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Regional experts will be gathering at a MENA consultation meeting directly before a global gathering of women’s health researchers and activists at the Women Deliver conference, taking place May 28 to 30.
More than three years after the United States lifted a 22-year-old travel ban on people living with HIV, Fortunata Kasege still feels the acute distance between New York City and her native Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
http://womensenews.org/story/immigration/130522/home-still-far-away-immigrants-hiv
The first article, published today, looks at the wide ranging risks for women and their children in America:
“Mothers and children share this “body burden” of pollutants in much the same way they share physical traits. Tests by the Washington-based Environmental Working Group found children have more synthetic chemicals in common with their mothers than with unrelated women and children.
Combined, these environmental contaminants may be responsible for the recent doubling in the incidence of asthma, autism, diabetes, male infertility, obesity and prostate cancer.”
Read the full report at: http://womensenews.org/story/environment/121117/strong-medicine-needed-combat-toxic-policies
Women’s eNews will research, report, and edit a series of stories about women and the environment, including coverage of women-led grassroots movements and the effects of environmental hazards on women’s health.
Molly Ginty, a Women’s eNews contributor, is leading the eight-part reporting series. Ginty and the Women’s eNews editorial team were recognized on June 26, 2012 with a Casey Medal for Meritorious Reporting for an Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute supported report “Infant Formula Companies Milk US Food Program”.
“Molly Ginty is an outstanding journalist who is deeply committed to producing the kind of high-impact journalism that reflects her commitment to women’s health” said Rita Henley Jensen, editor in chief of Women’s eNews. “I am delighted the Woodtiger Fund supports an opportunity for Ginty to continue in her dedication to documenting the unnecessary environmental hazards to all women’s well-being.”
This foundation sponsored series will be published over the next year and work to better inform Women’s eNews’ audience of activists, academics, students, philanthropists and government officials.
Morocco has blazed a reputation as a can-do country when it comes to improving its maternal health statistics.
‘Ain’t I a Woman’ Still resonates for African American Women
1,000 women still die every day in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications that are preventable with skilled clinicians, drugs and equipment. 80% of all maternal deaths globally can be attributed to 5 basic risks
Diabetes and obesity are big problems for Hispanic women in New York, particularly those in low-income areas such as the South Bronx. Nutritionists say lessons in healthier eating and cooking begin with a cultural understanding of food.
Pregnancy Can Include Admitting You’re Depressed
(WOMENSENEWS)—When Rebecca Binford was pregnant with her son three years ago, she found herself engulfed by emotional and physical stress, increased pressures at work, extreme anxiety and an unbearable amount of pain. She became so overwhelmed that it was difficult to function normally.
“I was in a total state of despair,” she says. “I had very little coping skills at a time when so much was going on in my life and with my body.”
She’s fine now, but some women don’t survive depression in pregnancy.
Two out of every 100,000 women who are pregnant kill themselves, according to a study published in November by the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Forty percent of Americans—a majority of them women—spend 10 percent of their out-of-pocket health care dollars on complementary and alternative therapies.
Dr. Josephine P. Briggs, director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, based in Gaithersburg, Md., reported on findings from the agency’s large-scale double-blind trials for alternative therapies. The center is the federal government’s lead agency for scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine.
Evening Primrose oil, it turns out, has not been any better than a placebo in these trials at relieving menopausal symptoms or PMS. On the benefits of gingko biloba, an extract from the leaves of the ginkgo tree, Briggs was likewise discouraging.
Other findings from her agency’s research:
