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Revolutionising access to digital menstrual health information for girls: Oky app
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"I want to know what to do when I get my first period and what changes to expect during puberty, so I feel prepared, assured and confident to manage them.” – Oky user
Girls have important questions about their health, and often they don’t know where to turn to find trusted, culturally sensitive information about their menstrual, sexual and reproductive health. UNICEF’s East Asia and Pacific Regional Office saw a need to close this gender digital divide and set forth to develop Oky – the world’s first period tracker app for girls and created with girls.
In today’s episode, we speak to Gerda Binder, UNICEF's advisor on gender and technology, about gender equality and digital technology in the region, and how the Oky app is helping to close that divide.
Gerda explains how the idea for the Oky app came about, the co-creation process with girls, their families, and communities, and how the app has been received in pilot countries of Indonesia and Philippines. We also discuss how her team is approaching the rollout of Oky in other countries like Papua New Guinea, where different cultural norms and religions play a part in access to an understanding of menstrual health.
Australia has provided $8 million to UNICEF to support the Oky app in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea.
Find out more about the Oky app here: https://okyapp.info/
We encourage you to join the conversation and follow Australia's Ambassador for Regional Health Security Dr Stephanie Williams at @AusAmbRHS.
76 episoade
Manage episode 377338895 series 2902575
"I want to know what to do when I get my first period and what changes to expect during puberty, so I feel prepared, assured and confident to manage them.” – Oky user
Girls have important questions about their health, and often they don’t know where to turn to find trusted, culturally sensitive information about their menstrual, sexual and reproductive health. UNICEF’s East Asia and Pacific Regional Office saw a need to close this gender digital divide and set forth to develop Oky – the world’s first period tracker app for girls and created with girls.
In today’s episode, we speak to Gerda Binder, UNICEF's advisor on gender and technology, about gender equality and digital technology in the region, and how the Oky app is helping to close that divide.
Gerda explains how the idea for the Oky app came about, the co-creation process with girls, their families, and communities, and how the app has been received in pilot countries of Indonesia and Philippines. We also discuss how her team is approaching the rollout of Oky in other countries like Papua New Guinea, where different cultural norms and religions play a part in access to an understanding of menstrual health.
Australia has provided $8 million to UNICEF to support the Oky app in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea.
Find out more about the Oky app here: https://okyapp.info/
We encourage you to join the conversation and follow Australia's Ambassador for Regional Health Security Dr Stephanie Williams at @AusAmbRHS.
76 episoade
Toate episoadele
×1 Reflections from Dr Stephanie Williams and Dr Lucas de Toca, Australia’s new Ambassador for Global Health 18:49
1 Training health care workers in PNG and Solomon Islands through the Field Epidemiology in Action program 18:49
1 From the field: Supporting health outcomes in Vanuatu through DFAT’s Australian Volunteers Program 9:57
1 The state of gender equality in global health: A deep dive into the 6th Global Health 50/50 report 29:38
1 Revolutionising access to digital menstrual health information for girls: Oky app 23:15
1 ‘Bad medicines’: The fight to stamp out substandard and falsified medicines in the Indo-Pacific 25:44
1 A conversation with Sir Jeremy Farrar, WHO’s new Chief Scientist 18:08
1 The importance of civil society in pandemic preparedness. A conversation with Carolyn Reynolds from the Pandemic Action Network 27:36
1 Insights from the Climate, Health and International Development Seminar: Paul Mitchell, Save the Children (Part 2) 19:00
1 Insights from the Climate, Health and International Development Seminar: Professor Kathryn Bowen, University of Melbourne (Part 1) 23:14
1 Empowering community leaders to advocate for COVID-19 vaccines through the vaccine champions programme 24:02
1 What is the current status of the malaria epidemic? A conversation with Dr James Kelley from WHO’s Regional Office for the Western Pacific 34:56
1 Advancing women's sexual reproductive rights in Vietnam – Hang Nguyen, MSI Reproductive Choices 40:36
1 Progressing health equity for persons with disabilities – Villaney Remengesau, Pacific Disability Forum (Part 2) 27:22
1 A conversation with WHO’s new Chief Nursing Officer, Dr Amelia Afuhaʻamango Tuʻipulotu 31:26
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