Hidden Cities: Health Inequities in Urban Settings

This case study examines maternal and newborn child health initiatives in Bangladesh to see how they can inform strategies for the other countries where USAID is making significant investments. Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths (EPCMD) by 2035 is one of USAID’s top priority health initiatives, and currently that agency invests 90 percent of its maternal and child resources in the 24 countries that account for 70 percent of maternal and child deaths in the…

This report from the World Economic Forum measures gender disparities in 146 countries and tracks their progress over time, focusing on the relative gaps between women and men across four key dimensions: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. The 2023 edition indicates that it will take more than a century to close the global gender gap, and while it finds the global parity score has recovered to pre-COVID-19 pandemic…

This report by the World Health Organization (WHO), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the South African Medical Research Council is the first global review and synthesis of scientific data on two forms of violence against women: violence by an intimate partner and sexual violence by someone other than a partner. The analysis indicates 35 percent of women globally have experienced either intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence. Almost one-third of…