The link between HIV and cervical cancer is direct and deadly. To understand the opportunities and challenges of integrating cervical cancer screening and treatment into HIV services for women, CSIS traveled to Zambia, which has been at the forefront of integrating these services.

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The Center for Strategic and International Studies traveled to Zambia because it has a disproportionately high rate of maternal mortality. But Zambia, as well as Uganda, is also the site of a new program, called Saving Mothers, Giving Life (SMGL), designed to reduce maternal mortality by up to 50 percent in selected districts in a year.

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An interview with President Joyce Banda, regarding women leaders' role in brining new attention to women's health and empowerment.

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In the current global environment of austerity and ever decreasing budgets, immunizations represent one of the pillars of global health that is a cost effective, proven intervention.

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I recently learned that in the Horn of Africa, and particularly in Somalia, polio officials are waging mass vaccination campaigns targeted at hundreds of thousands of women and children.

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