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Detroit initiatives combat high Black infant mortality rate with dignity and compassion

Brooke Marshall

March 17, 2023 |

Flintside |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

The Women-Inspired Neighborhood (WIN) Network: Detroit works to improve Black infant health outcomes by providing support services like group prenatal care, targeted home visits, and breastfeeding programs. By using the CenteringPregancy model, over 600 women have gone through the program and there have been zero preventable infant deaths. Win also helps direct women toward resources like stable housing and higher education.

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How this NGO is facilitating emergency delivery response for labour women

Abubakar Abdulrasheed

March 15, 2023 |

BONews |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Niger

Raise Foundation provides transportation to hospitals for women in labor in rural, hard-to-reach areas that lack access to healthcare centers. Through its tricycle ambulance service, the organization has helped over 230 expectant mothers have a safe delivery.

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Lagos breast milk bank is cultivating a culture of donation among new mothers

Sola Abe

March 14, 2023 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

The Milk Bank Nigeria provides donor breast milk for sick, low birth weight and premature babies in neonatal ICUs across the country to reduce mortality in preterm babies. The Milk Bank Nigeria launched in August 2022 and as of Decemeber the organization had registered four donors who had supplied 33 liters of breast milk.

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Birth centers have never been more popular, but struggle to remain viable. How some midwives are changing the system.

Anna Claire Vollers

March 13, 2023 |

Reckon |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

Organizations like Elephant Circle and community-led efforts are working to ensure birth centers have the money and resources to keep their doors open. These organizations help birth centers transition into fully nonprofit organizations that can accept donations from investors and fundraising to continue providing services to those in need of care.

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How One Nigerian Woman is Waging a War against Period Poverty

Mohammed Taoheed

March 10, 2023 |

International Policy Digest |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

The Achievers Foundation distributes free sanitary pads to those experiencing period poverty. The Foundation also hosts lectures on sexual and menstrual health and works to fight the stigma surrounding periods in some communities.

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Menstrual products, education restoring dignity of adolescent girls in Migori

Polycarp Ochieng

March 07, 2023 |

Lake Region Bulletin |

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Response Location: Kenya, Migori County

Tucheze Mtaani provides sexual reproductive health education support to young, school-age girls, specifically those in remote, rural areas where access to menstrual products and sexual education is scarce. The group provides educational resources, mentorships and counseling, as well as access to pads and sanitary supplies within schools to ensure girls feel supported at school and no longer have to miss days or drop out altogether.

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Meet the all-female ‘disease detectives' revitalising their nation's health

Peter Yeung

March 01, 2023 |

The Telegraph |

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Response Location: Bangladesh, Mymensingh District

Teams of Shasthya Shebikas, female community volunteers, are spread across the country providing door-to-door healthcare services to those in need who often struggle to access care. This community healthcare system, in partnership with the local government and other area NGOs, provides free or low-cost care to about 80 million people each year and has seen dramatic health improvements in terms of infant and maternal mortality and vaccination rates.

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Opioid addiction recovery providers favor individual-centered treatment options for Black women

Eliza Partika

February 24, 2023 |

AfroLA |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

In an effort to build non-arrest pathways to drug treatment and recoveries, like transitional housing and various support services, groups like The Sidewalk Project and Friendly House are emerging. The groups use harm-reduction measures to help women struggling with opioid addiction and lead them toward recovery when they’re ready.

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Two countries, two different approaches to population programs

Sandhya Raman Sawitree Wongketjai

February 22, 2023 |

Roll Call |

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Response Location: Thailand, Bangkok

The Population and Community Development Association was established in 1974 to promote family planning and has since partnered with the local government and other groups to provide family planning services, and resources, like condoms and birth control, as well as education. Widespread promotion and availability of contraceptives thanks to the group has led the uptake among women of reproductive age to go from about 17% in 1970 to 75% in 2022 — as well as a reduction in fertility rates, all of which helps to control the overall population.

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Mississippi Evangelicals Prepare to Welcome Dobbs Babies

Adam MacInnis

February 13, 2023 |

Christianity Today |

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Response Location: United States, Mississippi

Embrace Grace is a 12-week program that supports single parents and women facing unplanned pregnancies and works to coach churches to be more accepting and open their doors and their hearts to those in need, specifically in the wake of the Dobbs. V. Jackson and Roe v. Wade overturn. There are currently about 20 churches across the state involved in the program.

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