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One ChickRx user recently asked, anonymously: "Fully recovered from eating disorder for a few years. Any long term health risks to be aware of?" A doctor answered her question providing some background on malnutrition and warning of risks of osteoporosis and tooth decay.

Another ChickRx user anonymously asked: "I can't stop peeing. I know my overactive bladder isn't from a UTI since there is no pain. What could be causing this?" A nutritionist answered that it could be something serious, like diabetes, or less serious, like a digestive issue. A urologist also weighed in, as did two peers who shared their experiences with overactive bladders and UTIs.

A different ChickRx user anonymously asked: "Will quitting smoking reduce the risk of cervical cancer? I've had HPV, but my last pap showed it was gone." A sex coach shared that if you smoke and have HPV, you're at a higher risk for getting cervical cancer, while a sexuality educator chimed in with additional details explaining why.

There are some topics women do not want to discuss with their friends, or even their doctors! Meanwhile, online information, when it is actually trustworthy, is usually general and not addressing the user's actual situation. Women need a trusted place to bring their concerns, get very high quality information, hear from those with similar experiences, and be as anonymous as they want.

The AO model engages young girls and adolescents ages 8-17 through clubs led by young female leaders in their own communities. The club leader comes to monthly trainings where she learns about different topics (self-esteem, leadership, reproductive health, etc.) and then replicates these lessons with younger girls in her community during weekly club meetings. The clubs create safe spaces in rural communities for young girls to share, learn and support each other to stay in school, defend their rights and make their own decisions.

A key step to empowering rural girls is to make them visible (literally!). A group of AO leaders have been trained in how to film and edit video, as well as how to use the “most significant change” methodology to evaluate the success of AO in their community from their own perspectives. In the process of learning to use this technology, girls discover their voices, tell their own stories, work as a team and address traditionally taboo issues such as gender violence and teen pregnancy.

We want to replicate such participatory video skill building with more girls!

1) Biana, a young Kenyan girl from a remote village in Pokot, who is fortunate to have access to the Internet, joins the Hey Sister community. She is allocated a unique number and is required to take ‘the pledge’ – a commitment to use the power of her voice to disseminate the critical information discussed therein back in her village.

2) Through her membership, Biana is given access to vital information. She is enabled to create and engage in dialogue surrounding financial empowerment and more importantly health. Being from Pokot, her mother has recently started pressuring her to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), as her friends are undergoing it too.

3) Through the ‘Ask Hey Sister’ forum, she is able to post questions anonymously and receive answers and feedback from her sisters and professional women from around the world. She is also able to educate herself and her friends on the risks of FGM and to locate rescue camps where she and her friends can visit and receive facts about exercising their rights.

4)Because of Biana’s pledge, the model ensures that the dialogue is shared not only with those who have Internet access, but also with those without. Together the girls disseminate knowledge gained back in their rural communities and propel their voices to African women around the world.

Imagine a healthcare provider in rural India delivering a baby into the world: the delivery room is dusty and dirty; tools are rusty and bloody from the last birth; and there is no way to sanitize hands or instruments. There is a supply of JANMA clean birth kits stacked on a shelf, but they go unused because rural healthcare providers were never trained on how the kits could save the life of mother and baby.

Following a strategy recommended by global health experts to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality, the Indian government is promoting institutionalized birth. However, medical facilities do not have the capacity to handle the increased volume of births. As a result, unsanitary conditions persist due to insufficient staff and training opportunities, leading to increased rates of infection, one of the leading causes of death for mothers and newborns. Clean birth kits are globally recognized as an effective solution. According to the World Health Organization, when birth attendants are educated about birth kits and how to use them, it has a significant effect on reducing death rates.

Now, step into the shoes of the under-trained rural healthcare provider described above. Imagine you just received a voicemail message that explained the importance of “clean hands” while delivering a baby, which then told you where to find hand sanitizer in the JANMA kit. You are now empowered with one of six critical steps to better perform your important job. Next week, you’ll receive another message about the importance of a clean delivery surface… and, so your training begins.

A mobile application is very discreet, and the women using it (women rural entrepreneurs) do not need to go to the market and interact with a conventional shop-keeper (mostly male) or male members of the family making the acquisition of hygiene products personal and free of cultural taboos. The mobile application would be used as a multi-purpose tool enabling both the ordering of the product and its payment; providing awareness information to the rural women about benefits, usage and disposal for these items; dispensing health adivsory as well as generating employment for rural women. These women are instrumental in implementing the supply chain (with support from social organizations and NGOs). Moreover, this project will address a deficit of activity both within industry and academia that investigates the socio-economic impact of mobile technology for women, and how technology can be designed to complement grassroots development projects for women.

The first of these games will be titled "Debbie's Doings"(Doings in Nigerian slang refers to "activities" or "acts") .It will chronicle the daily life a young university undergraduate as she passes through the university and the various moral, educational and physical challenges she faces.It will be episodic, released over a period of 12 months .In the style of Visual Novels, it will tell a story but allow the player take decisions at pivotal times, these will lead to different endings and conclusions.
In a typical scenario, The heroine may be at a club and be asked to take a drink or two.. After the first ones, the guys that brought her may offer her some more, the player would make a decision then if they should take more or stop drinking.. Taking more may result in her letting her guard down and having unprotected sex that may result in some STI...Taking the path of not drinking will see her being sober enough to insist the guy uses protection,thus keeping her safe..players will be motivated to try again even if they get a "Bad Ending", so they can see the alternate results. As they do this, they will be learning subtly how to assert themselves and take right decisions.
We intend not to shy aware from issues of Sexuality (As the recent popularity among women worldwide of Novels like "50 Shades of Grey" has shown women are more willing to explore and talk about their sexuality) ,We however hope to motivate them to do it right and safe.
This is just an example, since we intend to be episodic, we would be able to handle different issues affecting womenas we move along.

The proposed project primarily aims at supporting young women and girls’ exchange of ideas, experiences and knowledge. Collecting video interviews of young women who want to share their experiences about being a girl and published on one PDI/e-centre, it involves use of ICT technologies, generating, transforming, disseminating information/knowledge to marginalized communities. Priorities to public domain information (PDI) in critical social areas such as reproductive health, sexual rights where testimonies describing experiences of being loved, being encouraged, being informed, inspired, being in peace with one’s body and gender, having space to discuss insecurities, gain support will emphasize the importance of all kinds of empowerment in order to make conscious and informed choices about relationships, sexual behaviour and reproductive choices published.
Basis for the design and implementation of a community-based knowledge exchange and capacity-building program; To design a sustainable e-knowledge model for rural-suburban communities that would enable them to; plan and implement a capacity building program in critical development areas; develop criteria and impact indicators;develop content appropriate to the social and cultural conditions of the communities;facilitate the production, packaging and transformation of content to suit requirements of existing community and ICT delivery channels and; activities are:-
Research,Design and Management of PDI,Capability-Building/Training,Content Development i.e. website creation, voicing and video interviews published;Linkages

Since February 2008 GEC has provided a safe and collaborative space to deliberate on their issues and discuss solutions to problems identified. SWAGAA sensitizes schools to understand the importance of this program through presentations and staff trainings. The girls are supported by teachers or mentors who have been sensitized in their schools and play the role of club coordinators to monitor and activities. The weekly club curriculum includes topics such as Abuse, HIV/AIDS, Sexual Reproductive Health, Child Rights, advocacy, leadership, and gender.

Through the facilitation of an open forum, where girls lead discussion a supportive network and accessible resources, the club gives Swaziland’s forgotten girl child a place to express her opinions and solutions toward sensitive issues such as rape, forced marriage and HIV/AIDS. It is an outlet for young girls to not only address issues in their personal lives and communities’, but to come up with solutions as active changemakers in a solution. The club is a place for the Girl Child to feel free, safe, and strong. It is a place where she will learn about her rights, and her opportunities. It is a space that she owns and a place where she will find the guidance of mentors, role models, friends and counsellors.

I will describe what the YAB did in their last Forum Theatre performance. There were two YAB who acted as the facilitators during a skit on bullying; the other YAB were involved as youth performers. We see our young person "Deandre" and what a typical day is like for him at home and school. He lives at home with parents and a sister who goes to the same school. During the course of the day, the audience sees "Deandre" not wanting to go to school, being bullied by another student, not having friends, and not feeling supported. When the skit ended, the facilitators processed what occurred in the skit, discussed the outcome, and asked the audience how they would change the negative outcome into a more positive outcome, and invited them down to perform the skit as they envision it with the new outcome. Using Forum Theatre has the audience act as “spect-actor,” offering solutions to the problem, and empowering the audience in applying solutions to their own real-life situations. We did three separate Forum Theatre events (two during the school day and one evening event for parents and the community) and they were all different. Each dramatic outcome was unique due to the audience participating in developing solutions towards a more positive outcome.

The E HealthPoint bringS 5 critical health services to underserved rural communities:a)Safe drinking water, produced onsite by Reverse Osmosis & provided to families daily via a prepaid monthly subscription for $ 1.50 per Household ; b) Consultation with qualified doctors located in an urban telemedical center via 2-way video supported by electronic medical records, at $ 0.40 per consultation; c) Full onsite diagnostic laboratory capable of 70 different diagnostic investigations, at an average cost of $ 1 per test; d)Licensed pharmacy stocked with 250 medicines & Over the Counter (OTC) products, mostly low-cost generic medicines offered on price discounts to rural communities e) Responsible referrals to secondary healthcare facilities in public and private sectors
HealthPoint builds and operates clusters of eHP units, each containing 1 clinic and 1 WaterPoint in a central village with 2-3 additional WaterPoints in smaller surrounding villages.The E HealthPoint has a significant social, financial and positive health impact for individuals & community while also creating 12-13 jobs per cluster (most for women) for local inhabitants . The mission of E HealthPoint is to enhance health and productivity in underserved rural communities and its goal is to transform rural healthcare by demonstrating the commercial viability , long-term sustainability and social impact of the eHP model at scale.

The hotline workers are trained in providing maternal and neonatal health advice as well as integrated community case management for common childhood illnesses. When a community member calls, a hotline worker assesses the reason for their call and any symptoms present requiring care or just health advice. Based on this information, the hotline workers provide the relevant advice according to protocol or refer the caller to an appropriate health facility if needed. Topics of calls range from danger signs needing emergent care to women calling to learn their expected due date. Callers are provided with one-on-one health counseling with a care provider and are empowered to provide home based care and/or seek appropriate care for themselves or their children when appropriate. In addition, callers are registered for the tips and reminders service at the time of their call. The tips and reminders service provides women the opportunity to receive text messages or listen to recorded messages about how to care for themselves and their infants. Messages are targeted to provide relevant and timely health information and reminders based on the stage of pregnancy or age of child such as reminders for ANC visits, birth planning, immunization timing, and the promotion of positive health behaviors such as mosquito net use and exclusive breastfeeding. This program works with referral health facilities and community health workers to improve the health services delivery provided and to better prepare them for referred cases.

For last 13 years GOONJ channelises vast quantities of
underutilized material in urban homes to villages to address many
needs of village India.Clothing & other material is collected from
metros from corporates,schools,collages,institutions & residential
areas which reaches far flung villages of India
through our network of more than 250 grassroots partner groups. Un-wearable cotton cloth is turned into sanitary pads, reaching rural women through
same channel.Just by strengthening & spreading our present programmes,
generation, distribution & management of pad initiative is done
smoothly.
Four interconnected innovative aspects;
1. Providing better product; this pad get village women
to experience better product first hand, to feel the difference.
2. Behavioral change;Spread of awareness about health & hygiene
aspects tied to distribution of pads; bring about a long term
behavior change.
3. Supplying cloth holistically in long term: pad work is
implemented together with our other initiatives, ensuring fulfillment
of entire family’s clothing needs. Thus households have surplus cloth
available for use.
4.Teaching how to make cloth pads;village women are trained in
simple cloth pad making process so they can make it on their own as
also turn it into an income generation activity.

After working with the Korean Organization for Rare Diseases to identify the disease-specific groups they are aware of in their country, we will work with them to develop template emails to send to the group leaders. There will be two types of emails – one explaining DIS and its benefits from a disease-specific organization perspective, including directions on how to register, and a second that explains DIS from a patient and provider perspective, so we can leverage the groups’ networks to increase the knowledge about DIS among patients, their families, and providers. Ultimately this will lead to a doctor who has just diagnosed a young patient Kawasaki disease knows that by turning to DIS, he’ll have easy access to relevant medical articles for himself as well as patient-friendly materials and any applicable support groups that he can share with the patient’s family. By having a single web resource to check for both resources from his country and around the world, it allows the doctor to access the information quickly while providing personalized care to his patient.

'Made' is a 24 year-old Balinese woman who has worked at the Pasar Badung market since she left school at 15. She starts her days at 5am, prepares breakfast, and then sets off to work for 10 hours at the market, seven days a week.

Made had never visited a health centre until this year, when she was referred to YRS one of its peer educators after she told her about some health problems she had been having, such as a burning sensation when urinating and pain during sex.

It was easy for her to find the YRS clinic, a short walk away on the top floor of the market. She was able to see a doctor for free, and underwent an examination and pap test.

Made was told by the doctor that her symptoms were the result of bacterial vaginosis (BV), but that she had also tested positive for the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), an often symptom-free STI that can cause cervical cancer. She was prescribed antibiotics for the BV and was told to that she needed to return for regular pap tests to monitor the cells at her cervix.

The doctor referred Made to one of YRS's counsellors to discuss her diagnosis. It was explained to her that HPV was an STI, and she was encouraged to speak with her partner about her results and that he should seek treatment too. Safe sex practices were explained, and she was given some health information pamphlets to take home, along with free condoms.

Made now has routine pap tests at YRS, often receiving reminders from its outreach officers about this (the same one who helped with her BV treatment). She and her husband also now regularly use condoms.

International aid is becoming an increasing burden on more developed countries, which still have their own developmental challenges. Many people question why so many NGOs are working abroad when there is still so much poverty and medical related issues within America. We targeted Nigeria because of the vast socioeconomic differences and mortality rates compared to North America. Instead of merely sending volunteers abroad to operate a clinic in Nigeria, RISE’s innovative solution targets one of the main ominous developmental issues confronting Nigeria; their underdeveloped medical system. By working with, training and providing Nigerian medical professionals with equipment and a clinic in a rural area, RISE is providing Nigerians with a package to succeed. Nigerian health care students will focus on chronicling, educating and treating patients, to better understand how the community manages their own illnesses. Furthermore, we will be providing symptom management and treatment for walk in patients and educating the population through seminars, health fairs, and community outreach programs. RISE’s clinic will increase the doctor to patient ratio in an underserved area while also reducing the mortality of patients from preventable diseases. The hope is that through our teaching methods and clinic we will encourage Nigerian health professionals to want to live and practice in Nigeria. RISE will create a system that requires no international aid and provides a sustainable solution that has the potential to be a model for other university and NGO partnerships in the future.