• Concern over the issue of coerced sex among adolescent women has been elevated by a growing body of research-much of it from developed countries-that has reported significant associations between coerced sex and a range of negative health and reproductive health outcomes for women of reproductive age. (guttmacher.org)
  • I'm writing to urge you to oppose any attempt to ban reproductive-health services in the new healthcare system. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • I am concerned about the repeated efforts of some senators to use healthcare reform as an opportunity to restrict access to abortion and family planning. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • Reproductive-health care should be treated like any other healthcare service in the new system - not singled out for exclusion on political grounds. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • We will improve access to healthcare for young Victorians by establishing 9 new sexual and reproductive health hubs. (vic.gov.au)
  • When women have control over decisions about their own healthcare, their health is much improved. (quakerearthcare.org)
  • In some countries women have gained empowerment, like Nepal where from 2001 to 2011 the percentage of women who reported making decisions on their own healthcare went from 27 percent to 66 percent. (quakerearthcare.org)
  • WASHINGTON, DC - The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health celebrates Oregon's proactive efforts to improve healthcare for women and immigrant children. (latinainstitute.org)
  • I applaud the bravery of the physicians and patients bringing light to the heartbreaking situations they have faced and I will continue to advocate for comprehensive reproductive healthcare access in every state. (amwa-doc.org)
  • Young people in different countries have reported being turned away from SRH services, humiliated and shamed by healthcare providers for engaging and/or thinking of engaging in sexual activity, and being accused of "immorality" and eroding "traditional" values. (womenlobby.org)
  • The center welcomes volunteers and interns as a potential opportunity for UMaine students interested in expanding their knowledge of healthcare and reproductive care. (mainecampus.com)
  • She is involved in developing clinical guidance for healthcare providers caring for pregnant women and women of reproductive age with possible exposure to Zika virus. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. Oduyebo is also a subject matter expert, and provides clinical consultation to healthcare providers and state, tribal, local and territorial health departments through the CDC Zika Pregnancy Hotline. (cdc.gov)
  • The alliance collaborates with individuals and organizations that share its vision for reproductive justice and maternal health equity. (reproductiverights.org)
  • Our passion and vision for reproductive justice is what is going to move us forward. (latinainstitute.org)
  • Preventing unintended pregnancy in HIV-positive women can significantly reduce maternal-to-child HIV transmission as well as improve the woman's overall health. (hindawi.com)
  • Preventing unplanned or mistimed pregnancy allows a woman with HIV to optimize her own health and has the potential to decrease maternal-to-child transmission of HIV. (hindawi.com)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that approximately 90% of children living with HIV acquired the infection perinatally-during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Rabbis in our community offer private and compassionate pastoral care to women who seek out their spiritual guidance on a range of matters related to their reproductive health and pregnancy-related care, including abortion, thereby enabling a woman to consider the rich teachings of the Jewish tradition while making her own private moral decision. (jewishpublicaffairs.org)
  • The recommendations outline how to provide quality family planning services, which include contraceptive services, pregnancy testing and counseling, helping clients achieve pregnancy, basic infertility services, preconception health services, and sexually transmitted disease services. (cdc.gov)
  • The report provides recommendations for how to help prevent and achieve pregnancy, emphasizes offering a full range of contraceptive methods for persons seeking to prevent pregnancy, highlights the special needs of adolescent clients, and encourages the use of the family planning visit to provide selected preventive health services for women, in accordance with the recommendations for women issued by the Institute of Medicine and adopted by HHS. (cdc.gov)
  • they were more likely to report their current or most recent pregnancy as unintended (among ever-pregnant women) and to report one or more genital tract symptoms. (guttmacher.org)
  • Lawsuits in Idaho, Tennessee, and Oklahoma highlight significant gaps in the medical care of pregnant women where restrictive state bans may limit treatment for a pregnancy complications, as practitioners are fearful of violating the law. (amwa-doc.org)
  • The American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) stands with the American Medical Association and Indiana University Health in support of Caitlin Bernard, MD, MS who provided necessary abortion care to a 10-year-old Ohio girl whose pregnancy was the result of rape. (amwa-doc.org)
  • An estimated 303,000 women , primarily in developing countries, die yearly from complications due to pregnancy, childbirth and abortion, and those are the leading causes of death among adolescent girls globally. (truthout.org)
  • Upon having an unwanted pregnancy, youth may also be reluctant or afraid of accessing SRH services, for fear of experiencing further shame, discrimination, and public exposure. (womenlobby.org)
  • The international community has a moral imperative to secure women's and girls' SRHR, for which it is essential that all young people have access to comprehensive and youth-friendly SRH services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, encompassing accessible, confidential, sensitive, and high-quality procedures for pregnancy termination, free of marital and/or parental consent requirements. (womenlobby.org)
  • Forced pregnancy violates young people's human rights and places their physical and mental health and wellbeing, as well as those of their families and communities at great risk. (womenlobby.org)
  • This ruling not only harmed access to abortions, but pregnancy services, contraception, gender-affirming care, and related care for people with chronic conditions as well. (healthlaw.org)
  • There is also a clear link between anemia during pregnancy and negative health outcomes among infants. (taskforce.org)
  • Indeed, increased access to a wide range of reproductive health services is quite literally a life and death issue in places where complications from pregnancy and delivery, unsafe abortion, and HIV are the leading causes of illness and death among women in the prime of their lives. (ips-dc.org)
  • On February 1 following an emergency meeting of experts, WHO declared that clusters of birth defects associated with Zika infection during pregnancy constitute a " public health emergency of international concern " requiring a stepped up, coordinated global response. (kff.org)
  • most notably, the Minister of Health of El Salvador, a country which is experiencing a rise in suspected Zika cases, has recommended delaying pregnancy until 2018 . (kff.org)
  • Such calls to postpone pregnancy raise serious issues, because many women across the region have limited access to contraceptives and other reproductive health services , experience high rates of sexual violence , and face other reproductive health decision-making barriers that can result in unintended pregnancies. (kff.org)
  • In fact, some of the Zika-affected countries have among the strictest abortion laws in the world, potentially presenting women who have an unintended pregnancy with a dangerous catch-22. (kff.org)
  • For those women who face an unintended pregnancy and pregnant women concerned they have been exposed to Zika virus, their options may be quite limited. (kff.org)
  • According to the group, over 215 million women in developing countries that want to either avoid pregnancy or space-out pregnancies do not have access to modern contraceptives. (mongabay.com)
  • Thousands of women in Hawaii are in need of publicly-funded family planning services, contraception services and education, pregnancy-related services, prenatal care, and birth-related services. (hawaii.gov)
  • In 2010, sixteen thousand women in Hawaii experienced an unintended pregnancy, which can carry enormous social and economic costs to both individual families and to the State. (hawaii.gov)
  • Many women in Hawaii, however, remain unaware of the public programs available to provide them with contraception, health education and counseling, family planning, prenatal care, pregnancy-related, and birth-related services. (hawaii.gov)
  • Because family planning decisions are time sensitive and care early in pregnancy is important, Hawaii must make every possible effort to advise women of all available reproductive health programs. (hawaii.gov)
  • In Hawaii, low-income women can receive immediate access to free or low-cost comprehensive family planning services and pregnancy-related care through Med-QUEST and the department of health's family planning program. (hawaii.gov)
  • Requiring facilities that provide pregnancy- or family planning-related services to provide accurate health information and to inform clients of the availability of and enrollment procedures for reproductive health programs will help ensure that all women in the State can quickly obtain the information and services that they need to make and implement informed, timely, and personally appropriate reproductive health decisions. (hawaii.gov)
  • Hawaii has public programs that provide immediate free or low-cost access to comprehensive family planning services, including, but not limited to, all FDA-approved methods of contraception and pregnancy-related services for eligible women. (hawaii.gov)
  • d) No limited service pregnancy center that collects health information from any individual seeking or receiving its services shall disclose any individually identifiable health information to any other person, entity, or organization without express written authorization from the subject individual. (hawaii.gov)
  • However, service provision was challenging according to the providers, and barriers like lack of access to essential drugs and equipment, few providers willing to conduct abortions late in pregnancy and unclear guidelines were commonly experienced. (bvsalud.org)
  • I'd like to welcome you to today's COCA call, Updated Interim Zika Clinical Guidance for Pregnant Women in Data on Contraceptive Use to Decrease Zika-Affected Pregnancy. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. Oduyebo is also involved with the US Zika Pregnancy Registry, and provides technical assistance to support state, tribal, local and territorial health departments collecting information about pregnancy and infant outcomes following laboratory evidence of confirmed or possible Zika virus infection during pregnancy. (cdc.gov)
  • Consequently, a pregnancy test is mandatory in the workup of women of childbearing age who have lower abdominal pain. (medscape.com)
  • A baby starts to develop its reproductive organs between weeks 4 and 5 of pregnancy. (medlineplus.gov)
  • PEPFAR, primarily implemented through USAID, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, emphasizes improving the health of women, newborns and children. (truthout.org)
  • In addition to handing out prophylactics and information flyers in English, Spanish and Russian, Leon follows up with women after they are released from treatment centers. (womensenews.org)
  • The Mabel Wadsworth Center is one of only 14 health centers in the nation that are independently-run non-profit centers in the United States. (mainecampus.com)
  • The MMWR series of publications is published by the Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia 30333. (cdc.gov)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened a meeting of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC), National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) on November 18-19, 2004, in Atlanta, Georgia. (cdc.gov)
  • Proposed strategies to enhance cervical cancer screening were: sensitization of the population, recruitment of more competent staff, testing centers should be located closed to the target population, less embarrassing screening methods should be used, health care workers should demonstrate positive attitudes during care, female staff should manage the screening units, screening cost should be subsidized. (who.int)
  • In 2009, in the context of discussions about changes to a law that would reduce the scope for legal terminations in Mexico, Dr. Sandra Peniche, founder and director of Humanitarian Sexual and Reproductive Health Services, received death threats. (amnestyusa.org)
  • The Guterres published a statement recalling Osotimehin's efforts to promote and advance sexual and reproductive health services for families around the world and especially in most vulnerable communities. (egypttoday.com)
  • FALLS CHURCH, Virginia - The Defense Health Agency (DHA) announced that TRICARE beneficiaries in 14 counties in New Jersey may receive emergency prescription refills now through Oct. 10, 2023, due to flooding. (health.mil)
  • The representation gap - even more significant for women of color - poses a huge barrier to ensuring policies that support state-level abortion access WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 28, 2023 - In a newly released report, Democracy & Abortion. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 8, 2023 - A new study from the National Partnership for Women & Families finds that Black-led community initiatives may be vital to solving the Black maternal health crisis. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Here we are, approaching the end of 2023, and women are still without abortion rights nationwide, working parents. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Ipas, in association with The Daily Star, organised a roundtable titled "Bangladesh Family Planning Programme: What women and girls want matters" on July 10, 2023. (thedailystar.net)
  • A medical approach is not sufficient to implement effective infectious disease prevention strategies in women, which would offset these numbers. (cdc.gov)
  • As a consequence, a large decrease in deaths of women would be expected if infectious diseases decreased through effective prevention strategies. (cdc.gov)
  • 3) The global agenda for preventing communicable diseases among women rests on two premises, namely, that understanding women's health in developing countries, particularly the health risks they face, is important for instituting appropriate interventions to address women's specific health needs, and that women's participation in health promotion and disease prevention is key to the health of families and communities worldwide. (cdc.gov)
  • The Global Health Sector Strategy currently being developed by WHO would identify key priorities for health sector action in HIV/AIDS and focus attention on the delivery of complementary prevention and care interventions, working through public and private sectors. (who.int)
  • As an example, she cites the Amethyst Women's Project Inc., an outreach program that distributes information on HIV/AIDS prevention and provides information on available counseling services to drug addicts, sex workers and homeless women in Coney Island. (womensenews.org)
  • Therefore, swift action, combined with collective responsibility and a commitment to education and prevention, is crucial in tackling this public health challenge. (fijisun.com.fj)
  • The objectives of the support are in line with the priorities of the Ethiopian government, and the immediate outcomes of the support will include improved competencies of health and care workers related to infection prevention and control and priority basic packages of health services. (who.int)
  • In October 1989, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) conducted a survey of state health department personnel regarding programs, policies, and public health systems that stress the prevention and control of the use of tobacco. (cdc.gov)
  • Results: We identify two gaps in current efforts: 1) limited attention to prevention of opioid misuse among reproductive-age women, and 2) lack of policies addressing opioid misuse among postpartum women. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. Henry Falk will serve as Director of the Coordinating Center for Environmental Health and Injury Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • The initiatives linked prevention efforts and clinical services and engaged more teens in evidence-based programs. (cdc.gov)
  • Nevertheless, it is one of the most preventable and cancer prevention services through advocacy and curable forms of cancer if diagnosed early and effectively providing information about cervical cancer prevention managed. (who.int)
  • The manuscripts address a variety of subjects ranging from the health of women at different stages of life, sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence, non-communicable chronic diseases, infectious diseases, and mental and occupational health, to adapting quality health services to meet promotion, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation needs during the different stages of life and in several regional contexts. (bvsalud.org)
  • WHO was committed to working with several intergovernmental bodies such as the European Commission and the Heads of State of the Organization of African Unity to encourage the provision of extra resources for action at country level in the next 10 years, and to support their long-term commitment to achieving better health outcomes for the poor. (who.int)
  • The World Health Organization defines domestic violence as "the range of sexually, psychologically and physically coercive acts used against adult and adolescent women by current or former male intimate partners. (guttmacher.org)
  • The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health is the only national reproductive justice organization dedicated to building Latina power to advance health, dignity, and justice for 28 million Latinas, their families, and communities in the United States through leadership development, community mobilization, policy advocacy, and strategic communications. (latinainstitute.org)
  • I felt that women needed an organization that represented just us," says de Varona, a weekly commentator for the Sporting News Radio. (womensenews.org)
  • She was subsequently forced to lower the visibility of her work, reducing the impact of her efforts in the southeastern region of Mexico, where the organization was the only one of its kind providing services from an SRR perspective. (amnestyusa.org)
  • CWW is helping countries design and implement programs and is working with the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop new guidelines for STH services. (taskforce.org)
  • As Co-Founder and President of the Feminist Majority Foundation and former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Eleanor Smeal has led efforts for the economic, political, and social equality and empowerment of women worldwide for over three decades. (feminist.org)
  • Active Zika transmission is now reported in over 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as several other territories , and the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts it could affect 4 million people across the Americas this year alone . (kff.org)
  • Even before the association between Zika infection and births defects was confirmed, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the CDC and other health authorities had issued guidance to pregnant women and those seeking to become pregnant to consider delaying travel to Zika-affected areas , and for those living in countries with widespread Zika transmission to avoid exposure to mosquito bites . (kff.org)
  • Interventions to improve adolescent women's reproductive health should directly address the issue of sexual coercion. (guttmacher.org)
  • Once the new WHO policy has been published, CWW will support national programs to scale up and effectively and efficiently deliver interventions to women of reproductive age. (taskforce.org)
  • While health management information systems continue to develop, periodic health facility surveys like the Service Provision Assessment (SPA) provide information to monitor progress and target interventions. (ennonline.net)
  • It is no longer enough to measure the coverage of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition (RMNCHN) interventions without considering whether the services provided by facilities are adequate. (ennonline.net)
  • This paper presents an initial attempt to select a short list of indicators that measure readiness for and provision of highly effective interventions and proposes to create a quality of care index (QOCI) - one singular measure of services built from data that are available in SPA. (ennonline.net)
  • It is reported that the literature on the scientific basis for PCC is fragmented, and most publications discuss evidence of one or a few interventions, with the majority of reports considering PCC for specific populations, such as women with chronic health problems and couples with infertility. (bvsalud.org)
  • Many clinical interventions have been identified that could be offered to women before conception to help avoid adverse outcomes. (bvsalud.org)
  • In February 2017, a federal district court in Texas blocked the State from implementing the measure, which would have denied nearly 11,000 Texas Medicaid patients access to health care services at Planned Parenthood. (reproductiverights.org)
  • Today, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed into law the Reproductive Health Equity Act of 2017 (House Bill 3391). (latinainstitute.org)
  • Thanks to the Reproductive Health Equity Act of 2017, Oregon is ensuring that all residents - regardless of income, type of insurance, citizenship status, or gender identity and expression - can decide when and whether to become a parent. (latinainstitute.org)
  • The newly unveiled Senate health care bill intended to repeal the Affordable Care Act has a name: the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017. (typepad.com)
  • Success will only be achieved when coupled with behavioral changes and a breakdown of social barriers that restrict women. (cdc.gov)
  • The Guide also describes barriers and protections to accessing reproductive and sexual health services in Medicaid and other publicly funded reproductive and sexual health programs. (healthlaw.org)
  • In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic upended access to care while also paving the way for policymakers to test new flexibilities, such as telehealth policies that helped address long-standing barriers to health access. (healthlaw.org)
  • The most common barriers to care include long delays in providing services, unnecessary referrals to other clinics, demands for spousal permission contrary to law, financial barriers, and in some cases outright denial of care. (disabled-world.com)
  • As a direct result of these barriers, women and girls in Argentina often cannot make independent decisions about their health, and many face unwanted or unhealthy pregnancies as a result. (disabled-world.com)
  • Women and girls with disabilities face all the same barriers as women without disabilities, and then some," Vivanco said. (disabled-world.com)
  • We also discuss barriers to accessing care for women who misuse opioids, including provider shortages (e.g., too few addiction medicine specialists accept pregnant women or Medicaid beneficiaries as patients), logistical barriers (e.g., lack of transportation, child care) , stigma, and fear of legal consequences. (cdc.gov)
  • Conclusions: As policymakers pursue strategies to address the opioid epidemic, the unique needs of pregnant and postpartum women and barriers to treatment should be addressed. (cdc.gov)
  • CONCLUSIONS: Second-trimester abortion providers faced severe barriers and ethical dilemmas pushing their moral threshold and medical risk-taking in efforts to deliver second-trimester abortions to vulnerable women in need of the service. (bvsalud.org)
  • Effort is needed to minimize health system barriers and improve guidelines and support for second-trimester abortion providers in order to increase access and quality of second-trimester abortion services in Ethiopia. (bvsalud.org)
  • The barriers forcing women into second trimester abortions also need to be addressed. (bvsalud.org)
  • Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › Courts of Appeals › Third Circuit › 1991 › Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania,reproductive Health and Counseling Center Women's He. (justia.com)
  • In a "friend of the court" brief filed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Black Mamas Matter Alliance and its co-signers outline how a Texas measure to deny Medicaid coverage for services provided by Planned Parenthood would exacerbate already stark racial disparities in women's ability to access maternal and reproductive health care in the state. (reproductiverights.org)
  • The brief submitted today outlines the crucial role Planned Parenthood plays in creating healthy outcomes for low-income women and women of color, and how denying Medicaid patients access to these services will only increase the extreme gaps in care that contribute to of Texas' maternal health crisis. (reproductiverights.org)
  • Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventive Health Services, et al. (reproductiverights.org)
  • challenges Texas's most recent attempt to "defund" Planned Parenthood by denying Medicaid patients the right to their preferred health care provider if that provider is Planned Parenthood. (reproductiverights.org)
  • Right now in the United States, women's sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) are being aggressively restricted by new state laws, while defunding threats are plaguing health care providers like Planned Parenthood, and this week the Supreme Court heard arguments in Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt , a case that has serious implications about equal access to abortion and other health services. (amnestyusa.org)
  • 3) Manage nutrition for sick children, pregnant and lactating mothers, and other women of reproductive age. (who.int)
  • 5) Promote utilisation of antenatal and postnatal care services among all pregnant and lactating mothers to monitor child growth, and the health and nutrition status of both the mother and the child. (who.int)
  • 2) Advocate and seek solutions for reducing workload for all women, especially pregnant women and lactating mothers. (who.int)
  • This was evident in 2020, when after the implementation of an electronic community health information system (eCHIS), all of Aleltu's pregnant women accessed and received RMNCH services. (jsi.com)
  • In Latin America, while we see more news about the Zika virus and the potential dangers to pregnant women, many countries continue to severely restrict access to abortion. (amnestyusa.org)
  • Photograph taken outside the Constitutional Chamber of El Salvador's Supreme Court of Justice as a decision was being made about a pregnant woman, Beatriz and her appeal for access to a therapeutic abortion (2013). (amnestyusa.org)
  • The bill read that 'any act committed by the pregnant woman' or her doctor wouldn't apply in any second-degree murder, manslaughter, or negligent homicide cases , according to Slate. (typepad.com)
  • New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu is expected to sign the bill into law--without granting pregnant women the right to murder--going into effect January 1, 2018. (typepad.com)
  • The statement also praised Osotimehin's work in advancing the Cairo Program of Action on Population and development 1994 that was adopted by 179 countries and recognized for the first time that women have the right to control their reproductive and sexual health and to choose whether to become pregnant. (egypttoday.com)
  • Health care providers once prescribed this medicine to pregnant women to prevent miscarriage and early labor. (medlineplus.gov)
  • According to the Defense Health Board's November 2020 report Active Duty Women's Health Care Services , women account for 17% - more than one in six - of active-duty personnel, totaling approximately 225,000 women across all military branches. (health.mil)
  • Uneétude descriptive, transversale portant sur les patientes traitées en radiothérapie à l'Hôpital Général de Douala pour cancer du col de l'utérus a été réalisée d'octobre 2020 à janvier 2021.Résultats. (bvsalud.org)
  • A descriptive cross over study of women treated by radiotherapy at the Douala General Hospital from October 2020 to January 2021 was conducted. (bvsalud.org)
  • Methods: this was a retrospective cross sectional descriptive study of the records of women admitted in the gynecological ward in FUTHO from January 2020 to November 2022. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Jewish values that undergird these issues, such as privacy, respect, dignity, and women's autonomy and moral agency, are fundamental to our deep interest in matters of reproductive choice. (jewishpublicaffairs.org)
  • Anti-abortion politicians' long-standing efforts to pack the courts resulted in an array of harmful rulings on matters of reproductive and sexual health and justice. (healthlaw.org)
  • We support efforts to strengthen and safeguard the spirit and impact of Roe v. Wade, including private choices by women of all ages, incomes, geographic regions, citizenship or immigration status, and sources of insurance and their equal access to high quality, safe, private, confidential and comprehensive reproductive health services. (jewishpublicaffairs.org)
  • It provides examples of shortcomings that European states must address in particular as regards the rights to life, health, privacy, non-discrimination as well as the right to be free from torture and ill-treatment, with a particular focus on comprehensive sexuality education, modern contraception, safe and legal abortion care, and quality maternal health care. (coe.int)
  • As access to both modern methods of contraception and antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) expands, women with HIV enter the largely uncharted territory of potential drug interactions. (hindawi.com)
  • Approximately one-third of maternal deaths could be prevented if all women had access to effective contraception. (truthout.org)
  • Gender-inclusive care includes the right to have access to safe, stigma-free reproductive health care, such as abortion care, contraception and STI testing. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • To understand more about where these issues are likely to be more acute, we examine available country-level data on access to contraception, abortion policies, and the US government's foreign assistance and global health presence in Zika-affected countries. (kff.org)
  • The 53-page report, "Illusions of Care: Lack of Accountability for Reproductive Rights in Argentina," documents the many obstacles women and girls face in getting the reproductive health care services to which they are entitled, such as contraception, voluntary sterilization procedures, and abortion after rape. (disabled-world.com)
  • Some doctors just don't think women with visual or hearing disabilities, have sexual relationships or can remember to take their contraception. (disabled-world.com)
  • Despite national encouragement for Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) methods such as implants and Intrauterine devices (IUDs), only 3% of women opt for these services. (thedailystar.net)
  • The classic high-risk patient is a menstruating woman younger than 25 years who has multiple sex partners, does not use contraception, and lives in an area with a high prevalence of sexually transmitted disease (STD). (medscape.com)
  • In turn, adolescents and young women aged 15-24 account for 40% of all unsafe abortions worldwide, and three million unsafe abortions occur every year among this age group. (womenlobby.org)
  • 3] Compared to older groups, moreover, adolescents are more likely to delay undertaking an abortion, resort to unskilled persons to perform it, use dangerous methods, or put off accessing health services when complications arise. (womenlobby.org)
  • The agency issued a statement saying that Osotimehin was a respected leader for his efforts to provide essential health care to women and adolescents around the world especially for the poorest and most disadvantaged. (egypttoday.com)
  • Equal attention should be given to both elderly women and adolescents in the reproductive age group. (thedailystar.net)
  • National-level data are limited regarding confidentiality- visit has been associated previously with higher reported deliv- related issues and the use of sexually transmitted disease (STD) ery of sexual health services ( 5 ) and has been suggested by the services for adolescents and young adults. (cdc.gov)
  • Receipt of adolescents and young adults and examines that association a sexual risk assessment in the past 12 months was defined as with the receipt of STD services. (cdc.gov)
  • HIV-positive women should be offered a full range of hormonal contraceptive options, with conscientious counseling about possible reduced efficacy of COCs and the contraceptive implant when taken with ARVs. (hindawi.com)
  • Secular business entities are artificial legal bodies and do not possess religious exercise rights that entitle them to deny their employees legally mandated insurance coverage for some or all contraceptive services. (jewishpublicaffairs.org)
  • 9 Other relevant work has documented a reduced likelihood of contraceptive use among women who have prior or current exposure to physical or sexual abuse by an intimate partner, or who are afraid of such violence. (guttmacher.org)
  • One way to measure access to reproductive health services is to look at the use of contraceptives, as indicated by the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR). (kff.org)
  • In addition, such averages do not take into account the contraceptive method mix available to women, which in some cases may be limited. (kff.org)
  • Of these, all but Nicaragua and Paraguay report that in 2015, contraceptive commodity stockouts were a problem at either the service delivery point level or central level, indicating ongoing issues with access. (kff.org)
  • Still by working with national efforts, the UNFA has helped contraceptive use expand exponentially in some poor countries, including Madagascar and Niger. (mongabay.com)
  • Among the 64% of women who use contraceptive methods, the majority rely on short-acting and hormone-dependent options. (thedailystar.net)
  • Contraceptive use in the Region planning supplies and services is increasing throughout the Region in part because of the rise in the number of One of the ways to reduce maternal and infant mortality women of reproductive age and increasing use of modern and morbidity in a cost-effective manner is birth control. (who.int)
  • However, despite the efforts made, the evidence suggests that the prevalence of contraceptive use is low in the East- ern Mediterranean Region. (who.int)
  • In 2014, The Center for Reproductive Rights and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective began a partnership to raise awareness about human rights and racial disparities in U.S. maternal health. (reproductiverights.org)
  • Wherever possible, we also highlight best practices, policy recommendations, advocacy tips, and legal strategies to strengthen existing programs and address reproductive and sexual health disparities. (healthlaw.org)
  • The lack of disaggregated health data, for example, continues to conceal disparities in areas such as deaths from cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and traffic accidents. (bvsalud.org)
  • The debate about female workers' health soon went beyond an earlier concern with just their reproductive organs and functions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Developmental disorders of the female reproductive tract are problems in the reproductive organs of a baby girl. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Providing reproductive health services to women living with HIV is crucial to improving their overall health. (hindawi.com)
  • This year's theme is "Invest in women: Accelerate progress", a call which is crucial that we embrace during these times of uncertainty. (who.int)
  • Helping overcome the specific health care obstacles servicewomen encounter is crucial to ensuring the readiness, health, and well-being of the military. (health.mil)
  • Health workers play a crucial role in granting or denying access to these services, yet little is known about their experiences. (bvsalud.org)
  • Family planning is lows families to plan the desired number of children and crucial for the health of women and their families, and birth spacing for women of reproductive age. (who.int)
  • In 2018, few women in the Aleltu District of Ethiopia 's Oromia Region sought or received reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) services from their local health facilities. (jsi.com)
  • We provide a broad range of services to the public and private health sectors to strengthen health systems around the United States. (jsi.com)
  • Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. (quakerearthcare.org)
  • Through this agreement, Canada will provide WHO a grant amounting to 9.9 million Canadian dollars to strengthen the primary health care capacity to deliver essential health services, particularly for women, girls and vulnerable populations, while maintaining an effective response to COVID-19 to avoid additional preventable sickness and death among the Ethiopian population. (who.int)
  • The remaining population of Ethiopia are indirect beneficiaries, benefiting from the efforts to strengthen both the federal and regional health systems, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services. (who.int)
  • eliminate discrimination in laws, policies and practices and guarantee equality for all women in the enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health and rights. (coe.int)
  • As Director of the Women's Rights project she brilliantly argued many cases against the gender discrimination that was operating in both subtle and blatant ways, sometimes hidden in laws that ostensibly "protected "women. (drexel.edu)
  • Gender inequality, discrimination and restrictive gender norms affect health through multiple interrelated pathways and potentiate and compound the effects of racism, classism, and homophobia. (drexel.edu)
  • Sauerbrey opposed the Convention on the Right of the Child and the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. (feminist.org)
  • The wages of Native women are driven down by a number of factors that they are likely to encounter in the workplace and labor market, including gender and racial discrimination, workplace harassment, job segregation and a lack of workplace policies that. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Access to quality health care has long been out of reach for many LGBTQ people due to medical bias and discrimination. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Recently, the Trump administration gutted the Health Care Rights Law (Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act), which protects people from suffering discrimination in health care. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Under section 1557, people are protected from discrimination because of their race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability in certain health programs or activities. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • It also seeks to allow discrimination based on someone's reproductive health history or decision to have an abortion. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Women and girls are still faced with challenges including discrimination and violence. (lu.se)
  • At the continental level, the Maputo Protocol has been instrumental in the elimination of discrimination a gainst Women including harmful practices. (lu.se)
  • States amending their laws to eliminate discrimination against women while others enacting new legislation to conform with the spirit of Maputo Protocol. (lu.se)
  • Women and girls who are marginalised are now gaining pace and have become ambassadors of positive change to do away with discrimination against women. (lu.se)
  • Mama Africa, I know how proud you are of your dearest Tanzania, apart from criminalising Female Genital Mutilation, Tanzania is making strides and has been able to reduce the percentage of FGM from 18% to 10% countrywide and embrace men's and boys' engagement against discrimination against women. (lu.se)
  • Women's health is often emphasized in the context of infant and child health and family health as women are rightly perceived to be primary care takers of children, spouses, and parents. (drexel.edu)
  • Wise Health for Women Warriors pulls experts from across the MHS's Women and Infant Clinical Community to answer the most frequently asked questions that military providers have about women's health. (health.mil)
  • Researchers also use PRAMS data to investigate emerging reproductive health issues, while state and local governments use PRAMS data to plan and review their programs and policies for reducing maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. (cdc.gov)
  • We need to better understand the multitude of factors affecting maternal health and its connections to fetal and infant health, which may be driving recent increases in preterm birth. (cdc.gov)
  • Our work focuses on multidisciplinary, gender-sensitive development approaches to improve quality, access, and equity within health systems worldwide. (jsi.com)
  • Laws and policies that promote equity (including education and leave policies) can make a real difference in population health. (drexel.edu)
  • The brief was filed on behalf of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, the Afiya Center, Black Women's Health Imperative, the National Birth Equity Collaborative, Sistersong: The National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, and Women With a Vision. (reproductiverights.org)
  • It's a matter of health equity and making health services accessible to those that need them most. (taskforce.org)
  • This entry was posted in Determinantes Sociales , Equidad , Género and tagged Women's Health by Editor Equity/Equidad - CG . (bvsalud.org)
  • 4) Integrate the management of severe and moderate acute malnutrition into routine health services. (who.int)
  • Whether it's how to organise a temporary fishery closure to catalyse community engagement in marine conservation or how to work holistically and integrate reproductive health services with such initiatives to enhance women's participation in local environmental management efforts, Blue Ventures is dedicated to supporting our partners to build on their experiences. (blueventures.org)
  • The BSC received a report on NCEH/ATSDR's proposal to integrate social and behavioral sciences (SBS) into its environmental health programs and activities. (cdc.gov)
  • When the Global Gag Rule was in effect, countless women were condemned to illegal and unsafe abortion , organizations' free-speech rights were trampled upon, and their advocacy efforts were crippled," said Nancy Northup , president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. (reproductiverights.org)
  • The Black Mamas Matter Alliance is a Black women-led cross-sectoral alliance that works to improve Black maternal health outcomes through advocacy, research, and culture shift activities. (reproductiverights.org)
  • We select topics that have a direct impact on women in medicine and/or the outcomes of our patients in keeping with our mission and may act as a focus for our advocacy and education efforts. (amwa-doc.org)
  • The foundation advocates equal access and participation for women and girls in sports and fitness and provides education, advocacy, research and leadership programs to ensure women's success. (womensenews.org)
  • The center's mission statement is, "Providing a feminist model focused on sexual and reproductive health through education, advocacy, and clinical services. (mainecampus.com)
  • Dr. Osotimehin was admired globally for his leadership of the UN Population Fund and for his forceful advocacy for the world's women and girls in particular," said Secretary-General Guterres in a statement. (egypttoday.com)
  • Black women are at the center of the maternal mortality crisis in Texas and across the United States, where a history of denying Black women the resources and opportunities that support healthy pregnancies has resulted in a maternal mortality rate four times higher than among white women. (reproductiverights.org)
  • takes a look at rights activists in Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay, documenting cases where these defenders are compared to criminals and their reputations smeared for disseminating SRR information, for supporting the termination of pregnancies of child rape victims and for aiding women who face obstetric emergencies. (amnestyusa.org)
  • 1] As a result of various intersecting factors,[2] young people in the Global South, particularly young women and girls, often have little or no access to SRH information and services, and experience unintended or unwanted pregnancies. (womenlobby.org)
  • In July, the ministry announced its intention to make sure that abortions are carried out for women and girls whose lives or health are threatened by their pregnancies, or who have been raped. (disabled-world.com)
  • Recent urban health surveys indicate a rise of approximately 6% in teenage pregnancies in non-slum areas. (thedailystar.net)
  • Whether we are working to improve maternal mortality surveillance, prevent teen and unintended pregnancies, or building local epidemiology capacity to improve the health of women, children and families, we will continue to work hand in hand with the CDC Office of Women's Health to protect and promote the health of all women and girls for years to come. (cdc.gov)
  • Mediterranean Region in the 21st century and access to pregnancies are widespread in the Region, placing a these services during the COVID-19 pandemic. (who.int)
  • While maternal middle-income countries reported that about 1.4 million mortality rates have been decreasing in the Region over unwanted pregnancies might have occurred as a result the past 25 years, they are still high when compared with of the disruptions to health care delivery caused by COV- global trends. (who.int)
  • As physicians and public health practitioners, we know that firearm injuries are preventable with responsible gun safety legislation. (amwa-doc.org)
  • The DHB report also found that servicewomen often lack access to - and even awareness of - products and services for self-diagnosis and self-care of treatable and preventable women's health issues, particularly in operational environments. (health.mil)
  • As the use of health facilities along the continuum of care for women and children increases globally, efforts are needed to focus on the provision of effective, high-quality care across services to end preventable maternal and child morbidity and death. (ennonline.net)
  • Notable gains include a significant decline in preventable deaths and increased life expectancy for women, wider access to contraceptives, improved fertility control, better prenatal care, and earlier detection of breast and cervical cancer. (bvsalud.org)
  • We support adequately funded and fully accessible family planning programs that provide comprehensive and medically accurate reproductive and sexual health education and the full range of health care services, including birth control and abortion services. (jewishpublicaffairs.org)
  • Stereotypes abound: women are believed to have less heart disease and more mental health problems, it is claimed that they overuse health care services, and generally complain more about their health than men. (drexel.edu)
  • Justice Ginsburg's major health related contributions include her support of access to abortion and reproductive health care services for women. (drexel.edu)
  • In May, the National Health Ministry created a free call-in number to answer questions about where to find reproductive health care services and register complaints. (disabled-world.com)
  • The purpose of this Act is to ensure that women in Hawaii are able to make personal reproductive health decisions with full and accurate information regarding their rights to access the full range of health care services that are available. (hawaii.gov)
  • To apply online for medical insurance coverage, that will cover the full range of family planning and prenatal care services, go to mybenefits.hawaii.gov. (hawaii.gov)
  • The goal of the Uganda Nutrition Action Plan is to reduce malnutrition levels among women of reproductive age, infants and young children from 2011 through 2016 and beyond. (who.int)
  • Strategy 1.1: Promote access and utilisation of nutrition and health services to all women of reproductive age, infants, and young children. (who.int)
  • 3) Address detrimental food taboos and norms that impair nutrition of women, infants, and young children. (who.int)
  • providing sexually transmitted disease (STD) screening and treatment services to prevent tubal infertility and improve the health of women, men, and infants. (cdc.gov)
  • The state-by-state breakdown of the number of women, infants, and children at risk of losing critical nutrition assistance totaled more than 6.6 million. (amwa-doc.org)
  • We use these data to identify women and infants at high risk for health problems, to monitor changes in health status, and to measure progress towards goals in improving the health of mothers and infants. (cdc.gov)
  • Preterm birth rates are going in the wrong direction and need continued attention to ensure that past progress is not lost and that outcomes continue to improve for women and infants. (cdc.gov)
  • Typically, poorer women and women in rural areas have much less access to contraceptives , and are likely to be most at risk for Zika infection as well. (kff.org)
  • Studies have shown that education for women and access to contraceptives are key to tackling over-population. (mongabay.com)
  • MEDIA ADVISORY) - The Center for Reproductive Rights today filed an amicus brief in a federal appeals court on behalf of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance and a coalition of reproductive justice groups who argue that Texas' efforts to deny access to Planned Parenthood's services for Medicaid patients will disproportionately harm Black women's maternal health. (reproductiverights.org)
  • The Guide is designed to familiarize readers with the basics of the Medicaid program and highlight features that support reproductive and sexual health. (healthlaw.org)
  • The ACA brought substantial changes to the Medicaid program and the entire health care system, including the modes of access to health coverage and the benefits that must be covered. (healthlaw.org)
  • The Guide provides a brief overview of the Medicaid program, and explains the complex eligibility categories and requirements for the program with a focus on those categories that affect people seeking reproductive and sexual health care. (healthlaw.org)
  • The Guide also details the various reproductive and sexual health services available to Medicaid enrollees. (healthlaw.org)
  • The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) has launched a five-part webinar series entitled "Advancing Reproductive and Sexual Health in Medicaid. (healthlaw.org)
  • Other studies from developed countries have reported a significant link between physical or sexual abuse among reproductive-age women and a range of gynecological problems, including vaginal bleeding, pain during intercourse, chronic pelvic pain, urinary tract infection and medically treated pelvic inflammatory disease. (guttmacher.org)
  • Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is an infectious and inflammatory disorder of the upper female genital tract, including the uterus, fallopian tubes, and adjacent pelvic structures. (medscape.com)
  • The reproductive tract develops close to the urinary tract and kidneys. (medlineplus.gov)
  • As a result, developmental problems in the female reproductive tract sometimes occur with problems in other areas. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Prior to his work with UNFPA, he held senior positions in Nigeria, including the country's Minister of Health. (egypttoday.com)
  • The Service Provision Assessment (SPA) is a health facility survey that provides a comprehensive overview of a country's health service delivery. (ennonline.net)
  • Supporters generally think of fetal homicide laws as providing an avenue for women to press charges if their unborn children are killed in an incident such as a car crash or violent assault. (typepad.com)
  • Fetal homicide laws, they argue, can be construed to punish women who miscarry or are suspected of inducing an abortion. (typepad.com)
  • After the age of 40, traditional family planning methods are used by 31% of married women, increasing to 36% for the 45-49 age group. (thedailystar.net)
  • Encouraging the use of IUDs or permanent methods can promote overall well-being, including reproductive health. (thedailystar.net)
  • METHODS: A qualitative study with 13 in-depth semi-structured interviews with 16 health workers directly involved in providing second-trimester abortions, this included obstetrician and gynaecologist specialists and residents, general practitioners, nurses, and midwives. (bvsalud.org)
  • Methods --The estimates are based on medical abstract data collected through topics of interest in public health (3-7) the National Hospital Discharge Survey for 1995. (cdc.gov)
  • As a rule, women have been viewed as the vehicles through which specific goals, such as family planning and child survival, could be achieved, rather than as the primary beneficiaries of or the partners in development programs. (cdc.gov)
  • 1) Promote male involvement in family health services and in food security and nutrition programmes. (who.int)
  • Anti-choice extremists at the Family Research Council are launching an outrageous media and lobbying campaign claiming that Congress' health-care reform bills will deny seniors the medical care they need in order to pay for abortion. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • PRESS RELEASE) Pushing back against recent efforts by opponents of reproductive rights to reimpose the Global Gag Rule, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that the Center for Reproductive Rights says will protect U.S.-supported family planning groups overseas against politicized attacks. (reproductiverights.org)
  • The Global Gag Rule prohibits family planning groups based overseas from discussing or providing abortion -related services, even if they use their own money. (reproductiverights.org)
  • Representative Lowey has introduced a bill that is vital to holding the line against purely ideological attacks that restrict, if not completely cut off, the availability of family-planning services in communities overseas. (reproductiverights.org)
  • Because USAID is the leading global funder of family planning, from 2001 to 2009 the Global Gag Rule forced a number of organizations to forgo U.S. funding and either scale back their services or close down. (reproductiverights.org)
  • The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) has a strong interest in the subject of reproductive health including family planning and abortion - a subject extensively addressed in Jewish law and practice. (jewishpublicaffairs.org)
  • Equal protection under the law, freedom of religious expression, and the separation of religion and state have provided a modern cultural overlay to our Jewish community's unique understanding of reproductive freedom, including access to family planning and abortion. (jewishpublicaffairs.org)
  • The primary audience for this report is all current or potential providers of family planning services, including those working in service sites that are dedicated to family planning service delivery as well as private and public providers of more comprehensive primary care. (cdc.gov)
  • This report can assist primary care providers in offering family planning services that will help women, men, and couples achieve their desired number and spacing of children and increase the likelihood that those children are born healthy. (cdc.gov)
  • Family planning services can help address these and other public health challenges by providing education, counseling, and medical services ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • This would worsen an already dire situation in Texas, where lawmakers hostile to women's rights have spent years dismantling access to essential family planning services while passing increasingly restrictive laws designed to shut down women's health care providers. (reproductiverights.org)
  • This bill ensures that Oregonians, regardless of income, citizenship status, gender identity or type of insurance, have access to the full range of preventive reproductive health services, including family planning, abortion, and postpartum care. (latinainstitute.org)
  • Some $600 million in family planning aid is affected, as is other spending slated for global health. (truthout.org)
  • The Trump administration has expanded the policy's reach, broadening it to encompass all foreign health care providers that receive US funding rather than only those that get family planning dollars. (truthout.org)
  • An annual study from the Kaiser Family Foundation reports premiums for employer-sponsored health coverage rose nine percent for family plans and eight percent for individual ones. (democracynow.org)
  • The historical tension between individual needs and demographic goals created a striking paradox that persists today: Family planning services were and are desperately needed by women seeking to control their fertility safely and effectively. (ips-dc.org)
  • Rather than promoting long-term political stability, some of 7008's restrictions run counter to this recommendation by disrupting social programs that have played critical roles in advancing the age-structural transition - specifically, programs that improve access and quality of family planning and other reproductive health services, efforts that augment girls' educational attainment, and activities that advance women's autonomy and rights. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Leading business owners and managers recognize that every worker will at some point need time off to attend to health or family issues. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • In addition to her success in working with women in remote locations, Wadsworth was the first official president of the Family Planning Association of Maine and given the Maryann Hartman Award, and a Doctorate in Humane Letters from UMaine. (mainecampus.com)
  • The statement also referred to Osotimehin's work on advocating for family planning, women's education, children's health and action on HIV/AIDS. (egypttoday.com)
  • A UN meeting last month said that to meet the needs of the world's women, the developing world needs a secure supply of contraceptives and voluntary family planning initiatives. (mongabay.com)
  • The Family Planning Program should target this population, including both married and unmarried women. (thedailystar.net)
  • Family planning efforts should focus not only on slum areas but also on other vulnerable groups residing outside these areas in urban regions. (thedailystar.net)
  • RMNCH indicators covered five services - family planning, antenatal care (ANC), delivery care, immunisation and child curative care. (ennonline.net)
  • She completed medical school at Oregon Health & Science University, and then both her OB-GYN residency and a fellowship in family planning at Emory University. (cdc.gov)
  • Even women who live in countries where abortion is legal often face obstacles to obtaining safe abortions, thanks, in part, to the United States. (truthout.org)
  • Trump framed his new order as " Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance ," but it's unlikely to reduce the number of abortions performed in poor countries. (truthout.org)
  • At the same time, certain topics that were considered taboo have become more visible, such as domestic violence, femicide, and health care for women having abortions […] Evaluations following the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo and recent assessments of the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals have shown both progress and persisting inequalities in women's health status overall and in women's access to quality health services in particular. (bvsalud.org)
  • Minister for Health and Medical Services Dr Atonio Lalabalavu reinforced Government's commitment to addressing the escalating HIV crisis in Fiji. (fijisun.com.fj)
  • RESULTS: The providers recognized the critical need for second-trimester abortion services and were motivated by their empathy towards women who often sought care late due to marginalisation and poverty making it difficult to access abortion before the second trimester. (bvsalud.org)
  • An examination of health policies over the last 2 decades in most of the Americas illustrated the following points: 1) Women's health, in and of itself, rarely has been at the forefront of international development programs or national health planning and policies. (cdc.gov)
  • This means we are thinking critically about how our policies, programs and services meet the different needs of women, men and gender diverse people so we can develop solutions that benefit everyone. (vic.gov.au)
  • Maternal and child health programs are a hallmark of efforts to improve health globally. (drexel.edu)
  • AMWA urges Congress to find consensus on legislation that will avert a government shutdown and preserve essential funding to vital health programs providing aid to the most vulnerable. (amwa-doc.org)
  • These worms rob humans of valuable nutrients, and for women and girls, that loss of nutrients is felt doubly in child and maternal health because of our biological makeup," said Cara Tupps, CWW's Associate Director of Programs. (taskforce.org)
  • For many countries prioritizing women of reproductive age will mean reshaping programs. (taskforce.org)
  • This survey provided detailed data associated with state tobacco-use control programs and their essential components (e.g., budgets, planning, coalitions, surveillance systems, smoking cessation programs, educational activities, legislative actions, and health department policies). (cdc.gov)
  • The ASTHO survey data may be used to help plan and evaluate state health department programs as part of an effort to prevent chronic diseases related to tobacco use. (cdc.gov)
  • Public programs providing insurance coverage and direct services for reproductive health care and counseling to eligible, low-income women are currently available through the department of health and department of human services. (hawaii.gov)
  • Providers who contract with these programs are able to immediately enroll patients in these programs at the time of a health center visit. (hawaii.gov)
  • MCHEP focuses on promoting and improving the health and well-being of women, children, and families by building capacity at state, local, and tribal levels and applying sound epidemiologic research and scientific information to maternal and child health programs and policies. (cdc.gov)
  • for amicus curiae, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, New Jersey Coalition for Battered Women, Women's Coalition of St. Croix, Virgin Islands, Families in Transition Center of Milford, Del. (justia.com)
  • The Center has been vigorously combating the gag rule since 2001 and supported the effort in the House to introduce the Global Democracy Promotion Act. (reproductiverights.org)
  • The Center for Reproductive Rights respectfully submits the following testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance in strong opposition. (reproductiverights.org)
  • As a digital health tool that automates community health data to ensure the availability of and accessibility to quality and timely data for stakeholders, eCHIS allows health workers to enhance referral linkages between the health post and health center while upgrading the functions of health extension workers (HEWs). (jsi.com)
  • The brief was filed by Hillary Schneller and Pilar Herrero of the Center for Reproductive Rights and Caroline K. Simons and Excylyn J. Hardin-Smith of Fish &, Richardson P.C., who provided pro bono counsel to the Center for Reproductive Rights on this matter. (reproductiverights.org)
  • In the case of Executive Director Susana Chávez of the Peruvian NGO, Center for the Promotion and Defense of Sexual and Reproductive Rights (PROMSEX), erroneous comments made by a Congressman in a 2015 news article was enough to get the Public Prosecutor's Office to summon her to an investigation into a complaint that she allegedly advocated abortion in the book Let's talk about abortion and Misoprostol . (amnestyusa.org)
  • Reproductive rights and reproductive health services historically center around cisgender women - but these services are also needed by transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming individuals as well. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • The center is a health clinic facility for both men and women, specializing in reproductive care. (mainecampus.com)
  • The health clinic is recognized state-wide for a variety of reasons, but especially for the fact that it became the first center in Maine to provide vasectomies. (mainecampus.com)
  • In addition to their health services, the Mabel Wadsworth Center provides public outreach and education in an effort toward ending that stigma. (mainecampus.com)
  • The survey has been conducted and for a variety of activities by annually by the National Center for Health Statistics since 1965. (cdc.gov)
  • Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) categories. (cdc.gov)
  • Far from its origins as an illness of homosexual men, HIV/AIDS is increasingly affecting women around the world: in 2008, women made up nearly half of the global population of those infected with HIV (15.7 million women, 33.4 million total) [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • A central concern was addressing the challenge of strengthening the health system's response to HIV/AIDS. (who.int)
  • Women compose 51 percent of the people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. (truthout.org)
  • 2. How does the US support global efforts to fight and treat HIV/AIDS? (truthout.org)
  • Despite gender equality being at the centre of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development Goals , not much has been done to advance the rights of women and girls globally. (lu.se)
  • Twenty years later, the Maputo Protocol has been hailed as the most progressive instrument on the rights women and girls globally. (lu.se)
  • Globally, more than 270,000 women die of cervical at a late stage, which makes management difficult (WHO, cancer, where the majority are residents of low- and 2021). (who.int)
  • And while the premise of cutting funds to UNFPA is concern for women's rights, the administration and its conservative allies in Congress are working through the legislative and appropriations process and through more covert tactics in a number of countries to undermine the very health services on which millions of women depend for basic care. (ips-dc.org)
  • She has repeatedly asserted that "reproductive health services" is "code" for abortion, and headed the Bush administration's effort to undermine the Beijing Platform for Action, an agreement between 189 countries to safeguard women's rights. (feminist.org)
  • It would undermine women's equality and force women and girls to share private, intimate spaces with men who identify as female, in addition to denying women fair competition in sports. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Alabama's Reproductive Health Services clinic - the only abortion clinic left in Montgomery, Alabama - needs your help to pay for security improvements and additional security costs. (feminist.org)
  • Stand shoulder to shoulder with this clinic and its health care providers by sending a donation. (feminist.org)
  • Half of your tax-deductible gift will go directly to the Reproductive Health Services clinic for improving security measures, and half will support our Clinic Defense Team that works to keep Reproductive Health Services and other targeted clinics open and safe. (feminist.org)
  • There were new health codes implemented embracing the health of girls and young women who were in the workforce. (wikipedia.org)
  • Stigma and social pressure to hide any sign of menstruation can stop girls and young women from talking about their experiences, playing sport or seeking support and advice. (vic.gov.au)
  • Girls and young women are less likely to take part in sport as they get older. (vic.gov.au)
  • and violence, especially against women and girls. (who.int)
  • We need to invest in women's and girls' empowerment, health and well-being in all areas of life. (who.int)
  • By reducing gender inequalities, improving the health and well-being of women and girls, and advancing their socioeconomic status and inclusion, we enhance our societies. (who.int)
  • Women's empowerment happens when women and girls are free to control their own lives, to exercise their rights, to be equal members of society. (quakerearthcare.org)
  • When women and girls have options for their lives, they have fewer children and have them at the stages of their lives when they can more effectively care for them. (quakerearthcare.org)
  • In El Salvador, the total ban on abortion denies the service even to women and girls whose lives are at risk or those who have been raped. (amnestyusa.org)
  • Adolescent girls…should have access to health services that are sensitive to their rights and particular needs. (womenlobby.org)
  • CWW is now broadening its focus to include women of reproductive age and adolescent girls who are a high-priority group for STH services due to their increased risk of anemia. (taskforce.org)
  • From its side, the UNFPA said that Osotimehin's passing was a "devastating" loss for the agency and people especially women, girls and youth. (egypttoday.com)
  • UNFPA added that Osotimehin's was a strong leader and helped keep the health, dignity and rights of women and girls high on the global agenda as he understood that the world's 1.8 billion young people are truly its greatest hope for the future. (egypttoday.com)
  • Thousands of women and girls in Argentina suffer needlessly every year because of negligent or abusive reproductive health care. (disabled-world.com)
  • Human Rights Watch's report also criticizes Argentina's reproductive health policies for ignoring key constituencies such as women and girls with disabilities. (disabled-world.com)
  • But unless changes are constant and clear, women and girls will continue to suffer and, in some cases, die. (disabled-world.com)
  • Promoting and protecting the health of women and girls: In celebration of the Office of Women's Health on their 25th Anniversary! (cdc.gov)
  • Over the past 25 years, we have made significant progress in the advancement of women's and girls' health. (cdc.gov)
  • Disappointing is their journey to justice, which is often met with systemic shortcomings, which further undermines enjoyment of the rights of women and girls. (lu.se)
  • To promote and protect the rights of her women and girls, Africa adopted the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa " Maputo Protocol " on 11 July 2003. (lu.se)
  • Our bodies are protected from horrifying mutilations inflicted in the name of making us women while we are still girls. (lu.se)
  • However, scientists learned that baby girls born to women who took this medicine had an abnormally shaped uterus. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Friends' testimony on Equality leads us to advocate for empowerment of women, and in the process, we address our concern about the unprecedented rapid increase in human population. (quakerearthcare.org)
  • As we contend with this appalling development, I will continue to be a voice and an advocate for policies that protect the rights of women in Massachusetts. (capecod.com)
  • Whilst in Maine, Wadsworth worked passionately to advocate for birth control access for all women, in particular, those in more remote locations in Maine. (mainecampus.com)