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  • An Inextricable Link: Maternal and Newborn Health and Climate Change

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    Dot-Mom  //  November 16, 2022  //  By Alyssa Kumler
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    “The effects of climate change can begin in the womb,” said Sarah Barnes, the Project Director of the Maternal Health Initiative at the Wilson Center at a recent event on the impact of climate change on maternal and newborn health outcomes, hosted by the Wilson Center and UNFPA. It is a connection that “[makes] it imperative that climate change and maternal and newborn health leaders work together to tackle climate change and improve maternal and newborn health outcomes, globally.”

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  • Meeting Family Planning Supply Chain Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa

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    Dot-Mom  //  November 2, 2022  //  By Stephanie Bowen & Kimberly Whipkey
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    This article was originally published as part of the fall 2022 issue of the Wilson Quarterly: As Strong As Our Weakest Link.

    Last April, Eless Limani set out on a long and costly bicycle ride to the Mponela Health Center to get a new supply of birth control pills, her usual contraceptive. The 32-year-old mother was not ready to have a second child.

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  • The Crisis of Perinatal Mental Health Requires Collaborative Solutions

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    Dot-Mom  //  October 26, 2022  //  By Alyssa Kumler
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    While a great deal of focus on risks to women’s health just before and after giving birth centers on physical wellbeing, Rebecca Levine, Senior Maternal Health Advisor with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), observed that we may be missing a key part of the picture.

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  • The Grades Are In: The Biden Administration Makes Progress on SRHR

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    Dot-Mom  //  October 19, 2022  //  By Deekshita Ramanarayanan
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    For six years, the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Index has been a tool to hold the United States accountable to the commitments made nearly three decades ago at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994, where 180 countries developed a human rights framework for global development that explicitly promoted SRHR for women and girls globally.

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  • Reproductive Autonomy: The Goal in Family Planning

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    Dot-Mom  //  October 12, 2022  //  By Alyssa Kumler
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    The 15th anniversary of World Contraception Day (WCD) on September 26th was a perfect moment to renew the commitment to increase awareness and knowledge about contraceptive methods. But the availability of safe and effective methods is not enough. Reproductive autonomy, which is defined as “having the power to decide about and control matters associated with contraceptive use, pregnancy, and childbearing,” is also a central tenet of both WCD and the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. People must be supported in making their own decisions about their sexual and reproductive health, including if and how they become pregnant.

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  • New Global Health & Gender Policy Brief: Mental Health and COVID-19

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  October 5, 2022  //  By Maternal Health Initiative Staff
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    The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching, negative impacts on health and well-being, particularly in population mental health. Mental health is strongly related to people’s social environment, and the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted this greatly. Many countries instituted shutdowns early in the pandemic restricting people’s movement both within and between countries. Shutdowns socially isolated people from one another and often led to poor mental health. The highest rates of mental distress occurred during time periods when COVID-19 mitigation measures were strictest and the number of COVID-19 related deaths was highest.

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  • The Missing Link: Stillbirth & Self-Care

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    Dot-Mom  //  Guest Contributor  //  September 28, 2022  //  By Elizabeth O'Donnell
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    For many people, stillbirth— the occurrence of a fetal death at 20+ week’s gestation—is a concept. A statistic. Each year, at least 23,000 stillbirths occur in the United States. It occurs in one out of every 160 pregnancies. Yet when these numbers become a reality in your own life, they take on a new meaning.

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  • Decolonising Sex Education

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    Dot-Mom  //  Guest Contributor  //  September 21, 2022  //  By Susie Jolly
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    We should be outraged by sexuality education’s colonialist connections. As a researcher and trainer based in the UK, I see how deeply blatant colonialist influences run in the field of sex education. The British empire was obsessed with the sexualities of their subjects and imagined their societies to be exotic licentious places where upper class British men could live out illicit fantasies. Yet, at the same time, these societies were deemed to be wells of immorality that needed Victorian moral education. These dual imaginaries were used to justify colonialism itself as a force to civilize non-western bodies and sexualities, and remain as ideas which echo in more contemporary discourses around controlling population and HIV.

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