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  • Community-managed Water Investments in Rural China: A Path for Financing WASH

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    China Environment Forum  //  Guest Contributor  //  August 5, 2021  //  By Jiayuan Wang
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    Better access to safe drinking water and sanitation around the world could prevent the deaths of 297,000 children aged under 5 years from diarrhea each year. Likewise, the risk of infection of other common infectious diseases including cholera, hepatitis A, typhoid, and most recently – the coronavirus, can be reduced by improving access to clean water and sanitation facilities. 

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  • Engaging Marginalized Groups is Essential to Achieving Universal Health Coverage

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  July 16, 2021  //  By Sara Matthews

    SRH UHC Podcast - 235 x 176Too often, many in my community are excluded from sexual and reproductive health services, said Ruth Morgan Thomas, co-founder and Global Coordinator of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, in today’s episode of Friday Podcasts. This episode features highlights from a recent Wilson Center and UNFPA event where Thomas and Zandile Simelane, an HIV Youth Advocate from Eswatini, address the barriers that their respective communities—sex workers and HIV positive youth—face in accessing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and universal health coverage (UHC).

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  • We Have to Put the Last Mile First: Ensuring Sexual and Reproductive Health for All

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  July 7, 2021  //  By Hannah Chosid
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    Whether marginalized populations, such as adolescents, LGBTQ+ people, migrant workers, and sex workers are included in health services can be a “litmus test” of our progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), said Sivananthi Thanenthiran, Executive Director of Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW). Thanenthiran spoke at a recent Wilson Center event with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research about the importance of engaging stakeholders in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) to achieve UHC for all. In SRH services, the most marginalized and most vulnerable populations are often left out, she said. When engaging stakeholders, representatives from these groups must be included to ensure equity in healthcare services.

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  • From Rhetoric to Response: Addressing Climate Security with International Development

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 14, 2021  //  By Daniel Abrahams
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    Over the past decade, our understanding of how climate change affects conflict and security has advanced considerably. Yet, how to best address the overlapping challenges of climate change, conflict, and human security remains an open question. In an article published in World Development, I address this topic by examining how climate security discourses inform development policy and, in turn, how the structures of development enable or constrain institutional capacity to address climate security. This research identifies not only the unique barriers the development sector must overcome, but also the ways in which the most common framings of climate change (i.e., as a threat multiplier) limit the scope for policy and programming.

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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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  • Ensuring Essential Health Care for Mothers and Newborns During the Pandemic

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    Africa in Transition  //  Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  Guest Contributor  //  March 24, 2021  //  By Koki Agarwal
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    Joyce Makasi, a young woman in Kambiti village, Kitui County, Kenya, went into labor with her second child one afternoon in December 2020. She had just enough money to hire a motorbike to take her to nearby Waita health center. At the facility, the clinical officer and nurse told her she would need a cesarean delivery. It wouldn’t be her first cesarean, but COVID-19 presented new obstacles.

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  • Why Water Conflict is Rising, Especially on the Local Level

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 2, 2021  //  By Peter Schwartzstein
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    This article originally appeared on the Center for Climate and Security.

    That future wars will be fought over water, rather than oil, has become something of a truism, particularly with regard to the Middle East. It’s also one that most water experts have refuted time and time and time again. But while this preference for cooperation over conflict may (and emphasis on may) remain true of interstate disputes, this blanket aversion to the ‘water wars’ narrative fails to account for the rash of other water-related hostilities that are erupting across many of the world’s drylands. As neither full-on warfare nor issues that necessarily resonate beyond specific, sometimes isolated areas, these ‘grey zone’ clashes don’t seem to be fully registering in the broader discussion of water conflicts. In failing to adequately account for the volume of localized violence, the world is probably chronically underestimating the extent to which water insecurity is already contributing to conflict.

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  • Redesigning Health Systems for Global Health Security

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    Africa in Transition  //  Covid-19  //  Guest Contributor  //  February 22, 2021  //  By Uzma Alam, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Mohammed Abdulaziz, Ambassador (ret.) Deborah R. Malac, John N. Nkengasong & Dr. Matshidiso R. Moeti
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    This article originally appeared on The Lancet Global Health.

    Africa was predicted to be hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, given its poor health systems. However, this outcome has not been the case. Despite the U.S. being the highest spender on health care globally, COVID-19 has shown that its primary care infrastructure is in much need of strengthening. But we should not mistake COVID-19 as the biggest pandemic of our time. If anything, it is only a dry run, with other epidemics brewing on the horizon. Therefore, if the global community is serious about epidemic preparedness, global health security, and protecting the most vulnerable, we need to redesign health systems for resilience. Africa’s lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as from concurrent outbreaks of cholera, Ebola virus disease, yellow fever, and chikungunya, could provide a roadmap.

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