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Namibia launches the Child Maltreatment Clinical Guidelines

Violence against children in Namibia remains alarmingly high despite…
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Participants role-playing the referral pathway.

Empowering Frontline Health Workers to Address GBV In Namibia

In Namibia, nearly 35% of women are subjected to intimate partner…
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Marguerite Mallo Bagaza, Midwife

Marguerite Mallo Bagaza, Midwife

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Participants with the Facilitators from HQ and AFRO during the child maltreatment training

Namibia holds an inaugural training on the management of child maltreatment

Childhood is meant to be a time of joy, growth, and development, free…
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Zvanaka Sithole National Professional Officer-Family & Reproductive Health Linkages

WHO facilitates capacity building workshop on INSPIRE technical package in Zimbabwe

By Vivian Mugarisi Mazowe, Zimbabwe - To catalyze Zimbabwe’s…
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Training on the Clinical Handbook for the health care of Survivors subjected to Intimate Partner Violence and/or Sexual Violence in Rundu

WHO’s GBV clinical handbook an eye-opener for doctors in Namibia

When Dr Ifeolu Oyedele first learned that he would be going for…
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Gender based violence continues

Involving men in tackling gender-based violence in Uganda

Kampala – As a community educator on child abuse and gender-based…
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Finding her courage after years of suffering

Finding her courage after years of suffering

Tshikapa, Democratic Republic of the Congo – “He beat me for 30 years…
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Aitta Kébé and Maimouna Tamba are fighting Gender Based Violence in Senegal

Fighting gender-based violence at the grassroots in Senegal

Dakar – Though separated by 100 km, Aitta Kébé and Maimouna Tamba are…
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WHO Health Promotion Officer, Mrs. Celia Kaunatjike, making a presentation on documenting violence during a training of health managers in Swakopmund

Namibia's Health Sector responding to violence against women and girls

Violence against women and girls is a violation of their human rights…
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