Global Health

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Rewriting the Script

Trigger warning: Please be aware that this story includes a graphic description of childhood FGM (Female Genital Mutilation). This was […]

Oumie

“A world where gender equality is realized”

VIDEO: Oumie Sissokho, of The Girls’ Agenda in The Gambia, shares her perspective about how survivors’ stories empower and create […]

Alexise

À raconter l’histoire de la mortalité maternelle

VIDEO: Alexise Ouedraogo parle de son engagement à protéger la santé reproductive des femmes et des filles en Côte d’Ivoire […]

Jama

“Bringing Life to These Issues”

VIDEO: Jama Jack, of Think Young Women in the Gambia, talks with Elisa Gambino, One Production Place, about the power […]

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“I am a survivor of female genital mutilation”

VIDEO: Sise Sawaneh, from the Republic of the Gambia, discusses her advocacy to end female genital mutilation in this brief conversation […]

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Her Only option

She stood there in their family cattle kraal looking closely at the seemingly dry manure piled on a dirty plastic. […]

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Mesh Lives Matter: Told I would “have to live with the pain”

My life is never going to be how it should be. My story begins in 2006, I had a TVT […]

Nana

Time to Get Personal

I’m the middle child and only daughter. I was confused throughout most my childhood about what it meant to be […]

TraceAnn

Persevere: Greatness Awaits You

I grew up in what was referred to as a squatters community or captured land. Families living there were below […]

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Changing the Narrative

My journey as a young leader and advocate began when I was about 10 years old. Even as a child, […]