Dec 8, 2017 | Blog, Health & Human Security
In 2015, 100,000 girls ages 15-24 were infected with HIV in South Africa, compared with 42,000 boys. Soul City Institute for Social Justice created RISE Young Women’s Clubs to help shrink these catastrophic numbers, but calls for more funding and programming for...
Aug 25, 2017 | Health & Human Security, Operational and Delivery Networks
In the midst of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, the world’s worst cholera outbreak is raging with no end in sight. In the last three months, 400,000 cases of suspected cholera and nearly 1,900 associated deaths have been recorded. Vital water and...
Dec 2, 2016 | Advocacy Networks, Health & Human Security, Knowledge Networks
The Global Working Group to End School-Related Gender-Based Violence is a coalition of 40 agencies including governments, NGOs, civil society activists and researchers, a GSN, that advocates for policy changes, shares tools and knowledge, and promotes generation of...
Nov 30, 2016 | Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing, Networked Institutions
Raising Awareness since 1988—Hands Up for #HIVPrevention December 1 is World Aids Day—designated in 1988 by the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise awareness of an epidemic that has killed over 36 million people. HIV/AIDS since it was identified in the early...
Nov 9, 2016 | Blog, Cities, Employment & Prosperity
For days the smog levels in Delhi have been choking residents and threatening health with dangerous particles and an air quality index that has reached 999 (anything above 500 is considered “hazardous,” and, by comparison, the current levels in London are...
