Involving Men to Improve Maternal & Newborn Health
Извор: WUNRN – 18.07.2018
Background
Emerging evidence and program experience indicate that engaging men in maternal and newborn health can have considerable health benefits for women and children in low- and middle-income countries. Previous reviews have identified male involvement as a promising intervention, but with a complex evidence base and limited direct evidence of effectiveness for mortality and morbidity outcomes.
Objective
To determine the effect of interventions to engage men during pregnancy, childbirth and infancy on mortality and morbidity, as well as effects on mechanisms by which male involvement is hypothesized to influence mortality and morbidity outcomes: home care practices, care-seeking, and couple relationships.
Adolescent Advocacy Toolkit for Improved Health & Well-Being
Извор: WUNRN – 13.07.2018
UN High Level Forum on Sustainable Development - Secretary-General's Report - Goal 5: Gender Equality & Empowerment
Извор: WUNRN – 10.07.2018
Direct Link to Full 23-Page 2018 UN Report
EU - What Europe Does for You + Maternity, Paternity & Parental Leave in the EU
Извор: WUNRN – 05.07.2018
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Mothers - What Europe Does for You
With European elections coming up in May 2019, you probably want to know how the European Union impacts your daily life, before you think about voting. In the latest in a series of posts on what Europe does for you, your family, your business and your wellbeing, we look at what Europe does for mothers.
Countering Violence Against Women Requires Raising Awareness of Its Multiple Forms & Stepping Up Comprehensive Responses - OSCE
Извор: WUNRN – 04.07.2018
VIENNA, 2 July 2018 – Strengthening law-enforcement and judicial responses to violence against women, raising awareness about its multiple and invisible forms and empowering victims are crucial elements of any effective strategy to prevent such violence, participants said today at the opening of a two-day OSCE conference in Vienna.
The meeting, Countering Violence against Women – Everyone’s Responsibility, was organized by the Italian OSCE Chairmanship, with the support of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and in co-ordination with the Gender Section of the Office of the OSCE Secretary General. It gathered representatives of OSCE participating States, civil society and international organizations to discuss current challenges and good practices in preventing and countering violence against women in the OSCE region.
EU - Why It Is Crucial to End Orphanage-Style Child Care Systems in Europe?
Извор: WUNRN – 03.07.2018
A state-run institution for children in Moldova – Photo: Eurochild
Strengthening families and tackling child poverty goes hand-in-hand with ending institutional care for children.
Jana Hainsworth is Secretary General of Eurochild, a network of organisations working to promote the rights and well-being of children and young people. Eurochild has been running the Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign in 15 countries, aiming to end institutional care and strengthen families in Europe.
Hundreds of thousands of children across Europe are growing up, away from their families, in institutional care.
Care Work & Care Jobs for the Future of Work – Care Burden on Women
Извор: WUNRN – 02.07.2018
The new ILO (International Labour Organization) Report highlights inadequate policy responses to the rising demand and quantifies the extent of the care burden on women.
Direct Link to Full 525-Page 2018 ILO Report
New ILO report Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work takes a comprehensive look at unpaid and paid care work and its relationship with the changing world of work. A key focus is the persistent gender inequalities in households and the labour market, which are inextricably linked with care work.
Men Must Be Advocates for Reform on Human Trafficking, Sexual Exploitation, Prostitution, Pornography
Извор: WUNRN – 01.07.2018
Child sexual exploitation is a profound challenge to our society and to countries around the globe. Given the scale and persistence of the problem, it is an issue that requires all parts of our community to contribute to the solution. And we are fortunate to live an era that recognizes the horrors of modern slavery and has taken initial steps to address it. However, there is one element of society that can have a disproportionate impact in bringing child sexual exploitation to an end, and that is men.
The uncomfortable truth for men in our country is that we are the source of the primary problem of child trafficking. Men mindlessly look at pornography without considering if the “barely legal” girls in the video are actually adults and consenting.
Spending hours sitting in meetings? Consult WHO’s new guide to planning healthy and sustainable meetings
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 05.07.2018
WHO
“We somehow consider meetings to be an exception to the general healthy lifestyle we try to follow,” says Dr João Breda, Head of the WHO European Office for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases and Programme Manager ad interim of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity at WHO/Europe. “But this is mostly because the way they are organized often doesn’t give us much of a choice. Making meetings healthier does not have to be complicated or expensive – and often makes them more enjoyable.”
WHO study shows drug could save thousands of women’s lives
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 27.06.2018
News Release - Geneva
Audio file
A new formulation of a drug to prevent excessive bleeding following childbirth could save thousands of women’s lives in low- and lower-middle-income countries, according to a study led by WHO in collaboration with MSD for Mothers and Ferring Pharmaceuticals.
Currently, WHO recommends oxytocin as the first-choice drug for preventing excessive bleeding after childbirth. Oxytocin, however, must be stored and transported at 2–8 degrees Celsius, which is hard to do, in many countries, depriving many women of access to this lifesaving drug. When they can obtain it, the drug may be less effective because of heat exposure.
Climate change increasingly affects small countries
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 25.06.2018
Climate change challenges many countries in the world and is increasingly affecting small countries. Ministers and other high-level public health officials from the 8 countries that make up the Small Countries Initiative will gather in Reykjavik on 26–27 June to find solutions that can protect their people’s health from this and other threats. Enhanced efforts will contribute to reaching the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This is the 5th annual meeting of the Initiative since it was launched in 2013.
More frequent and intensive extreme weather events
Globally, between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year. It is estimated that the direct damage costs to health will be US$ 2–4 billion a year by 2030.
World Drug Report 2018: Opioid Crisis, Prescription Drug Abuse Expands; Cocaine & Opium Hit Record Highs
Извор: WUNRN – 01.07.2018
26 June 2018 - The non-medical use of prescription drugs is becoming a major threat to public health and law enforcement worldwide with opioids causing the most harm and accounting for 76 per cent of deaths where drug use disorders were implicated, according to the latest World Drug Report, released today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Fentanyl and its analogues remain a problem in North America, while tramadol - an opioid used to treat moderate and moderate-to-severe pain - has become a growing concern in parts of Africa and Asia.