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Baltimore enlists doulas to help bring infant mortality rate down

Andrea K. McDaniels

August 01, 2017 |

The Baltimore Sun |

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Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

A program in Baltimore is putting 4 women through training to become doulas who will help low-income, minority mothers navigate their pregnancies and childbirth. Utilizing doulas leads to better health outcomes for mothers and their infants, and Baltimore has an infant mortality rate 1.3 times higher than the rest of Maryland.

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Modern clinic in Kenya's last frontier

Rebecca Mutiso

July 19, 2017 |

Mediamax Network |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Kenya

In remote areas of Kenya, health care is hard to access and medical professionals and technology have been hard to come by. A new partnership between the government, Phillips, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has resulted in a new health care centre with state of the art technology, health care training systems, and more personnel to better serve women and children.

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California decided it was tired of women bleeding to death in childbirth

Julia Belluz

June 29, 2017 |

Vox |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

The USA is seeing rising maternal mortality rates in recent years. It shows higher rates than most developed countries, in part due to the country's lack of attention to women's health. California is reversing this trend through their California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) which analyzes data and then uses it to make recommendations and "toolkits" for hospitals to be prepared should an emergency arise in childbirth.

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Gender equality key to development

André Forget

June 09, 2017 |

Anglican Journal |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Tanzania, Masasi

The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is working to implement maternal and newborn child health programs in East Africa. Though the project has incorporated a wide-range of initiatives, many of them have relied on a single underlying principle that has proven to be effective: the empowerment of local women.

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Ecuador's Push to Let Women Stand During Childbirth

Anna-Catherine Brigida

June 05, 2017 |

Bright Magazine |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Ecuador

A program in Ecuador invites indigenous parteras, or midwives, into state hospitals in order to accommodate and better provide services for indigenous women. After the program was implemented the child birth rate dropped from “zero deaths during childbirth, compared to 10 deaths over the previous four years.” It also won an award from the Pan American Health Organization in 2012 for reducing the mortality rate through culturally sensitive care.

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Spreading Plan C to End Pregnancy

Patrick Adams

April 27, 2017 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Access to safe abortions and pregnancy termination medications has been of intense debate and restriction. This article looks at campaigns to increase access to an under-recognized form of medication that can serve as a "plan-c" for women.

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Health workers create support network to north central Ohio mothers

Brittany Schock

April 25, 2017 |

Richland Source |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

Community Health Workers in Richmond County work to reduce barriers - including employment, education, smoking, food security or housing - that may contribute to the likelihood of infant mortality. Using the Community HUB Pathways Model to minimize significant sources of stress in a woman’s life, they are helping drive down infant mortality rates in Ohio, particularly for women and babies of color.

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Some States Are Making It Easier To Get Birth Control

Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

April 24, 2017 |

FiveThirtyEight |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Loma Linda, California

With the dismantling of the Affordable Care Act, the issues of birth control access and reproductive rights have become increasingly polarized and volatile. Some states are taking it upon themselves to improve access to birth control, without the federal mandate, through policies such as allowing pharmacists to re-prescribe certain types of birth control, and to distribute up to 12 months of birth control at a time, which has been proven in some cases to increase a woman's likelihood to use birth control, as it reduces costs and time for the patient.

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The Tiny Bracelet That Saves Newborns from Hypothermia

Priti Salian

April 12, 2017 |

Bright Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Bengaluru

The intensive, alert care low weight infants need is often complicated by overstressed parents and overstretched hospital workers. A bracelet that monitors an infants temperature--and gives an alert when the temperature falls to unsafe levels--provides valuable support to ensuring the safety of these vulnerable young lives.

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How Armenia Is Trying to Stop Sex-Selective Abortions

Nina Teggarty

April 07, 2017 |

News Deeply |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Armenia

In Armenia, sons are far more desired than daughters leading to a high prevalence of sex-selective abortions that is resulting in a shortage of girls. 'Save the Children' works with families to help them see how similar girls and boys are, in order to help decrease abortions.

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