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12/18/2025

Everyone can do something to create change.

Meet Dr. Fetiya from Ethiopia—she’s EngenderHealth Ethiopia’s Senior Maternal and Newborn Health Advisor, working to translate evidence into action that improves care for mothers and newborns. 💡

Dr. Fetiya proudly supports EngenderHealth’s Let’s Do Something campaign—because every action counts toward a gender-equal world.

🎥 Watch Dr. Fetiya’s story. Because small steps spark big change. ✨

12/18/2025

12/17/2025

What does it take to turn government commitments into real access to contraceptive care?

In Nigeria, EngenderHealth partnered with state leaders to help mobilize millions of naira for family planning—funds that strengthen health systems and expand voluntary services across four states.

See the story behind the progress: https://www.engenderhealth.org/article/advocacy-in-action-how-engenderhealth-helped-move-millions-for-contraceptive-care-in-nigeria

12/16/2025

Young people aren’t waiting for change—they’re creating it!

Through EngenderHealth’s Rights-Based Approach for Enhancing SRHR in Ethiopia, youth leaders in Addis Ababa are shaping national health policy, including successfully advocating for disability access in the country’s health sector plan.

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12/15/2025

Maternal deaths have fallen. Contraceptive access has expanded. Communities are healthier and futures are brighter. This progress is real, and it has saved countless lives.

But today, new political restrictions threaten to put essential reproductive healthcare out of reach for many and undo decades of hard-won gains.

Our latest article breaks down what’s at stake and why protecting rights-affirming care matters now more than ever.

Learn what’s happening and how you can take action to protect reproductive rights: https://www.engenderhealth.org/article/lives-saved-futures-secured-the-global-progress-we-cannot-afford-to-lose

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12/12/2025

Unaffordable health costs? We’re sick of it!

This , we’re calling attention to an essential part of Universal Health Coverage: making postpartum and postabortion family planning (PPFP and PAFP) accessible, integrated, and available to everyone who wants it.

These services strengthen health systems, support families, and protect reproductive rights.

Want to see the priority actions we’re urging global health leaders to take?

Check the first comment to learn more!

12/10/2025

This Human Rights Day, see how advocacy in Nigeria, inclusive care in Tanzania, and maternal health work in India are helping people claim their rights to health and safety!

Explore EngenderHealth's December newsletter: https://www.engenderhealth.org/article/engenderhealth-newsletter-december-2025

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12/09/2025

Everyone deserves safe, loving, and respectful relationships!

During the 16 Days of Activism, we’re spotlighting our SAFE-ACTIONS Bystander Intervention Framework, which outlines practical, safe ways anyone can step in, disrupt harmful behaviors, and support survivors.

Want to see what safe bystander action can look like?

Explore the framework here: https://www.engenderhealth.org/resource/safe-actions-bystander-intervention-framework

12/04/2025

Accountability is a powerful form of service delivery!

At the Dialogue in Kaduna, Nigeria, local community leaders are assessing a citizen-driven Health Sector Scorecard and demanding measurable commitments towards better PHC and secondary care services.



Nigeria Health Watch Kaduna Maternal Accountability Mechanism Clinton Health Access Initiative Kaduna State Community and Social Development Agency NHRC Nigeria The Lagos State Civil Society Partnership Public Health Sustainable Advocacy Initiative PHSAI Gates Foundation International Society of Media in Public Health National Nursing and Midwifery Training Institute - FMOH National Primary Health Care Development Agency

12/03/2025

Inclusion isn’t extra. It’s essential.

For this year's International Day of Persons with Disabilities, World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for greater action to ensure health systems meet the needs of the 1.3 billion people with disabilities worldwide.

EngenderHealth’s Scaling Up Family Planning (SuFP) program in Tanzania shows what this looks like in practice—by centering equity, partnering with communities, and expanding inclusive, rights-based family planning services.

12/02/2025

Double your impact this !

Every contribution goes twice as far thanks to a $25,000 match from EngenderHealth’s Board of Directors.

$1 becomes $2 to protect reproductive rights and expand access to contraceptive care, abortion care, maternal health, and adolescent SRHR.

Will you join us in advancing dignity, equity, and choice?

Give now: https://www.engenderhealth.org/giving-tuesday

12/01/2025

This World AIDS Day, we recognize the strength of communities driving the HIV response—even as disruptions and funding cuts threaten essential services!

This year, global partners are uniting around the theme “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response,” reminding us that progress is still possible when we work together.

Will you join the call for political leadership, global cooperation, and rights-based action to end AIDS by 2030?

Learn more from UNAIDS: https://www.unaids.org/en/2025-world-aids-day