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  • Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act: Criminalization’s Impact on HIV and AIDS Response

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    Dot-Mom  //  Reading Radar  //  June 29, 2023  //  By Sophia DeLuca
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    Four months ago, the resident medical officer at the HIV and AIDS clinic in Kampala, Uganda reported that the clinic treated up to 50 patients a day. Now, the clinic is relatively empty, and supplies of antiretroviral therapy (ART) pile up, unused.

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  • Gender-Based Violence Continues to Impede Progress Towards Gender Equality

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    Dot-Mom  //  Reading Radar  //  November 30, 2022  //  By Alyssa Kumler
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    “COVID-19 and the backlash against women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights are further diminishing the outlook for gender equality,” states a recent report on the current progress toward gender equality across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Yet the new report also zeroes in on another factor that is diminish progress on gender equality: violence. The authors observe that “violence against women remains high, global health, climate and humanitarian crises have further increased risks of violence, especially for the most vulnerable women and girls, and women feel more unsafe than they did before the pandemic.”

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  • Ecological Threats, Resilience and Peace: A New Assessment of Hotspots

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    Guest Contributor  //  Reading Radar  //  November 7, 2022  //  By Marisa O. Ensor
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    Which nations are most at risk of catastrophic outcomes due to intensifying ecological threats? The third edition of the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP)’s Ecological Threat Report (ETR)—released on October 20, 2022— applies a lens of societal resilience to predict the hotspots most likely to suffer from instability and conflict in the future, and provides projections of ongoing trends to 2050.

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  • Sex Workers Face Heightened Risks during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  Reading Radar  //  February 23, 2022  //  By Deekshita Ramanarayanan
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    “The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified pre-existing inequalities and vulnerabilities,” writes the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in a recent report on the impact of COVID-19 on sex workers in East and Southern Africa. The pandemic has had an impact on people in marginalized communities around the world, but for sex workers globally, “the impact on livelihoods, human rights and health has been devastating, leaving many struggling to survive,” states the report.

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  • COVID-19 Costs: Declining Maternal and Child Nutrition in Low-and Middle-Income Countries

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  Reading Radar  //  February 9, 2022  //  By Claire Hubley
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    “The pandemic and related global economic recession are severe setbacks to already insufficient progress towards meeting the global nutrition targets set for 2025 for stunting, wasting, maternal anemia and breastfeeding,” write the authors of a 2021 study examining the effects of COVID-19 on child and maternal health and nutrition. Adequate nutrition in the perinatal period is essential for healthy mothers and babies, and COVID-19-induced poverty and disruptions to global supply chains have compromised the food security of people around the world, mostly in low-to-middle-income countries (LMICs).

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  • Has Maternal Mortality Risen During the COVID-19 Pandemic? The Need For More Data

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  Reading Radar  //  January 28, 2022  //  By Chanel Lee
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    Since its onset, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal mortality has been a question of great concern. And yet, few empirical attempts have been made to capture the potentially profound impact of the pandemic on maternal deaths, particularly in resource-limited settings.

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  • Navigating the Arctic’s 7Cs

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    Navigating the Poles  //  Reading Radar  //  December 3, 2021  //  By Iris Thatcher
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    “It seems incumbent upon the Arctic policy community to identify the most pressing issues to address in the region while simultaneously, effectively and creatively communicating their complexities and interrelated nature,” writes Mike Sfraga, founding director of the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute, in a new Wilson Center monograph, Navigating the Arctic’s 7Cs. Policy priorities in the Arctic boil down to climate, commodities, commerce, connectivity, communities, cooperation, and competition, writes Sfraga. The “7Cs” provides a framework that policymakers can use when engaging in Arctic affairs.

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  • 16DaysCampaign Calls to End Femicide: Research Shows Women in Perinatal Period at Risk

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    Dot-Mom  //  Reading Radar  //  December 1, 2021  //  By Shariq Farooqi

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    “Femicide is an important, but often unreported, cause of maternal mortality. This research documents the immediate need for universal abuse assessment of all pregnant women,” write the authors of the self-declared first study to report a definite link between abuse during pregnancy and attempted/completed femicide—the gender related killing of women. This study was published in 2002.

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