Helping a Teen Mom Dream Again

Philippines

When we met 19-year-old Jovie Erillia, mother to two-year-old Jhon Kyle, at her home in Santa Margarita in Samar, Philippines, she was living with her partner and his family. She had just turned 16 when she realized she was pregnant, the only one among her friends to face a pregnancy while still in school. “Shocked”

Looking Back on Her Decades of Service, Dr. Kobbie Sees a Promising Future for the Elimination of Cervical Cancer

Dr. Kobbie provides hands-on training to doctors and nurses in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam 2008.

We are closer than ever to eliminating cervical cancer. The World Health Organization affirmed the likelihood that cervical cancer can be eliminated within the lifetime of today’s young girls. But this is not news or even a revelation for Dr. Khunying Kobchitt “Kobbie” Limpaphayom, who has dedicated her life’s work to improving women’s reproductive health,

Youth Peer Educators in India Raise Awareness on Sexual and Reproductive Health Issues 

Dindori, India –– Amrita Sahu stands before a group of adolescents and holds up a menstrual pad. It’s a bold move in a farming village in central India’s tribal belt where conversations about sexual and reproductive health among young people are taboo and adolescents have few opportunities to ask questions about their bodies. “Everybody knows