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  • COVID-19 Causes Lags in Childhood Vaccinations–“The Time to Catch Up is Now”

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  Reading Radar  //  May 21, 2021  //  By Sara Matthews
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    More than a year after it began, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt essential health services, including routine childhood immunizations, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) second pulse survey. The survey asked countries to report the level of disruption in their jurisdictions to 63 health services during the previous three months. 135 countries and territories from across the six WHO regions responded with data covering October 2020 to February 2021.

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  • COVID-19 Causes Dire Disruptions in Maternal, Child, and Reproductive Health Services

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  Reading Radar  //  March 31, 2021  //  By Sara Matthews
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    “The pandemic has undoubtedly resulted in more deaths and more illness – particularly for the most vulnerable women and children,” write the authors of a new United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) report examining the direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Asia. The report found that the disruptions in several essential health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic had a “substantial impact” on maternal and child mortality in the region.

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  • COVID-19’s Pregnancy Paradox: Greater Disease Risk but Lower Vaccine Priority

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  Reading Radar  //  March 10, 2021  //  By Sara Matthews

    “Greater attention to pregnant patients as a unique population at higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection sequelae, is critical to preventing maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality,” write the authors of a study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology examining morbidity and mortality among pregnant women with COVID-19 in Washington state. The study found “markedly higher” hospitalization and fatality rates among this group compared with similarly-aged non-pregnant individuals.

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  • New U.S. Global Fragility Strategy Recognizes Environmental Issues as Key to Stability

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    Reading Radar  //  January 14, 2021  //  By Lauren Herzer Risi
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    A new Global Fragility Strategy, released late last year by the U.S. Department of State, signals a growing awareness of the role that environmental issues play in fragility, conflict, and peace. According to the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance, in the last five years alone, “the U.S. government has spent $30 billion in 15 of the most fragile countries in the world.” These “large-scale U.S. stabilization efforts after 9/11 have cost billions of dollars but failed to produce intended results,” writes Devex’s Teresa Welsh. As a result, Congress passed into law in 2019 the Global Fragility Act, legislation that directed the Department of State to lead the development of a new 10-year Global Fragility Strategy that sets out a new U.S approach to conflict prevention and stabilization in fragile contexts.

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  • A Dangerous Dichotomy: Women’s Paid and Unpaid Work During COVID-19

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  Reading Radar  //  November 11, 2020  //  By Sara Matthews
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    “While the global crisis has increased demand for research, such opportunities have created inequalities and distortion in the scientific community,” write the authors of a recent Social Science Research Network (SSRN) study that examines the gendered impact of COVID-19 in academia. The study finds that COVID-19 has disproportionately penalized the scientific productivity of female academics.

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  • Many Companies Struggle to Comply with Conflict Mineral Reporting Rules

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    Reading Radar  //  September 25, 2020  //  By Cindy Zhou
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    “The exploitation of the mining and trade of conflict minerals in the eastern DRC [Democratic Republic of the Congo] has contributed to instability, violence, displacement of people, and severe human rights abuses,” says the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in its annual report, Conflict Minerals: Actions Needed to Assess Progress Addressing Armed Groups’ Exploitation of Minerals. The report examines a sample of filings from 1,083 companies that submitted conflict mineral disclosures required by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2019.

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  • Preventing the Next Pandemic: Zoonotic Diseases and Future Outbreaks

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    Covid-19  //  Reading Radar  //  July 7, 2020  //  By Amanda King

    Report-CoverTo recover from the devastating impacts of COVID-19, we will need to understand the risks and environmental factors that caused the novel coronavirus and other zoonotic diseases to emerge in the first place, according to a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme and the International Livestock Research Institute. The report, Preventing the Next Pandemic – Zoonotic Diseases and How to Break the Chain of Transmission, examines the root causes of the COVID-19 pandemic and other zoonotic diseases. It also explores the complex linkages between biological and non-living factors that impact our global ecosystem and spread diseases.

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  • Exposure to Air Pollutants and Heat Made Worse by Climate Change Impact Black Mothers the Most

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    Dot-Mom  //  Reading Radar  //  June 26, 2020  //  By Leah Emanuel
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    Environmental exposures exacerbated by climate change are contributing to adverse pregnancy outcomes across the United States, with a disproportionate impact on Black women. A new study published in JAMA Network Open draws concrete connections between exposure to air pollution, ozone, and high temperatures during pregnancy and the likelihood of adverse pregnancy outcomes—premature birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth.

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