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Moms In ‘Survival Mode’ As U.S. Trails World On Benefits
Roxanne Vivanco just returned to her banking job in Ramsey, New Jersey, after spending 12 weeks with her newborn daughter without having to deplete her savings. [She] was able to tap a state-administered benefit that finances family leave through employee payroll contributions. [...] Vivanco considers herself fortunate in a nation where only 12 percent of workers get paid time off to care for a baby or a sick parent, according to the U.S. Labor Department. Read More »
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30 Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs In Africa 2014
There has never been a more inspired generation of young Africans. These builders, innovators and risk takers are fervent in their resolve to transform the continent. They are solving critical socio-economic problems, exporting African culture to the world, creating job opportunities for Africans, re-telling Africa’s stories, and writing the future. Read More »
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Adarsh Desai, Program Manager, Open Development Techology Alliance At TechWomen
Adarsh Desai, Program Manager for the Open Development Technology Alliance (ODTA), with the World Bank Institute's Innovation department will participate in an interactive discussion on “Tech for Social Good” at the 2012 TechWomen conference. Read More »
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After Sexual Trauma, Soldiers Search For Better Care, Peace
At least one in five female veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has screened positive for military sexual trauma (MST) once back home, Department of Veterans Affairs records show. And this may understate the crisis, experts say, because this number only counts women who go to the VA for help. Read More »
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An App For Healthy Pregnancies Wins Award
A healthcare app developed in Berkeley is the winner of a $10,000 innovation award from Ashoka Changemakers for technology that improves the lives of women and girls. Read More »
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App Aims To Reduce Maternal Mortality
Hesperian Health Guides has developed a smartphone application designed to guide pregnant women, midwives and health workers in rural areas through a safe pregnancy and delivery. Read More »
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Are Health Workers Delivering For Women? And Are We Delivering For Health Workers?
In 2010, an estimated 287,000 women died from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. Of these deaths, 85% occurred in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia. This represents a global decline of 47% since 1990—but falls disappointingly short of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target of 75%. Read More »
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ASAP Awards – Interview With Nitika Pant Tai
Communities with limited wealth suffer of diseases in a way that many of us may never come to be confronted with. Poverty befriends disease, and many diseases befriend shame. Read More »
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Barbara Kay: Our Male-Victimizing Myths Live On
Twenty years ago Earl Silverman of Calgary, fleeing his home to escape violence from his abusive wife, had no refuge to take shelter in. There were plenty of shelters for women victims of domestic abuse, but for men the only publicly funded services were for anger management. The message was clear to Silverman: “As a victim, I was re-victimized by having these services telling me I wasn’t a victim, but I was a perpetrator.” Read More »
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BSR Launches Open-Source Curriculum for HERproject Women’s Health-Training Programs
A new set of curriculum from BSR’s HERproject will help women working in factories globally learn about sensitive and critical health issues, including nutrition, water-borne disease, HIV/AIDS, family planning, and more, so that they and their families can improve their health and well-being.
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Computerworld Honors 2013: Critical Health Data Sent To Rural Ghana Via Mobile
This mobile health platform, the 21st Century Achievement Award winner for health, aims to improve the availability and quality of healthcare services in rural Ghana and demonstrate best practices. Read More »
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Double Down: Obamacare Will Increase Avg. Individual-Market Insurance Premiums By 99% For Men, 62% For Women
For months now, we’ve been waiting to hear how much Obamacare will drive up the cost of health insurance for people who purchase coverage on their own. Last night, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finally began to provide some data on how Americans will fare on Obamacare’s federally-sponsored insurance exchanges. [...] Read More »
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EAC Mulls Project to Boost Maternal, Child Health
The East African Community is set to launch before the end of this year a project to boost maternal and child health in the region. The project, named the Open Health Initiative, is envisaged to promote innovative interventions and enhance access to data and information for better results, better tracking of resources and stronger oversight of results and resources for women's and children's health nationally and regionall... Read More »
East African Community 'Open Health' Project to Boost Maternal & Child Health
The East African Community is expected to launch before the end of this year, a special project named 'Open Health Initiative' geared to boost maternal and child health in the region. Read More »
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Economic Slowdown Tied To Rise In Obesity In Richer Nations: OECD
The rate of obesity continues to climb across the world's most developed countries, with certain nations and groups of people such as women and the poor hit harder by the recent economic crisis, the OECD said on Tuesday. Read More »
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