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It’s tough being a woman in South Sudan. A woman has little economic mobility, may be forced into marriage by the age of 14, and, should she become pregnant, she has a one in seven chance of dying due to pregnancy-related causes. As South Soudan edges towards war with Sudan, life for women will likely get more difficult. Joy Mukaire of the Christian Health Association of Sudan (CHAS), a Health Systems 20/20 collaborator, tells us how despite the setbacks she’s helping other women access quality health care.

Health Systems 20/20 is pleased to release the eighth in the Better Health Systems – Strategies that Work series. This new brief focuses on USAID’s Health Systems Assessment Approach (HSAA), which has been widely used in the developing world to diagnose health systems performance.

Thousands of Surinamese and Brazilian miners are heading to Suriname’s isolated interior in search of work and commercial sex workers are following them. Since almost one-third of people living with HIV/AIDS in Latin America reside in Brazil, the migration is creating a serious public health threat.

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