Women on the Rise in Global Health: Q & A with a Malian Trailblazer

June 14, 2018How can more women rise to leadership positions in global health and beyond? Hawa Diallo has some ideas.en fran çaisWhat will it take to open more leadership positions to women in global health? How can we help more women and girls get the health services they need? And are we anywhere close to achieving gender equality?These are some of the questions we ’re asking in our Women on the Rise in Global Health series. We’re looking for ideas and insights from women leaders throughout the health care and global health fields on how they’ve gotten where they are, and what it will take to changethe statistics.This timeMolly Rosett and I sat down withHawa Diallo, the general administrator of the Orange Mali Foundation. Orange is one of Mali ’s biggest companies—kiosks for their mobile phone and internet services seem to be everywhere, even in remote parts of this massive country.“It’s a communications enterprise, yes,” Diallo says, “but we also feel a responsibility to help the Malian population rise out of poverty.”Women have to be educated. And they have to fight for themselves.One way the foundation is doing that is by building clean, safe spaces at health facilities for women to stay while receiving care for obstetric fistula —one of the most disempowering afflictions in world, and all too common in countries where women don’t have equal rights, girls are married off at young ages, and female genital mutilation is widespread.Can you tell us a...
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