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An Essential Handbook for Reproductive Global Health
›Dot-Mom // Guest Contributor // April 24, 2024 // By Cecilia Van Hollen & Nayantara Sheoran AppletonAs 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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ECSP Weekly Watch: April 15 – 19
›UNFPA’s State of World Population 2024 Report Highlights SRHR Inequalities (UNFPA)
Over the last 30 years, the world has made immense progress in improving sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for women and girls around the world. Since 1994, when governments agreed that SRHR was a cornerstone of international development at the Cairo International Conference on Population, rates of unintended pregnancies have fallen 20%, 162 countries have adopted anti-domestic violence laws, and maternal deaths have decreased by 34%.
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Humanity Beyond Borders
›“The health care challenges faced by refugees and displaced people are complex and multi-dimensional,” said John Thon Majok, Director of the Wilson Center’s Refugee and Forced Displacement Initiative (RAFDI). “This requires not only understanding the drivers of displacement but also analysis of the barriers to healthcare as well as innovative ways to address them.”
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International Day for Maternal Health and Rights: Promoting the Right to Health for Pregnant People Globally
›April 11 is the International Day for Maternal Health and Rights. Globally, 800 women die each day from preventable causes due to pregnancy and childbirth. Improving maternal health outcomes and preventing maternal deaths requires a human rights-based approach that protects a person’s right to survive childbirth, to access high-quality health care, to government accountability, to equity and non-discrimination when accessing care, and to family planning and contraception. Enshrining these rights for all pregnant people is key to meaningful progress towards the prevention of maternal deaths globally.
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NEW Global Health and Gender Policy Brief: Malaria and Most Vulnerable Populations
›Malaria is an immense global health challenge. In 2022, there were 249 million malaria cases, an increase of 5 million as compared to 2021, leading to 608,000 malaria deaths in 85 countries. Yet while these numbers increase, investment and attention to malaria in the past decade has stagnated—and even decreased in areas. Notably, the total spending to eradicate malaria in 2022 was $4.1 billion USD – just over half of the $7.8 billion USD needed to stay on track to reduce new malaria infections and mortality rates by 90% by 2030.
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Maternal Health: How Racial and Gender Discrimination Drive Maternal Mortality Rates
›The International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21 offers a significant opportunity to reflect on a key issue in maternal health: despite global progress over the past 20 years, maternal deaths are rising across the Americas. Why?
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From Sunset to a New Dawn: Sustaining Civil Society’s Voice on Safe Motherhood
›Maternal mortality continues to be one of the scourges in global health. The fact that women die as part of bringing life is an indictment against the overall status of women around the world, and underscores the failure to prioritize women, mothers, and children. Efforts to draw attention to the causes of maternal death and the solutions to maternal mortality abound, but they fail to get enough attention from the decisionmakers who establish health priorities and allocate resources that could actually make a difference.
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The Arc | Climate, Conflict, and Women’s Resilience: A Recent Women for Women International Report
›In today’s episode of “The Arc,” ECSP’s Angus Soderberg and Claire Doyle interview Nisha Singh and Kavin Mirteekhan from Women for Women International. We dive into the organization’s recent report, “Cultivating a more enabling environment: Strengthening women’s resilience in climate-vulnerable and conflict-affected communities,” to hear how women around the world are disproportionately impacted by conflict and climate shocks—and what we can learn from their solutions.
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