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“If Your Cycle is Normal, Why Play with It?”

Sneha Khedkar

December 07, 2023 |

The Xylom |

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Response Location: India, Mumbai

Some people who experience debilitating periods are using hormone therapy as a means to manage or suppress menstruation. These norethisterone tablets can be seen as a tool for reproductive freedom, allowing people to have some control over when and how their body menstruates.

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No Place For Discrimination: These Traditional Leaders Are Standing Up For SGBV Survivors In Their Communities

Rukaiyatu Idris

December 05, 2023 |

The Solutions Paper |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Borno State

Groups like Women in New Nigeria and Youth Empowerment Initiative (WINN), in collaboration with local leaders, are addressing stigma and providing support services for survivors of sexual and gender-based violencev(SGBV). These groups educate survivors on the violence they endured, provides them with a safe space to rest and engages them in the community to fight feelings of isolation SGBV survivors often face.

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University students across Chicago influence schools to stock period products

Annabel Rocha

December 01, 2023 |

ILLatinoNews.com (Illinois Latino News) |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Blood Buds is a university student-led organization that works to fight period poverty by contacting student advisors to ensure period product dispensers across campus are consistently filled. The group also pushed the university to add a contact number to dispensers to students can call or text to let someone know the machine is empty. Currently, the university has 34 dispensers across campus.

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The mobile clinic helping indigent Nigerians stay alive

Yahuza Bawage

November 24, 2023 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria

To enhance rural access to healthcare in Nigeria, the Parkers Mobile Clinic partners with local volunteers, healthcare professionals, educators, and community development advocates to identify and remedy unique healthcare gaps. Outreach programs are then designed to provide localized mental health support, nutritional counseling, and other reproductive health services.

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This Nigerian's campaign for the HPV jab is a fight against more than cancer

Zubaida Baba Ibrahim

November 23, 2023 |

Vaccines Work |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Maiduguri, Borno State

To increase awareness of cervical cancer and the cancer-preventing HPV vaccine, Al-Ansar radio shares information about the disease, the vaccine and works to dispel speculation and misinformation about vaccines in general to those in underserved and hard-to-reach areas, as they’re often hardest to get vaccinated.

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When you're young, lonely, and chronically ill, online communities are a lifeline

Julia Métraux

November 13, 2023 |

Mother Jones |

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Response Location: United States

Online gaming communities are helping people who live with chronic illness by providing forums for social connection and emotional solidarity. The multiplayer game Animal Crossing, for example, helped people meet basic psychological needs during lockdowns.

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"We Are Suffering": Despite Steps Taken, Gas Flaring Still Threatens Livelihoods in Niger Delta

Ekpali Saint

November 09, 2023 |

The Xylom |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Ogboinbiri, Bayelsa

Gas flaring penalties have done little to prevent the practice in Bayelsa, Nigeria, so locals are calling for changes like diverting it to produce usable energy and creating strong policies to regulate it.

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Transforming Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health: The Tombey Approach

Chinonso Kenneth

November 06, 2023 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kwara

The Hacey Health Initiative’s Tombey project works to connect young people — especially young girls — with reliable, accurate information about sexual and reproductive rights and health (SRHR), as well as relevant sexual and reproductive health services. The Tombey Project offers an online SRHR course, a “sexiontary” full of SRHR terms and definitions and connections to youth-friendly counseling services. Since 2016, over 3,000 youth have taken the Tombey Project’s online course and it’s estimated that over 100,000 young people across the country have been impacted by the Tombey Project in some way.

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What will it take for Arizona's gay bars to stop overdoses?

Joseph Darius Jaafari

October 24, 2023 |

LOOKOUT Phx |

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Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

In an effort to combat overdoses in the LGBTQ+ community, some local spaces — like gay bars — are carrying Narcan. While not every gay bar in the area is on board with carrying Narcan, there are several individuals and local organizations working to push these venues to make a change and helping to ensure people who need it can access the potentially life-saving drug if they need it.

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Niger girls learn about menstruation to stay in school, tackle stigma

Hamzat Abaga

October 21, 2023 |

Daily Nigerian |

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Response Location: Niger

In Niger, an initiative challenging menstrual stigma is promoting knowledge and hygiene through community engagement and mentorship. Since 2019, the foundation has reached over 20 schools, 35 communities, more than 3,000 women and girls.

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