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Category: Global development

  • Why Mozambican women don’t use birth control to prevent pregnancy

    Global development

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    9th July 2026

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    Aureo de Paula

    Correcting basic misperceptions about pregnancy risk could be a powerful, low-cost tool for reducing unwanted pregnancies and improving women’s reproductive autonomy around the world. That’s the central message of new research conducted in Mozambique.

    Why Mozambican women don’t use birth control to prevent pregnancy
  • Defeating malaria: how local volunteers and shopkeepers help save lives

    Global development

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    14th May 2026

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    Pedro Carneiro

    Training local volunteers and medicine shopkeepers can help to reduce the risk of mortality from malaria in lower-income countries. Investment in hospitals naturally remains vital, but boosting capacity at local level – particularly in the quality of local public clinics – will save lives.

    Defeating malaria: how local volunteers and shopkeepers help save lives

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