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USAID supports advancing equitable and high-quality access to cancer prevention, screening, and treatment services. Through these collaborative efforts, we are actively working towards a healthier and more inclusive future for all.

USAID developed Breastfeeding Beyond the first 40 Days to encourage breastfeeding in Khatlon region and throughout Tajikistan. The intervention uses a community-tested social behavior change communication strategy to tackle major cultural barriers, including the religious community to find innovative ways to encourage breastfeeding.

Women play a critical role in agricultural research communities and help ensure that innovations work for all farmers and participants in agrifood systems Read the stories of women researchers working in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and beyond to end hunger and create more resilient food systems through their contributions in science, technology, research and agriculture.

USAID’s Clean Air Catalyst program, with help from USAID’s Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Hub commissioned a gender analysis for air pollution in the transport sector in Indore, India—a CAC pilot city of 2 million people.

In February 2021, the UNICEF and United Nations Population Fund predicted that there may be an additional two million cases of female genital mutilation/cutting over the next decade as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.