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A Positive Intervention in a Conflict Ridden Country: Iraq
I mentioned this briefly in class, but this week’s readings were particularly difficult for me as we talked about women in war and refugee situations. The reason it was so tough for me was because I could see no solution or protection for women aside from long term, insitutional or cultural shifts. But then, in [...]
Food Security and Sexual Violence
One thing that we read about in class this week briefly was food distribution in refugee camps and how sometimes those distributing food withhold the food from women in exchange for sex acts, or give women more than their ration in exchange for sex acts. I had a difficult time again this week in finding [...]
Holistic Change for Women: Venezuela and Banco de la Mujer
This week we will look at an absolutely incredible intervention that attacks the feminization poverty intelligently and compassionately. The Banco de la Mujer, or Banmujer, of Venezuela aims to empower women not only economically, but also politically and socially. Established on International Women’s Day in 2001, its goal was to target specifically the women who [...]
“It felt like somebody took my body”: An Overview of Postpartum Depression
“ And it just worsened and 3 days after I was home … I didn’t want anything to do with him [the baby]/and he cried and cried” (5) Outside of the course, my academic interest primarily focus on parental engagement and a child’s linguisitic competency. Mother-child physical and verbal interactions are crucial for a [...]
Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc. &the Fight Against Human Trafficking
After a variety of Google searches, I was able to find what one group called the Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc. (VF) in the Philippines was doing to help combat the trafficking of Filipinos that was founded by Cecilia Flores-Oebanda who I quoted in an earlier blog post in regards to what should be done to [...]
The Cambodian User Fee Experience and Health Worker Incentives
The literature that I’ve explored in my blog series has focused on the variety of experiences that countries have had in changing their health policy as it relates to users fees. Typically, countries raise user fees on people in the health system to promote higher quality of service and financial sustainability. Often this hits poor [...]
This is reality… :(
I read an article that stated that, “Gender inequity is the norm in Tanzania”. Wow! I didn’t even know where to go from there. The MKUKUTA (Swahili acronym for National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty) Status Report 2006 indicates that 60 percent of women believe that wife beating is acceptable as compared with 42 percent [...]
The Men’s Story Project: Promoting “Healthy Masculinity” as a Means to Improve Women’s Health
This week, to continue with my theme of men’s involvement in reproductive health interventions I decided to write about The Men’s Story Project (MSP). It may seem that because the project focuses on men and masculinity that it does not relate to this course on women’s health, but I believe that this project will ultimately [...]
The Black Widows of Chechnya