Eye health is saturated with gender inequality. Not only are women more likely than men to be blind or have a visual impairment, but they face additional barriers to access health services that may help treat them.
Watsemba Miriam, a documentary photojournalist, visited two schools in the Bududa district of Uganda to find out how school girls deal with their monthly periods.
I mistakenly saw my child as being a vessel by which to heal me, but this is where I was wrong. She was not my vessel to heal, but my stimulus. If I didn’t heal my wounds, then she would have to.
I have carried the weight of these stories with me for my whole life, because I wasn’t brave enough to speak out—and because I didn’t want to accept it. But we can’t heal what we don’t talk about.
The changes will be particularly helpful for women living with conditions including epilepsy, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, inflammatory bowel diseases and more.
In the coastal villages of Odisha, in eastern India, women do not work on betel vineyards due to an age-old menstruation taboo. But some women are rebelling. What does it take to fight against the society?
