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  • Turning Power on its Head: A Meaningful Shift Toward Localization

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    Dot-Mom  //  Guest Contributor  //  August 10, 2022  //  By Koki Agarwal
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    Of COVID-19’s many lessons, one is most critical to our collective next steps:

    Business as usual in global health is no longer possible.

    The pandemic exposed weaknesses in health systems across the world, and particularly in the delivery of equitable, high-quality reproductive, maternal, newborn, adolescent, and child health (RMNCAH) services. It also reinforced that effectively addressing these challenges requires rapid, responsive approaches driven and owned by countries and local institutions.

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  • New Global Health & Gender Policy Brief: Global Fertility Rates and the Role of Infertility

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    Dot-Mom  //  August 3, 2022  //  By Maternal Health Initiative Staff
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    While the world’s population now approaches 8 billion people, global fertility rates have been declining for decades. The overall drivers of this decline include increased access to contraception and reproductive health care, an increase in women seeking higher education, women’s empowerment in the workforce, lower rates of child mortality globally, increased cost of raising children, and overall greater gender equality.

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  • How Gender Inequality Drives the Global Crisis of Unintended Pregnancy

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  July 27, 2022  //  By Alyssa Kumler
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    “Half. This is the proportion of all pregnancies that are unintended. That is 121 million pregnancies every year,” said Sarah Craven, Director of the Washington D.C. Office at UNFPA during a recent U.S. launch event for the 2022 UNFPA State of World Population (SWOP) report. “For these women, the most life altering reproductive choice, whether to become pregnant or not, is no choice at all. This is an unseen crisis unfolding right before our eyes.”

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  • World Population Day Shines a Spotlight on Inequities

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    Guest Contributor  //  July 11, 2022  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard

    July 11 is World Population Day—a day designated annually by the United Nations that should prompt us, in the words of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, to “focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues.”

    Examining population trends helps describe where we’ve been and suggests where we’re headed. Yet these facts about human existence on our planet also offer insights into how we got here—including a window into places where inequities exist and rights have been denied.

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  • Sustainable Partnerships: A Future for Maternal, Child Health, and Family Planning

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  July 6, 2022  //  By Alyssa Kumler
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    “Building strong and inclusive partnerships for maternal, newborn, child health, and family planning programs is not future work,” said Dr. Koki Agarwal, Director of USAID’s MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership at a recent Wilson Center event. “It’s urgent and it’s ‘right now’ work.”

    This exploration of country perspectives and expertise on improving maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and family planning programs was the third event in a series that placed regional experiences and voices in the foreground.

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  • Silencing the Stigma of Menstruation

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    Dot-Mom  //  May 18, 2022  //  By Chanel Lee
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    Every month, young women and girls in the villages of Nepal make their way into makeshift huts where they will reside for the week until their menstruation has finished. Some of them will turn to nearby sheds whereas others will travel through dense forests to reach these huts. Venomous snake bites, asphyxiation, and rape are just a few of the harsh realities of living in these poorly ventilated and weakly protected menstrual huts. This practice of self-isolation called “chhaupadi” is an ancient tradition of “untouchability” rooted in the belief that menstruation is sinful and impure. Considered bringers of misfortune, menstruating girls and women are forbidden from taking part in any household, religious, and social activities under this tradition, forcing them to distance themselves from their family and community during this time. Although chhaupadi seems like an extreme case or isolated custom, it actually represents a common global issue—menstrual stigma.

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  • No Progress Without Quality: Why Quality of Care Matters

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  February 16, 2022  //  By Chanel Lee

    Midwife Rebecca Aryee washes her hands during a lesson at Cape Coast Midwifery School, Cape Coast, Ghana, on Monday 4 June 2018. Jhpiego has set up a ‘skills lab’ at the Cape Coast midwifery school, and sponsored the development of learning apps to help facilitate the training of new midwives.

    Evidence shows that in low- and middle-income countries, the expansion of health coverage or access to care has not always reduced overall mortality, said Dr. Patricia Jodrey, Child Health Team Lead in the Office of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “However, the analysis also showed that when countries have progressed in improving the quality of their health systems, the survival rate tends to improve,” she said.

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  • Through the COVID-19 Lens: Essential Services Needed to Prevent Unintended Pregnancies

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  December 15, 2021  //  By Shariq Farooqi
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    “The current pandemic is straining human resources, disrupting supply chains and service delivery, and negatively impacting service seeking among women and girls in countries across the globe,” said Sarah Barnes, Project Director of the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative. She spoke at a recent event, co-hosted by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), on unintended pregnancies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The increasing rates of unintended pregnancies during the pandemic have exacerbated the vulnerabilities of many women, said Anneka Knutsson, Chief of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Branch at UNFPA.

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