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Factors affecting provision of high-quality maternal and newborn healthcare in Zanzibar – A qualitative study

Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 2025, 101122

This study identifies key barriers to quality maternal and newborn healthcare in Zanzibar, including resource shortages, poor working conditions, and cultural factors, emphasizing the need for improved infrastructure and culturally sensitive approaches to enhance health outcomes.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing; Human rights, Africa

Recognising obstetric emergencies

Elsevier,

Case Reports in Women's Health, 2025, e00695

Effective early recognition and standardized triage systems, such as the UK�s Birmingham Symptom-specific Obstetric Triage System, are essential for timely intervention in obstetric emergencies, especially amid rising complexities and health inequalities. Prioritizing inclusive, patient-centered care, robust safety investigations, and multidisciplinary teamwork are crucial for improving maternal and neonatal outcomes and ensuring equitable, high-quality maternity services.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Health and wellbeing, Europe

Advancing personalized medicine in LMICs: Predictive indicators for cervical cancer immunotherapy response

Elsevier,

Seminars in Oncology, 2025, 152352

The World Health Organization reports that cervical cancer ranks as the eighth most common cancer worldwide and is the ninth leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Cervical cancer is a significant global health challenge, with high incidence and mortality rates, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. While immunotherapy has emerged as a promising strategy, its efficacy is variable among patients. Predictive biomarkers are essential for identifying patients most likely to benefit from immunotherapy.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

Voicing decolonial dialogues: Indigenous teachers’ translanguaging in the mainstream classroom

Elsevier,

Linguistics and Education, Volume 88, August 2025, 101440

This study explores how minoritized indigenous teachers in Vietnam use translanguaging between Bahnar and Vietnamese to support indigenous students’ learning and participation in mainstream classrooms.

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SDG:

Goal 4: Quality education

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Education, Asia

Quantitative assessment of factors that influence heat vulnerability in residential areas using machine learning and unmanned aerial vehicle

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City and Environment Interactions, 2025, 100214

This study employs high-resolution UAV thermal imagery and machine learning to analyze microscale urban heat patterns in a vulnerable residential neighborhood in Daejeon, South Korea, identifying key factors such as alley width and proximity to rivers that influence thermal vulnerability. By informing targeted heat mitigation strategies in urban regeneration areas, the research supports SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and SDG 13 (Climate Action), advancing the World Population Day goal to �Leave No One Behind� by addressing localized climate risks in densely populated, marginalized urban settings.

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SDG:

Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 13: Climate action

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Sustainable cities and human settlements; Health and wellbeing, Asia

Women's participation in the research development of a country

Elsevier,

International Journal of Educational Research Open, Volume 8, June 2025

Women's participation in science has been growing throughout history. However, a gender gap in their equity in participation requires pragmatic strategies and public policies that motivate women's opportunities in research. This study aims to analyse the scientific contribution of female Ecuadorian researchers through a diagnosis of the metrics and co-author's criteria for scientific publications to establish strategies oriented toward women's inclusion in Ecuador's research development.
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SDG:

Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing, South America

Associations of adverse childhood and adulthood experiences with depressive and anxiety symptoms among rural left-behind women: A cross-sectional study in China

Elsevier,

SSM - Mental Health, Volume 7, June 2025

This article examines the associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and adverse adulthood experiences (AAEs) with depressive and anxiety symptoms among rural left-behind women in China. 
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Asia

Development and change in mathematics education for undergraduate women: An examination of the early years of Barnard College

Elsevier,

Journal of Mathematical Behavior, Volume 78, June 2025

This article explores how the mathematics education and educators at the New York, USA women’s college, Barnard College, during its early years approached the issue of equal study on separate campuses as well as how some of the female students of Barnard with a mathematics focus in their studies utilized their knowledge of this male-dominated field to pursue careers following their graduation.
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SDG:

Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
North America

From oral counting to plotting graphs: Advances in girls' math education in the South of Brazil

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Journal of Mathematical Behavior, Volume 78, June 2025

Throughout the 19th century in southern Brazil, as in the whole country, girls received a poorer mathematical education than boys. Historical records of this education are scarce. The first systematic opportunity for girls to progress beyond basic arithmetic was by pursuing training as elementary school teachers. In the 20th century, several movements converged to reduce inequalities: coeducation became standard in primary schools, secondary education was standardized, and both coeducational and girls’ secondary schools expanded rapidly.
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SDG:

Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
South America

“They do not have the same needs”: Mathematics education for girls and young women in France (19th-early 20th century)

Elsevier,

Journal of Mathematical Behavior, Volume 78, June 2025

This article examines the main places and characteristics of mathematics education for girls and young women in primary and secondary schools during the 19th and early 20th century. It looks at, in particular, the mathematical content that pupils learned in these schools and the aims of the teaching they received. It shows how female mathematics teaching differed from its male counterpart by responding to various gender stereotypes referring to the ‘nature’ and social role of women. The article also presents to what extent the girls’ mathematics programs were progressively aligned with those of boys, until they became almost identical from the 1920s onwards.
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SDG:

Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality
Europe

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