected tropical diseases or “NTDs” are known to us. In addition, they are also widespread:...
by Leonie Osthues | Apr 14, 2014 | Youth Empowerment
After a lot of intensive work by colleagues at Head Office and in our country offices, DSW has recently revised its “Sexual and Reproductive Health Facilitators’ Training Manual”. The Manual, developed as part of DSW’s integrated Youth-to-Youth (Y2Y)...
by Andreia Oliveira | Apr 12, 2014 | Youth Empowerment
On March 15th, I had the opportunity to talk about strategies to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) at the Women’s Forum of the 27th Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific (ACP)-EU Joint Parliamentarian Assembly (JPA), Strasbourg, France. The JPA...
by dswen | Apr 11, 2014 | Youth Empowerment
The relations between reproductive health, population dynamics, and poverty are still widely unknown. In order to support public awareness for their relevance, at our annual journalist award ceremony this year, DSW honored three journalists for outstanding press...
by Renate Baehr | Apr 8, 2014 | Youth Empowerment
The 47th Session of the Commission on Population and Development is currently underway in New York (April 7th to 11th). The aim of the session is the assessment of the status of the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action that resulted from the 1994...
by Julie Najjunju | Apr 7, 2014 | Youth Empowerment
Diseases such as Malaria, Dengue,Leishmaniasis and Yellow Fever are preventable, yet they have the biggest impact on some of the world’s poorest people (WHO). One sixth of the illness and disability suffered worldwide is due to vector-borne diseases, with more...
