Coronavirus: how does women’s leadership make a difference in a crisis?
In the world’s poorest countries, the leadership of women at a grassroots local level will save lives during the coronavirus crisis. Find out why.
Read moreIn Nigeria, members of the Community Action Response Team are conducting house-to-house visits to increase awareness about Covid-19 and hygiene practice. Photo: ActionAid
In the world’s poorest countries, the leadership of women at a grassroots local level will save lives during the coronavirus crisis. Find out why.
Read moreActionAid volunteer facilitator, Hawa conducts an Ebola awareness session in Sierra Leone in 2014. Photo: ActionAid
Myths about the spread of global health phenomena are not new. They are a common occurrence and have existed for a long time, but in the age of social media, fake news, and misinformation it is now more important than ever to separate fiction from fact.
Find out how the coronavirus pandemic has generated its own information crisis.
Read moreWomen are at the forefront of trying to alleviate hunger during the coronavirus crisis. Photo: ActionAid India
Vulnerable people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are facing a double emergency from hunger and Covid-19, as the pandemic is affecting food supply and shutting down livelihoods of millions who are already subsiding on very little. Find out how coronavirus is pushing people to hunger.
Read moreLorine, a member of the Nyarongi Women’s Network which works to end violence against women in Kenya. Photo: Karin Schermbrucker/ActionAid
As Coronavirus spreads rapidly across the world, lockdown is the ‘new normal’ for many people, and the usual rules of life have changed. Find out how this has led to a surge in a danger just as profound as the virus: domestic violence.
Read moreCyclone Idai devastated parts of Zimbabwe. Photo: Zinyange Auntony/ActionAid
One year on from the devastating Cyclone Idai of 2019, ActionAid's Arbie Baguios explains what's happening in Zimbabwe and the consequences still being felt across Southern Africa.
Read moreResidents of a village in Sierra Leona, attend a hand-washing session during the Ebola outbreak of 2014. Photo: Tommy Trenchard/ActionAid
The World Health Organisation declared the Covid-19 outbreak as a pandemic in early March 2020. This new coronavirus and Covid-19 disease affects all of us around the world, but women and girls living in poverty will be even more severely affected. Find out what consequences this outbreak could have for women and girls worldwide.
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