Myanmar: Improving Maternal and Childcare in the East IRIN, Monday, October 17, 2011 In conflict-afflicted eastern Myanmar, until recently obstetric care was often crude, unsterile and dangerous for both mother and child, health experts say. To address these problems, in 2005 several CBOs, the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins University, and the Global Health Access Program launched the Mobile Obstetric Medics (MOM) project - dramatically boosting access to care. |
Egypt and Tunisia: Women and the Arab Awakening - Now is the Time The Economist, Saturday, October 15, 2011The position of women in the Arab world has long been difficult. Amid the loud calls for democracy in the early days of the uprisings, little was said specifically about women's rights. But now that constitutions are being rewritten, many women in Egypt and Tunisia, whose revolutions are most advanced, hope to push their own liberation. |
Senegal: Curbs a Bloody Rite for Girls and Women The New York Times, Saturday, October 15, 2011The movement to end genital cutting is spreading in Senegal at a quickening pace through the very ties of family and ethnicity that used to entrench it. And a practice once seen as an immutable part of a girl's life in many ethnic groups and African nations is ebbing, though rarely at the pace or with the organized drive found in Senegal. |
Global: 2 Million Deaths a Year Attributed to Pollution from Indoor Cookstove Fires PBS, Thursday, October 13, 2011 Nearly two million deaths could be prevented each year by replacing cooking fires and inefficient, smoky stoves, reports a policy analysis by leaders from the National Institutes of Health published in Science Thursday.Smoke exposure inside the home can cause respiratory diseases, lung cancer and pneumonia. |
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