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  • More than a Seat at the Table: Engaging Adolescents to Protect their Health and Rights

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  November 8, 2018  //  By Elizabeth Wang
    Youth at the Table

    “Adolescence is a time to support young peoples’ access to information, to education, to skills and to services that can result in a healthy and safe transition into adulthood,” said Sarah Barnes, Project Director of the Maternal Health Initiative, at a recent Wilson Center event on engaging youth and protecting their sexual and reproductive health and rights. “It’s time to make adolescents a priority,” said Barnes.

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  • Too Little Too Late: Violence Disrupts Maternal Health Care in Conflict Settings

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    Dot-Mom  //  The Three Delays  //  August 27, 2018  //  By Yuval Cohen

    UNFPA-Baby“One of the first victims of war is the health care system itself,” said Marco Baldan, the chief war surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Violence directed at health facilities and workers is common in conflict, despite international laws protecting medical personnel, facilities, and transport vehicles during war.

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  • Driven to Care: Improving Transportation to Reach Maternal Health Care in Conflict Zones

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    Dot-Mom  //  The Three Delays  //  August 20, 2018  //  By Yuval Cohen

    Refugee-Woman-with-ChildHow much time passes between a laboring woman’s decision to seek care and her arrival at a health facility? Transportation for emergency obstetric care should be swift and timely, but for many refugees in the world’s conflict zones, it is not.

    An analysis of refugee maternal mortality in 10 countries found that transportation problems contributed to more maternal deaths outside of refugee camps, which tend to have better access to emergency transportation services.

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  • Rush Hour: Three Commutes, Three Stories

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    From the Wilson Center  //  August 16, 2018  //  By Rebecca Lorenzen
    Mexico-City-Traffic

    “The idea to make this film came from a very personal place,” said filmmaker Luciana Kaplan at a recent Wilson Center screening of her documentary Rush Hour, recalling how a woman who worked for her spent six hours a day on public transportation. “I have to make a film about this,” she said she told herself, “because this is a silent enemy that is attacking all of us in big cities.”

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  • From Day One: Malawi President Joyce Banda on Girls Ages 0-10

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    Dot-Mom  //  On the Beat  //  July 23, 2018  //  By Yuval Cohen
    Joyce Banda

    “Over 130 million girls around the world are not in school through no fault of their own,” said Her Excellency Joyce Banda, former president of the Republic of Malawi, at the launch of her new book, From Day One: Why Supporting Girls Aged O to 10 Is Critical to Change Africa’s Path, at the Center for Global Development.

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  • For India, Achieving the Next Generation of Maternal Health Goals Requires New Approaches

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  March 23, 2017  //  By Francesca Cameron
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    Achieving the next generation of maternal health goals in India, which accounts for almost 15 percent of maternal deaths around the world each year, will require innovative new approaches to stubborn problems.

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  • Midwives’ Voices, Midwives’ Realities: Results From the First Global Midwifery Survey

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  March 15, 2017  //  By Nancy Chong
    Sierra Leone midwife

    “Midwives play a vital role in the health care of mothers and babies,” said Samara Ferrara, a midwife from Mexico, at the Wilson Center on February 27. But in many parts of the world they face a confluence of stressors that make working conditions miserable: low and irregular pay; harassment and disrespect from both patients and doctors; and little supplies, training, or say in the policy dialogue about maternal health.

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  • Backdraft #4: Edward Carr on Climate Response, Motivations, and the Value of Ethnographic Research

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    Backdraft podcast  //  Friday Podcasts  //  March 10, 2017  //  By Lauren Herzer Risi

    Carr-smallUnintended consequences from climate interventions are often the result of not understanding decision-making at a granular enough level, says Edward Carr in this week’s “Backdraft” episode.

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