Development in Practice has recently published a special edition issue on Faith and Health in Development Contexts- July 2017.
Preview of Articles in the special edition:
- Guest introduction: faith and health in development contexts Christopher Benn
- Faith and palliative care: a partnership of care in low- and middle-income countries Elizabeth Grant, Mhoira Leng, Elizabeth Namukwaya, Ivan Odiit Onapito, Kellen Kimani & Julia Downing
- Network development for non-state health providers: African Christian health associations Jill Olivier, Frank Dimmock, Quentin Wodon
- Roles of religious actors in the West African Ebola response Katherine Marshall
- The percentage of HIV treatment and prevention services in Kenya provided by faith-based health providers John Blevins, Mimi Kiser, Emily Lemon, Ahoua Kone
- Faith-based HIV response in post-Soviet Eastern Europe: the case of Channels of Hope in Russia, Romania, and Armenia Elisabet le Roux
- Models of engagement between the state and the faith sector in sub-Saharan Africa – a systematic review Eleanor Whyle, Jill Olivier
- Female genital cutting in Egypt: drivers and potential responses Quentin Wodoen, Ali Yedan, Els Leye
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A comprehensive approach to providing services to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Democratic Republic of Congo: addressing more than physical trauma Cudjoe Bennett, Manka Banda, Lior Miller, Joseph Ciza, William Clemmer, Mary Linehan & Larry Sthreshley
- Whole-person health and development: two South Indian initiatives Katelyn N.G. Long, Gillian Paterson & Sara Bhattacharji
- The unhealthy divide: how the secular-faith binary potentially limits GBV prevention and response Elisabet le Roux, Lizle Loots