Women and health

It’s time to set a women and health agenda
In today’s global health agenda, women’s experiences—from birth to death and in all their diversity—deserve to occupy center stage.

Women, welfare & human rights
HSPH student examines government policies and social forces that affect sexual and reproductive health of women.

Child brides, child mothers, child victims
A tale of two siblings that plays out hundreds of thousands of times every year in rural India

Trafficked
Sold into slavery in the age of AIDS

Shadow epidemic: Malignancies on the rise in developing countries
While it’s well known that cancer is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, what is less recognized and understood is the significant growth of cancer in the developing world

Making sense of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Researchers with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative seek to understand and prevent sexual atrocities in the Congo

Saving mothers and infants from HIV
New drug regimen could revolutionize care in the developing world

Walking the talk
Exercise is the right Rx, says breast cancer surgeon and survivor

 

Photo: Kent Dayton