By giving women access to information they otherwise wouldn’t have, mobile phones are transforming lives. Putting smart phones in women’s hands could be a powerful tool to support sustainable development goals in the developing world, according to researchers from McGill University, University of Oxford and Bocconi University.

Classified as: Mobile phones, gender inequality, women, empowerment, developing world, sustainable development goals, sub-Saharan Africa, Luca Pesando, Department of Sociology
Published on: 25 Jun 2020

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Reducing opportunistic infections such as TB in children with HIV could save both lives and money

Classified as: medicine, faculty of medicine, health, children, HIV, World Health Organization, sub-Saharan Africa, Marie-Renee B-Lajoie
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Published on: 19 Jul 2016

With education, employment and income levels all rising for women in sub-Saharan Africa, many observers have speculated that divorce rates would follow suit – as they have in much of the developed world.  But a new study by McGill University researchers finds that divorce rates across 20 African countries over the past 20 years have remained stable or declined.

Classified as: McGill University, society and culture, shelley clark, divorce, sub-Saharan Africa, Centre on Population Dynamics at McGill, health outcomes
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Published on: 16 Dec 2015
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