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Nepal
Breaking Barriers: Inside Nepal’s First LGBTQIA+ Hormonal and Laser Therapy Clinic
“In my mind, I only ‘came out’ once – from my mother’s womb,” says Swastika, a transgender activist and clinic coordinator of Nepal’s first Hormonal and Laser Therapy Clinic for LGBTQIA+ people. The clinic was established in 2022 in collaboration with IPPF’s member association, the Family Planning Association of Nepal (FPAN) and the Blue Diamond Society (BDS), Nepal’s pioneering LGBTQIA+ organization.
14 July 2016
Lorraine is centre manager of the Family Health Options Kenya (FHOK) clinic in Kibera, Nairobi – a place best known for being Africa’s biggest urban slum. Here FHOK is fighting poverty and myths to provide sexual health and education.
07 July 2016
As a schoolgirl Matilda Yeboah from Adentia in Ghana used to dream about what her life would be like in the future.
06 July 2016
First published in Huffington Post on 5 July 2016 Twenty-three-year-old Jas
04 July 2016
Before Agnes Nkandu found out about contraception the 24-year-old was constantly worried about getting pregnant.
01 July 2016
Jasmin, 23, is a married female garment worker from a poverty stricken area. “Without family planning,” I would not have been able to reach this level in my job. My job is very important to me."
29 June 2016
Four years ago governments and global health providers came up with a goal for an additional 120 million women to have access to contraception by 2