Archive for October 2023
Low-tech health app engages the hard-to-reach
[LAGOS] Five years after its launch, PENSA—a mobile app developed in Mozambique— has been accessed by more than four million people, emerging as the country’s premier digital health platform. The mobile application is enabling remote and underserved communities in the country to receive essential healthcare information and services, even using low-tech phones with limited functions,…
Read More‘Institutional change’ needed to meet gender equity goals
[CAPE TOWN] Gender researchers say urgent action is needed, including targeted funding, data collection, and institutional policy changes, to ramp up progress on gender equality, dealt a major blow by COVID-19. A report by UN Women warns that the world is far off track to meeting its goal of gender equality by 2030, with more…
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