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  • How to grapple with soaring world population? An answer from down south

    Nicola Davis

    October 10, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Botswana

    Botswana stands out for its rapidly falling fertility rate; a complex set of factors, including increased access to comprehensive education and contraception, is driving the falling rate. The country's family planning programs are far-reaching, providing services in even rural areas of Botswana, and giving women more control of their reproductive health and choices.

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  • Can medical outreaches for maternal health bridge the access gap in the Federal Capital Territory?

    Chibuike Alagboso

    October 09, 2018 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Gwagwalada, Federal Capital Territory

    Medical professionals travel to remote areas of Nigeria with little access to family planning or maternal health care to hand out resources such as condoms or birth control and to train villages' Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) on updated safe birth practices. The team, called the PeachAid Medical Initiative, has reached over 30,000 women and 400 TBAs through medical outreach to rural communities since 2015. The work at large is meant to address the high maternal death rate in Nigeria.

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  • What do a herd of goats, a few cattle, and a baby have in common? Find out

    Christabel Ligami

    October 02, 2018 |

    Bhekisisa |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Turkana

    Multi-purpose field clinics can offer a one-stop public health service for nomadic communities. In the northwest of Kenya, temporary Kimormor sites combine essential health services for nomadic families and their livestock. In a region where migration poses a constant challenge to public health and childhood nutrition, the Kimormor sites offer a range of services by brining family planning, vaccinations, as well as veterinary and other services to locations accessible to nomads and their livestock.

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  • Can American Men and Women Ever Really Be Equal?

    Irin Carmon

    September 27, 2018 |

    Time Magazine |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    Sweden has a reputation for being one of the most socially-progressive and gender-equal countries in the world. This article breaks down the different policies that Sweden has become so famous for and looks at its myriad of effects on citizens. Author Irin Carmon concludes that this case study tells us that working towards gender equality will be long and arduous and not always perfect, but entirely possible.

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  • Nutrition agents increase demand for CMAM services in Borno

    Chibuike Alagboso

    September 25, 2018 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Maiduguri, Borno State

    Being in a conflict zone, primary healthcare in the state of Borno in Nigeria has suffered in recent years. In response to the crisis, Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) centers provide Ready-To-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) to treat children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM). The centers also work in tandem with Community Nutrition Mobilizers (CNMs) to follow up with mothers to ensure that the children are taking the medicine, to educate them on malnutrition in children, and to offer other primary care provisions like immunizations.

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  • Alabama may have solutions to the nation's Black maternal health crisis

    Katherine Webb-Hehn

    September 24, 2018 |

    Scalawag |

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    Response Location: United States, Alabama

    In one of the worst states to have a pregnancy, midwives might be the answer. In Alabama, activists pushed for the re-legalization of professional midwifery. Now, midwifes in the state are providing care for mothers, and are hoping “to prevent many of the conditions that lead to unfavorable outcomes in the first place.” “The families who participate in this model are more satisfied, feel more empowered, feel more prepared for birth, initiate breastfeeding at higher rates and have fewer low-birth weight babies.”

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  • Banking on 'liquid gold': How breast milk banks are saving infant lives

    Soumya Satyajit

    September 21, 2018 |

    Citizen Matters |

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    Response Location: India

    When babies are born in less that ideal scenarios, such as prematurely, both mother and baby are often impacted by the stress of the situation, impacting the amount of milk a mother can produce. Breast milk banks aim to address this, however, by providing human breast milk donated by volunteers to mothers and babies in need.

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  • One-stop health shop for Kenyan pastoralists

    Christabel Ligami

    September 13, 2018 |

    The East African |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    In order to reach a pastoralist community with health services, a mobile health clinic called the Kimormor has been deployed in northern Kenya. Treating both people and livestock, the Kimormor has provided family planning, antenatal care, and child health services to this community.

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  • Maternal death rate lowered in California, but racial disparity remains

    Chloe Reichel

    September 11, 2018 |

    Journalist's Resource |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative brought a diverse group of people together to address maternal mortality by increasing education around preeclampsia and hemorrhage. The group tracked data and used their breadth—from analysts to government to clinicians—to effect change at scale. Over six years, they cut the maternal mortality rate nearly in half in the state.

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  • Maternity Care Gets a Racial Justice Focus

    A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez

    September 07, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Mamatoto Village is a maternal health group that offers services to women of color. The aim of the group is to address racial inequality in healthcare and level the playing field to give women of color access to services. Last year the group served almost 500 women, the vast majority of which gave birth vaginally and initiated breastfeeding.

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