From Guttmacher Institute email:
<big>In a new comment published in The Lancet, experts Ann Starrs, Alex Ezeh, Gilda Sedgh and Susheela Singh outline the collective work needed to advance sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for all by 2030. Drawing on a vision and recommendations made five years ago by the Guttmacher–Lancet Commission, the comment reiterates the need for universal access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and the significant contributions of SRHR to economic growth, poverty eradication, gains in education, reduced inequalities and environmental sustainability.
The authors of the comment noted that there have been some impressive signs of progress in SRHR since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015; for example, the adolescent birth rate declined by 13% globally. However, progress in many areas has stalled: The global level of maternal mortality has barely changed since 2015 and has even increased in some high-income countries. The authors point out that “all too often, the politicization of sex, gender and reproduction get in the way of progress.”
The authors call on all countries to “integrate SRH services into their universal health coverage plans and budgets” and advocate including the following essential package of SRH services, recommended by the Guttmacher–Lancet Commission:
- Comprehensive sexuality education
- Counseling and services for a range of modern contraceptives, with a defined minimum number and types of methods
- Antenatal, childbirth and postnatal care, including emergency obstetric and newborn care
- Safe abortion services and treatment of complications of unsafe abortions
- Prevention and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections
- Prevention, detection, immediate services and referrals for cases of sexual and gender-based violence
- Prevention, detection and management of reproductive cancers, especially cervical cancer
- Information, counseling and services for subfertility and infertility
- Information, counseling and services for sexual health and well-being
The authors conclude that, “With commitment and leadership from national governments supported by a broad base of stakeholders, the realization of universal access to the full range of SRH services is well within reach.” Read the full comment.
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■ ReliefWeb 20+ women-led Sudanese anti-war organizations met in Cairo to coordinate efforts and demands.
■ COFR Sexual Assault Increasing Among Displaced Women in the Congo
■ COFR Imprisoned Irani Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike Monday to protest The Islamic Republic’s policies of delaying and neglecting medical care for sick inmates, and ‘death’ or ‘mandatory hijab’ for Iranian women.
■ UNWomen-Asia&Pacific Ten ways to prevent violence against women and girls.
■ The land is still alive: Mapuche leader Betiana Colhuan’s fight to reclaim Argentina national park land sacred to her people.
■ Salt Lake Trib Opinion: How Utahns can acknowledge — and subvert — the patriarchy.
■ Cherelle Parker made history as the first woman elected Philly mayor. Experts, mayors and CEOs say Parker will be held to higher standards, judged more harshly, and subjected to stereotypes her predecessors never faced. (Just like Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass. It never ends...)
■ CalMatters At least 46 California hospitals have shuttered or suspended maternity services since 2012.
■ When Kimberly Dowdell takes the American Institute of Architects presidency next month, next month she will be the first Black woman to fill the post in the group’s 166-year history.
■ Research by the ABA and the the National Native American Bar Association “shines a light on the unique barriers Native American women face in the legal profession, including financial obstacles, caretaking obligations, limited mentoring opportunities and the persistent issues of erasure, harassment and bias.”
■ The NOT INVISIBLE ACT Commission has submitted recommendations to the federal government on steps to take to address the MMIP epidemic. “The commission — composed of law enforcement, Tribal leaders, federal partners, service providers, families of missing and murdered individuals, and survivors — is calling for a Decade of Healing and Action — a “partnership with Tribal communities, Tribal governments, and relevant organizations, focusing on improving safety, prevention, justice, support services, and healing for AI/AN communities through increased funding, policy reform, action-oriented programs, and training and technical assistance.”
■ UK calls for more contraception access, counseling, and longerterm options The PIll goes OTC.
■ Author and critic Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, known as A.S. Byatt, whose writing explored family, myth and narrative in a career spanning six decades, has died aged 87. ■ wik bio ■ obit ■ obit.
■ England NHS boss Amanda Pritchard: Cervical cancer can be eliminated here by 2040
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TheConversation- Oct 17 Women in Israel and Palestine have pushed for peace — together.
On Oct. 4, 2023, just days before the Hamas attacks on Israel and the retaliatory Israeli aerial bombardment and siege on Gaza, thousands of Israeli and Palestinian feminist peace activists gathered in Jerusalem and near the Dead Sea.
Representing Israeli-based Women Wage Peace and Palestinian-based Women of the Sun, this feminist peace coalition called on political leaders to negotiate an end to the bloodshed and resolve the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Three days later…
A week later, the movement issued a full statement on the rapid escalation of violence in Gaza:
“Every mother, Jewish and Arab, gives birth to her children to see them grow and flourish and not to bury them. That’s why, even today, amid the pain and the feeling that the belief in peace has collapsed, we extend a hand in peace to the mothers of Gaza and the West Bank.”
undoubtedly a difficult statement to write through their grief and anguish. Veteran Canadian-Israeli activist Vivian Silver, a founding member of Women Wage Peace, [was among those lost.] But [this is] emblematic of the power and resolve of feminist anti-war collective action.
Both Women Wage Peace and Women of the Sun were founded after the 2014 Gaza War, a 50-day conflict that caused mass displacement and injury and left more than 2,250 Palestinian [men, women and children] dead ...Women of the Sun was founded in Bethlehem by Palestinians living under occupation, to empower Palestinian women and call for peace.
In 2016, [they] organized a mass March of Hope — which included 30,000 people in Israel and 3,000 Palestinians from the West Bank — carrying a message of peace in the wake of violence and death….
— more at the link
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<big>WOMEN’S HEALTH RIGHTS</big>
■ NPR 20 women with serious health issues sue Texas, saying state abortion laws endangered them.
■ Woman in Arkansas helped campaign for Ohio’s Abortion Referendum.
■ Congenital syphilis is on the sharp rise in the US, especially when the mother could not obtain maternity care, and the same globally anywhere there’s inadequate antibiotic supply [and inadequate barrier usage]. Syphilis is among noted causes of still-birth.
■ Particulate pollution increases the risk for breast cancer.
■ Long covid lasts for 18 months in most patients [—most of whom are women— plenty enough to put the rest of your life in a permanent tailspin.]
■ First Lady Jill Biden said 'If you ask any woman in America about her health care, she probably has a story to tell,' The White House has announced the first-ever White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, to be led by Dr. Biden and the White House Gender Policy Council, chaired and coordinated by Dr. Carolyn Mazure, recently from the Yale School of Medicine.
■ Another first by this administration — the U.S. Department of Labor is offering sample voluntary agreements for three kinds of domestic work, for employers to clarify expectations and worker rights to be less unprotected.
■ How abortion bans impair domestic violence prevention.
■ The Joint Commission, a US-based nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c) medical accrediting organization for over 22,000 US health care organizations and programs, has loosened its guidelines on filming and recording of patients for training and education purposes. Previously, hospitals had to obtain informed consent from patients. Now, it’s just a "hospital considers patients' privacy and complies with law and regulation when making and using recordings, films, or other images of patients." Lori Bruce, MA, MBE, HEC-C, associate director of Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, says it "should only be done with the patient's explicit consent after ensuring their [mental] capacity" and that security identity from recording and securing the recordings themselves are top concerns.
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DailyMail Alabama woman, 84, set to be booted from her home.
Corine Woodson, 84, [faces losing her tiny red-roofed bungalow] in Auburn, Alabama. Her husband's family purchased the 40.7-acre swathe more than a century ago, [it descended to all his heirs and theirs by percentage ownership known as “tenants in common”, many built on it and have bickered and sued each other for decades over it, and some sold their shares. Now the rest and investors owning 49% have moved to sell to a [McMansion developer to whom] it could be worth $20million...
[The former farm’s value rose] exponentially ... as rich landowners moved in and the area [became] a college town thanks to nearby Auburn University…
...The developers were [able to move the purchase by meeting] a court deadline that Woodson did not because she thought she owned her home. Her daughter] told the WTVM she feels 'naïve' and helpless to change [what’s] underway.
...The developers [say they] will let Woodson stay on the property for one year after the sale is completed….
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<big><big>MEN BEHAVING BADLY</big></big>
■ Our hallowed halls of legislature. ‘Stand your butt up’,” other taunts & microaggressions, and some macros witnessed at Congress Tuesday: a House member was called a smurf, a kidney may have been punched, misc. honorable gentlemen squared off, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Kweisi Mfume sought to keep the peace.
■ Sean "Diddy" Combs accused of rape and severe physical abuse by ex-girlfriend Cassie. #metoo
■ Twenty-seven Ohio GOP assembly-members have vowed to subvert the Nov. 7 state referendum establishing a constitutional right to an abortion,
■ United Kingdom Ministry of Defense HQ and overseas endemic sexism exposed further on testimony from dozens of senior civilian employees.
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