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  • Samara Ferrara on How Midwifery Can Reduce Unnecessary Surgeries and Save Lives in Mexico

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  March 31, 2017  //  By Sean Peoples

    Samara-Ferrara-small“Midwives have the knowledge, midwives have the skills, and have the heart and compassion to serve mothers and babies in the most perfect way,” explains Samara Ferrara in this week’s podcast. But they often face demoralizing conditions, poor pay, and in some cases disdain from doctors.

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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
    ASHA1

    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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  • The Urban Disadvantage: Rethinking Maternal and Newborn Health Priorities

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  February 14, 2017  //  By Nancy Chong
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    Urbanization is changing the face of poverty and marginalization, and the maternal and newborn health field needs to change too, said a panel of experts at the Wilson Center on January 24.

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  • In Remembrance: Hans Rosling’s Incredible Presentations on Global Development Trends

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    Eye On  //  February 9, 2017  //  By Schuyler Null
    Rosling

    Hans Rosling, the Swedish statistician, global health advocate, and “edutainer,” passed away this week in Uppsala, according to his foundation, Gapminder.

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  • Joyce Banda on Reaching Girls Before Age 10, Balancing Tradition With Change, and More

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  January 10, 2017  //  By Schuyler Null & Francesca Cameron
    Matunduzi-School

    If you really want to fight the patriarchy, if you want to make a difference in girls’ lives, you have to reach them when they are young, says Joyce Banda.

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  • Mismatched Flood Control System Compounds Water Woes in Southern Bangladesh

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 3, 2017  //  By Nikita Sampath
    Kukumoni-Munda

    In Koyra Number 6, a coastal hamlet bordering the Sundarbans in southwestern Bangladesh, a group of men unload barrels of water from their trawlers – 50 drums holding 30 liters each. They announce their arrival by yelling. And word spreads. This is how this village gets their daily drinking water, from a town nine miles away.

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  • Reproductive Health Care in Crises Has Come a Long Way, Says Sandra Krause, But There’s More to Be Done

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  December 23, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    Krause-smallThere may be more women and girls at risk of maternal health complications in fragile and conflict-affected settings today, but attention to the issue is not new and the international community has made important strides over the last 20 years, says Sandra Krause, program director for reproductive health at Women’s Refugee Commission, in this week’s podcast.

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