Following a successful inaugural conference held in 2018, the Pan African Women in Health (PAWH), hosted its second annual conference on Friday, March 29th, in Johannesburg, South Africa. In commemoration of International Women’s Day, the one-day conference convened..
Since 2014, UNICEF has adopted a Gender Action Plan which outlines a number of strategies and areas of focus for the organization to achieve gender equality as well as girls’ and women’s empowerment.
Ngaima Sesay is a Mental Health Professional with special interests in trauma psychology and psychosocial approaches to understanding mental illness. In 2012, she began her career in mental health as a psychology...
Too many females are too afraid to speak up, stand out or simply have an opposing say. This is frowned upon because it feels as if she is trying to break into the Alcatraz of “the boys club”....
"I've always had an interest in the growing industry of Medical Aesthetics, which is an exponentially growing industry. Even within South Africa, that seemingly has new advances at every congress,...
Women are natural health providers, it is twisted within our DNA” Mazyanga Lucy Mazaba is a mother of four, two beautiful young ladies and two handsome boys. She is an epidemiologist, but for the longest time, ever since 1986 to 2016, Mazyanga was a practicing Medical Laboratory Scientist in virology, specifically vaccine preventable diseases including...
Fatou Mbacké Sy is a Senegalese, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A) in Anthropology and an MPH. Fatou is a project coordinator at ENDA Santé, an international NGO, created and based in Senegal, but present in over 10 countries in West and Central Africa. She has extensive experience in HIV/AIDS programming and research,...
Zeba Siaanoi is an Advocacy Specialist with Malaria No More in Kenya. She has over 15 years of experience working on advocacy, campaigns and communications with leading international agencies based in Nairobi. As an advocacy specialist, she secures political and financial goodwill to end malaria. She works mostly with county governments in Kenya. Zeba’s passion...
Erushka Pillay leads public health programs on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and HIV. Many of these programs have focused on health systems strengthening, capacity building of health care workers and access to care for marginalized communities. The growing HIV epidemic in South Africa and the barriers to care that Erushka witnessed pushed her to pursue work...
Doris Mollel was a 900-gram premature baby who was born 28 years ago. A first born twin, who grew up to become a beauty queen, she later on took her passion for giving back to the community and chose to support fellow premature babies. She launched the Doris Mollel Foundation with the main goal of...
