Pandemic Prompts New Digital Health Solutions for Family Planning
How programs in India, Nigeria, and Uganda embraced new technology to deliver family planning and maternal health services emphasizing self-care throughout COVID-19.
How programs in India, Nigeria, and Uganda embraced new technology to deliver family planning and maternal health services emphasizing self-care throughout COVID-19.
(2020) With the number of coronavirus infections surging, school districts across the United States are grappling with decisions about whether and how to re-open this fall.
(2009) Youth around the world—especially young women—experience a high risk of unplanned pregnancy and HIV because of their limited knowledge about sexual and reproductive health. Sexual behaviors among youth can include positive practices, such as abstinence and condom use, or lead to negative outcomes such as unplanned pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
(2007) States increasingly consider science and technology resources to be an asset in developing a strong economic advantage. As a result, strategies for training, attracting and retaining scientists and engineers have become more important state and national public policy issues.
(2008) Chronic malnutrition has been a persistent problem for young children in sub-Saharan Africa. A high percentage of these children fail to reach the normal international standard height for their age; that is, they are "stunted."
(2009) Lack of access to quality health care and clean water and sanitation, undernutrition, and other preventable or treatable causes lead to the deaths of tens of thousands of children worldwide every day.
(2008) The nature of work continues to change dramatically with the extension of work operations around the clock being one of the most striking alterations.