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Anu Rammohan and co-workers study associations between exposure to violent conflicts and take-up of maternal health care services across countries. ....
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been recognized as a defining human rights, development and public health issue of our time. Economic empowerment is one of the most promising interventions to reduce IPV in sub-Saharan Africa, yet the evidence around economic factors that are key to ensure a reduction in IPV are still mixed. Furthermore, there is a lack of clarity on what kinds of economic empowerment works for which population group. This paper seeks a more nuanced understanding, by investigating whether the associations between indicators of economic empowerment and physical and/or sexual IPV are similar between the general population of women and among urban versus rural and young, or middle aged women versus older women. Using couples data from 25 DHS surveys across 15 countries (n = 70,993 women and men aged 15 and above at time of survey), we analyse how household wealth, men’s and women’s education and employment status, decision making on women ....
Stoop); International Food Policy Research Institute ( Hirvonen); Université catholique de Louvain, or UCLouvain ( Maystadt); Lancaster University ( Maystadt) Recognising the extent to which a lack of institutional trust jeopardises vaccination campaigns is crucial to improve immunisation rates. While the persistence of subnational pockets of low vaccination coverage in Africa has been attributed to societal, cultural, and religious considerations, as well as to limited access to vaccination services and to caregiver knowledge gaps, researchers are increasingly pointing to the role of vaccine hesitancy in hindering progress towards universal child immunisation coverage. Qualitative evidence suggests that lack of trust in local and national authorities is linked to vaccine hesitancy and refusal across the continent. For example, lack of trust in governments has been found to lead parents to question the vaccine information they receive from health authoritie ....