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  • Confronting Pronatalism is Essential for Reproductive Justice and Ecological Sustainability

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 26, 2024  //  By Nandita Bajaj

    Pronatalism, the push for women to have more children, has elbowed its way into prominence in public discourse. In the United States, cultural and institutional pressures on women to bear children are articulated in various ways, from negative portrayals of women who don’t consider having a child a viable choice for themselves, to a burgeoning Silicon Valley subculture that advocates having “tons of kids” to save the world, to policy proposals that would further restrict reproductive choice or limit the voting power of the childless. The stigmatization of people without children and the recent rise in contemporary pronatalism is a global phenomenon.

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  • NEW: Global Health and Gender Policy Brief: Drivers of Global Maternal Mortality

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    Dot-Mom  //  October 2, 2024  //  By Maternal Health Initiative Staff

    Each day, almost 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. A maternal death occurs every two minutes. Maternal mortality is defined as the death of a woman from complications of pregnancy or childbirth that occur during the pregnancy or within 6 weeks after the pregnancy ends.*

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  • Sexuality Censorship: Brazilian Sex Education Suppression Hurts LGBTQ Youth

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    Dot-Mom  //  July 3, 2024  //  By Bella Wexler
     

    Brazil’s federally mandated, comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is under fire. A report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) found that over the past decade, conservative groups have put forth more than 200 legislative proposals with the express intent to ban sexual orientation and gender education in primary and secondary schools.

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  • An Essential Handbook for Reproductive Global Health

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    Dot-Mom  //  Guest Contributor  //  April 24, 2024  //  By Cecilia Van Hollen & Nayantara Sheoran Appleton

    As the world becomes increasingly interconnected through travel, communication, and information, interdisciplinary approaches to address global and reproductive health issues are crucial. And as the politics of reproductive healthcare are shifting in uneven ways across the globe, the need for deep understanding of local contexts within a globalized world is ever more vital. Our recently published, co-edited Wiley Blackwell handbook, A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology provides a sweeping overview of studies of reproduction from an anthropologically informed lens with a commitment to interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of medical anthropology, feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS), global and public health, and critical analyses of both gender and sexuality and of  race and ethnicity.

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  • Connecting the Dots: The Interplay between Education and Sexual and Reproductive Health

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    Dot-Mom  //  Guest Contributor  //  August 30, 2023  //  By Maniza Habib

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    The importance of quality education for girls cannot be understated. And when global thought leaders, policymakers, gender advocates, and researchers convened in Rwanda in July at the Women Deliver 2023 Conference, it was a chance to discuss a topic increasingly at the forefront of global conversation: How can quality education advance gender equality and empowerment worldwide?

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  • Midwives Lead the Way: The 5th Global Midwifery Symposium

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    Dot-Mom  //  June 7, 2023  //  By Sarah B. Barnes
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    Midwives play a central role in maternal and newborn health. So, it is fitting that their efforts took the spotlight at a two-day event – The 5th Global Midwifery Symposium – held during the first ever International Maternal and Newborn Health Conference (IMNHC) in May 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa.

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  • Top 5 Dot-Mom Guest Contributor Posts in 2022

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    Dot-Mom  //  What You Are Reading  //  January 18, 2023  //  By Deekshita Ramanarayanan
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    In 2022, the Dot-Mom column published several pieces from expert guest authors from the greater maternal and reproductive health community. In our top read guest contributor piece of the year, Susie Jolly examined the role of colonialism in sexuality education globally. Jolly highlighted examples where sexual health knowledge is built on unethical medical research carried out on racialized people, such as the study of untreated syphilis among Black men in the United States. Sexuality educators, especially those placed in the Global North, have a responsibility to work to decolonize their work. Jolly suggests supporting resources led by marginalized people, critically examining colonialism’s influence in the understanding of sexuality, and shifting the dynamics of who decides on content to lend more weight to non-Western expertise and young people learning from their own experiences.

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  • Environmentalists Need To Talk About Population Growth. Here’s How.

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    Guest Contributor  //  October 3, 2022  //  By Sarah Baillie

    Ida Royani, Jamilah Volunteer provide counseling to Risni Apriani a pregnant mother about what to do during pregnancy in Bojongmanik Sub-District, Lebak, Banten Indonesia. (Oscar Siagian/ USAID-JALIN)

    On November 15, the world population is projected to reach 8 billion people. As we approach that milestone, there’s no denying that our rapidly growing human population also places extraordinary pressure on the environment. The human population has doubled in the last 50 years, while wildlife populations have been cut in half.

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