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  • Early Interventions in Men’s and Boys’ Health and Well-Being Have Lifelong Effects

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    Dot-Mom  //  On the Beat  //  February 10, 2021  //  By Hannah Chosid
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    “How do we incorporate more men into the work that we’re doing?” said Dominick Shattuck, Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for Breakthrough ACTION at Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP), at a recent event hosted by the MenEngage Alliance. The event focused on interventions to meaningfully engage men and boys in health programming, and how “life course theory” can help determine the best timing for male engagement.

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  • In Humanitarian Settings, Addressing Gender-Based Violence is Paramount

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  February 3, 2021  //  By Sara Matthews
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    “One hundred thirty-seven women are killed by a family member every day,” said Beth Schlachter, Executive Director of Family Planning 2020. “That’s a staggering statistic.” She spoke at a recent Wilson Center event about gender-based violence (GBV) in conflict and humanitarian settings in partnership with CARE, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), Save the Children, and the Women’s Refugee Commission. The event was a part of a Wilson Center series recognizing the United Nation’s “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence” and commemorated our friend and colleague, Jennifer Schlecht.

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  • COVID-19 Adds to Challenges of Curbing Child Marriage

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    Africa in Transition  //  Dot-Mom  //  Guest Contributor  //  January 27, 2021  //  By Carol Guensburg
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    When Mwanahamisi Abdallah’s mother announced plans to marry her off to a stranger, the 14-year-old Tanzanian girl burst into tears. She had no desire to marry—especially after learning the man already had three wives. Remembering advice from a teacher, she phoned authorities to intervene. They blocked the wedding and eventually delivered Mwanahamisi from her village in southeastern Lindi region to a girls’ shelter in Dar es Salaam.

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  • What Does a Biden-Harris White House Mean for Women and Girls? Everything.

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    Dot-Mom  //  January 15, 2021  //  By Sarah Barnes
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    The significance of the Biden-Harris administration for the world’s women and girls cannot be overstated. The current status of women and girls is grim. The COVID-19 pandemic and four years of dangerous policies designed to strip women and girls of their reproductive and economic autonomy and punish them—first for their biology, and second for their gender—have slowed and even reversed decades of progress toward gender equity. Systemic racism and policies meant to further exclude and disenfranchise minority communities have targeted women of color with tragic results.

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  • Factor Housing into Maternal and Neonatal Health Policy

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  January 13, 2021  //  By Sara Matthews
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    The United States is facing a crucial moment, one in which more pregnant women are at risk of becoming housing insecure than at any other time in recent history. This leaves an unprecedented number of mothers and babies vulnerable to the associated adverse health risks.  Housing instability – which includes challenges ranging from struggles paying rent to chronic homelessness – harms maternal and neonatal health as much as smoking during pregnancy. The economic effects of COVID-19 threaten to exacerbate the adverse health outcomes associated with homelessness.

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  • Māori Midwives on the Power of Indigenous Birthing Practices

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  December 18, 2020  //  By Sara Matthews

    podcast photos_maori midwivesCamille Harris, Registered Māori Midwife, is unapologetic about her decision to study midwifery and practice exclusively with Māori families, in this week’s Friday Podcast. “It was always to serve my people,” she said. Both Harris and her professional partner, Registered Māori Midwife, Waimaire Onekawa, started their midwifery careers later in life with a clear dedication to Māori women in New Zealand. “And we just want to be able to give women—Māori women—and whanau [family], the love and care that we would hope to receive if we were the people being the recipients,” said Onekawa.

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  • Shaping a Maternal Mental Health Crisis Response to COVID-19

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  December 16, 2020  //  By Madhavi Roy, Paul Shetler Fast & Vicha Adri
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    As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths rise, women are experiencing more anxiety both during and after pregnancy. One-third of all mental health problems are associated with adverse childhood and community experiences—the pandemic is an adverse community experience being felt worldwide.

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  • Midwife-Delivered Interventions Could Provide Dramatic Benefits

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  December 11, 2020  //  By Hannah Chosid

    podcast photos_nsb1In a year that has presented enormous challenges, it is even more gratifying to present evidence that strengthens the importance of midwives as providers of essential sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and the impact they can have on maternal and neonatal mortality and stillbirths, said Anneka Knutsson, Chief of the SRH Branch at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) at a recent Wilson Center event, in partnership with UNFPA and Johnson & Johnson, to launch the Impact of Midwives study conducted by UNFPA, the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), and the World Health Organization (WHO) and published in The Lancet Global Health.

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