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Women and household responsibilities under COVID-19 lockdowns: many steps backwards in implementing SDG 5 in South Africa [PDF]

Frontiers in Global Women's Health
Debates continue regarding the impacts of COVID-19 on women and girls. Lockdowns increased home-based responsibilities, causing work overloads and trauma.
Godwell Nhamo, Malebajoa Anicia Maoela
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Tracking under-five mortality from 1990 to 2023: Global, regional, and national trends, inequities, and projections toward achieving SDG Target 3.2 by 2030. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
BackgroundIn 2015, the UN General Assembly set Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in which SDG 3.2 called for all countries to reach an under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) of at least as low as 25 deaths per 1000 livebirths by 2030.
Guiying Cao, Jue Liu, Min Liu
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Harnessing the sustainable competitive advantage of social motivation in the informal market: A West African society insight

Heliyon, 2021
The existence of informal entrepreneurship is alleged to curb hardships related to unemployment. This has been the case of Nigerian youths at getting needs met but a dire exists when related to the African cultural heritage of value and goals.
Adebanji William Ayeni, Olaleke Ogunnaike, Edidiong Ayeni, Oluwole Iyiola   +3 more
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Obstacles along the path of women enterprises in Africa: A case study of Ogotun women in Ekiti state, Nigeria

Heliyon, 2021
African women have a history of entrepreneurship dating back to the pre-colonial era, but in this 21st century, women in Africa are assessed by the World Bank to be at the lower deck of economic breakthrough in comparison to men.
Emmanuel F. Jaiyeola, Mercy Modupe Adeyeye   +1 more
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Promoting Sustainable Development Goal 5 Through Ubuntu-Based South African Basic Education Curriculum

Studies in Learning and Teaching, 2023
Gender inequality is a pervasive problem worldwide and achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) of gender equality is crucial for social progress.
Sulaimon Adewale
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Targeted Delivery of 5-Fluorouracil and Sonidegib via Surface-Modified ZIF-8 MOFs for Effective Basal Cell Carcinoma Therapy

Pharmaceutics, 2023
The therapeutic effectiveness of the most widely used anticancer drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is constrained by its high metabolism, short half-life, and rapid drug resistance after chemotherapy.
Bharath Singh Padya, Gasper Fernandes, Sumukha Hegde, Sanjay Kulkarni, Abhijeet Pandey, Praful Balavant Deshpande, Sheikh F. Ahmad, Dinesh Upadhya, Srinivas Mutalik   +8 more
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Bridging the urban planning gender gap – in search of policy coherence between Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 11

Rozwój Regionalny i Polityka Regionalna, 2022
Urban planning suffers from a historic gender gap in theory, policy and practice. While some research has focused on how urban planning fails to respond to women’s needs and perspectives, the concept of an ‘urban planning gender gap’ remains ...
May East
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A Brief Analysis of SDG 3 – Good Health and Well-being – and its Synergies and Trade-offs with the other Sustainable Development Goals

Problemy Ekorozwoju, 2022
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), proposed by the United Nations in 2015, give countries around the world much to work on until 2030. The third SDG – Good health and well-being – surely cannot be pursued in isolation.
G Venkatesh
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Trends in maternal health facilities utilization and women’s autonomy in Nigeria (2013-2018): Attainment of sustainable development goals-5

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2020
Maternal health has emerged as a global priority because of a significant gap in the status of the mother’s wellbeing between the developed and the less developed countries. Women’s equality and empowerment are one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals,
Fagbeminiyi Fasina, Gbolahan Oni, Akpovire Oduaran, Gbemisola Samuel   +3 more
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SDG 5: Gender Equality – A Precondition for Sustainable Forestry [PDF]

, 2019
Key Points • Forestry cannot be thought of in isolation from its relations with other sectors and other parts of people’s lives – for both the health of the forests and the well-being of forest peoples. • Forest governance and everyday management are upheld by a superstructure of gendered forest relations – invisible to mainstream forestry – that often
Arora Jonsson, Seema, Agarwal, Shruti, Colfer, Carol J Pierce, Keene, Stephanie, Kurian, Priya, Larson, Anne M.   +5 more
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