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Paying attention: Boston hospital helps breastfeeding Black moms, babies thrive

Katherine Standish Afi Semenya

September 12, 2022 |

The Boston Globe |

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Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative provides a 10-step approach to hospital-based breastfeeding support in an effort to increase breastfeeding rates and reduce the racial disparities Black women often face during breastfeeding initiation. Breastfeeding has been shown to have a significant impact on a baby and mother’s health outcomes and the breastfeeding medicine clinic is available to anyone who is interested, including Medicaid patients who wouldn’t be able to afford the services otherwise.

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Making women dry; here's how a foundation is reducing Nigeria's fistula burden

Mustapha Usman

September 09, 2022 |

International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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Response Location: Nigeria

Fistula Foundation Nigeria helps women with obstetric fistula get free treatment and get back to daily life. The organization also works to prevent obstetric fistula through public education and training doctors.

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Volunteer acompañantes in Mexico aid at-home abortions. Their network is expanding to Texas.

Greta Díaz González Vázquez

August 29, 2022 |

The Texas Tribune |

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Response Location: Mexico, Monterrey

Mexican volunteer networks such as Necesito Arbortar, which counsels and supports women through at-home abortions, are training volunteers from the United States to develop their own "acompañamiento" systems in the wake of new restrictions on reproductive care. Though Necesito Abortar has not yet found a way to donate needed medication to people seeking abortion in nearby Texas, the organization has been fielding roughly 70 calls per day since the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, providing information and assistance to Americans who need abortion care or want to help ensure access on their side of the border.

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‘It starts with us': Roanoke organizations teaming up to combat Black maternal mortality crisis

Jazmine Otey

August 24, 2022 |

WSLS-TV |

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Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

Birth in Color, in partnership with Birth Equity Action & Research to Transform Health (BEARTH) Village, is working to address the Black maternal mortality crisis. The community-based organizations use research and cultural wisdom to dismantle inequities Black women face during birth. The groups provide free doula care to provide care and advocate for women in healthcare settings. There are currently 80 available doulas who help about 350 women give birth each year.

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Youth-led NGOs are battling period poverty in Nigeria. Their weapon is reusable pads

Adebayo Abdulrahman

August 02, 2022 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria

One Voice Initiative for Women and Children Emancipation and Reaching Minds Foundation are two organizations that have distributed thousands of reusable pad kits to school girls and women. The organizations also train people on how to make their own reusable pads from environmentally friendly fabrics and use them correctly.

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How BFF is reintegrating obstetric fistula patients back into society

Sola Abe

July 28, 2022 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

The Bashir Fistula Foundation (BFF) provides free surgeries to remedy obstetric fistula, as well as rehabilitation services to integrate patients back into society. Since the organization was formed in 2018, approximately 98 women have benefitted from free surgical intervention.

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Breast, Cervical Cancers: Touring Team's Approach Protects Low-Income Nigerian Women

Angela Umoru

July 27, 2022 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Ota, Ogun State

A medical outreach group called Quinta Health offers breast and cervical cancer screenings to women free of charge. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women globally. Quinta Health uses a strategic outreach plan to reach low-income community women in need of screening and trains medical professionals to provide the tests in surrounding cities.

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A few tablets a day keep rickets away

Judd-Leonard Okafor

July 20, 2022 |

Daily Trust |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

The Hope for the Village Child Foundation provides rickets treatment to children via a daily dose of calcium. Treating rickets allows children to live more comfortably, avoid missing school, and being bullied by their peers. Since the 1990s, about 4,257 children have benefited from the rickets project.

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Bridge: The technological innovation reducing delays in breast cancer diagnosis

Ojoma Akor

July 19, 2022 |

Daily Trust |

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Response Location: Nigeria

The Bridge app helps reduce delays in accessing breast cancer diagnosis and improves health outcomes for women in rural areas. The app provides health workers with information on symptoms to look out for and how to perform exams in hopes to promote early breast cancer detection.

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Winning the Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation in Cross River State

Violet Ikong

July 18, 2022 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Agwagune, Cross River

The Center for Social Value and Early Childhood Development works to fight the harmful traditional practices of female genital mutilation by sending teams to visit communities and engage with community and religious leaders to raise awareness of the harmful effects of the practice. Since forming, their efforts have prevented over 500 female circumcisions.

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