To the Members of the UN Human Rights Council, It is an honor to communicate with you and share the findings from my research. As a college student in a class on International Women’s Health, I have had the opportunity to learn about the Roma minority in Europe, with a particular focus on women’s health [...]
In my final blog post, I would like to focus on the specific health services that adolescents have access to in South Asia and how this list is tailored by priorities in government policy. A large picture view of the policies helped me identify with the government’s goals/priorities were for adolescent well-being. In 1983, the [...]
This week, I carried out my research in order to find a second intervention that I thought seemed promising and was doing work in Africa to combat violence against women. Although my research enabled me to learn about a number of organizations (UNFPA, Raising Voices in Uganda, Vital Voices Global Partnership [and the work that [...]
In the first iteration of my blog this week, I outlined the rights that undocumented Mexican migrant women in the United States, including protection from an abusive partner or employer. I was determined to find a promising intervention for this problem, since, as I discussed in a previous blog, Mexican and other migrant women make [...]
For my last blog post, I would like to focus on a particularly different and interesting intervention for reproductive health education: theatre. The story begins in Mozambique, one of the poorest countries in the world. Years of civil strife have left the nation, not only with a weak economy, but also without an adequate healthcare [...]
What is a babushka? Basically, babushki are grandmothers or older women, who are often seen wearing headscarves. They demand respect, and really do merit it. These women have lived through Stalin, World War II, forced relocations, rationings and shortages, among many other hardships of the Soviet Union. However, many young people and adults consider them [...]
In my previous blogs I have discussed the barriers to safe sex practices among Latinas. As you may recall, I discussed the lack of communication and discussion about sex and sexuality in the Latino community due to the perception of sex as a taboo subject (Erby et. al, 2011). Furthermore, many Latinas experience feelings of [...]
Yesterday and one day before International Women’s Day, Doctors With Borders released a report called Maternal Death: The Avoidable Crisis which declares that 1,000 women a day die in childbirth (1). The emergency of maternal health provides MSF with an opportunity to create a sustainable and long term plan to treat women during and after [...]
As I have been reading interventions for mental health, I think it’s important to develop interventions that center on therapies that have been proven to work. Besides medications and other such treatments, one treatment option is psychotherapy or “talk therapy.” While psychotherapy alone might not be effective for the most severe forms of depression, the [...]
Last Words: Memo to the Director-General of the WHO
Increased Funding for Adolescent Reproductive Health Essential to Improve the Quality of Life of Women Executive Summary The World Health Organization should prioritize funding for programs that support adolescent health and improve the Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) among women. Adolescent reproductive health is a key stage in a woman’s development that determines the quality [...]
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