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  • Sustaining PEPFAR’s Success through Integration, Equity, and Inclusion

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  April 19, 2023  //  By Deekshita Ramanarayanan
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    It has been two decades since President George W. Bush launched the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief – or PEPFAR, and a recent Wilson Center event to celebrate the anniversary demonstrated that its impact as one of the most successful global public health programs is indisputable. Since its inception, PEPFAR has invested more than $100 billion in the global fight against HIV and AIDS, resulting in more than 25 million lives saved and millions of new infections prevented.

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  • Shaken to The Core: The Plight of Syrian Refugees After February’s Earthquake

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 10, 2023  //  By Muhammad Tahir
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    Madiha vaguely remembers her family fleeing war-torn Syria. But even a decade later, she still bursts into tears describing their midnight escape across the border to Turkey. She and her family were forced to flee after losing family members in a civil war in which they had no stake.

    Little did Madiha—who is now 11 years old—and her family know they would experience another monumental trauma a decade later. This time, it was a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked large swaths of southern Turkey on early February 6, 2023.

    The roof they built with their own hands collapsed over their heads, killing several of Madiha’s nieces and siblings. “A large piece of brick fell on my mother’s leg, but she luckily survived,” she said tearfully. 

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  • Pushing Back the Pushback: Addressing the Complexities of Gender and Migration

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    Dot-Mom  //  On the Beat  //  March 29, 2023  //  By Maanasa Chitti
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    “We must unite our efforts to push back the pushback,” said Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland, at a recent side event during the 67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67). Humanitarian crises and forced displacement increase pushback against women’s and girl’s human rights and safety. Jakobsdóttir called for global efforts to recognize this inequity and to fight for gender equality in humanitarian responses.

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  • USAID’s Revised Water and Conflict Toolkit

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 22, 2023  //  By Ekta Patel & Erika Weinthal
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    Links between water and conflict seem to crop up everywhere one looks these days. The Horn of Africa will soon face a sixth consecutive failed rainy season in 2023—its worst drought on record. Not only is this drought a consequence of global climate change, but it has also led to widespread food shortages and local civil conflicts. And over the past year in Ukraine, Russian troops have directly damaged that nation’s already vulnerable water systems, including pipelines, pumping stations, and treatment facilities. These repeated attacks on water infrastructure have not only undermined local livelihoods in Ukraine, but they have also polluted surface waters and threatened biodiversity.

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  • Old Dangers, New Modes: Climate Change and Human Trafficking

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    Guest Contributor  //  February 6, 2023  //  By Marissa Jordan & Noah Gordon
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    For thousands of years, natural factors like rainfall and temperature helped determine the fate of economies and societies. For thousands of years, humans also engaged in human trafficking and kept one another as enslaved people. But as human prosperity increased exponentially beginning in the 19th century, it may have seemed that such concerns were relics of the past.

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  • Mobile Clinics and Mental Health Care: The NGO Response to Ukraine’s Health Crises

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    New Security Broadcast  //  November 18, 2022  //  By Claire Doyle

    Thumbnail Podcast ImagesThe war in Ukraine is not only displacing millions, straining the economy, and ravaging infrastructure. It’s also creating a mounting health crisis. In this week’s New Security Broadcast, ECSP’s Director Lauren Risi hears from Ambassador Daniel Speckhard and Dr. Mariia Dolynska about the health impacts created by the war in Ukraine and what is still needed to strengthen the health system—as well as what one NGO is doing to deliver healthcare in the embattled nation.

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  • Cascading Impacts of the War in Ukraine: Mental, Maternal, and Newborn Health

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    Dot-Mom  //  July 20, 2022  //  By Sarah B. Barnes

    FILE - Medical workers hold newborn Alana close to her mother after a cesarean section at a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 11, 2022. Alana's mother had to be evacuated from another maternity hospital that was bombed by Russian forces and lost some of her toes. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

    This article was originally published as part of the summer 2022 issue of the Wilson Quarterly: Ripples of War.

    Ukraine and its people will feel the effects of the Russian invasion for years to come. More than 6 million refugees have left Ukraine, another 8 million Ukrainians are internally displaced. Among those most impacted are Ukraine’s women and girls, who have a greater chance of experiencing gender-based violence, exploitation, and trafficking. They also face escalated maternal and newborn mortality rates stemming from lack of services and diminished care, as well as injuries and trauma due to the ongoing conflict. Less visibly, Ukrainians are confronting severe emotional distress and trauma.

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  • Water Management in Armed Conflict: Improving Collaboration and Joint Knowledge

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 13, 2022  //  By Juliane Schillinger
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    Speaking at a session at the 2nd International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding in February, Guillaume Pierrehumbert, head of the Water and Habitat Unit of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called for “a comprehensive rethink of collective humanitarian action” to address the unprecedented civilian crises in protracted armed conflicts.

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