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Reprod Health
December 2024
The George Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Conflict-affected regions face severe reproductive health challenges that disproportionately impact adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) and children, who are especially vulnerable due to the breakdown of healthcare systems and limited access to essential services. AGYW are at heightened risk due to restricted access to family planning, prenatal care, and emergency obstetric services, while children face malnutrition, disease outbreaks, and developmental delays. These challenges have profound long-term consequences for both their physical and psychological well-being.
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January 2025
Office of Women's Health, Health Resources and Services Administration, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
The Federal Cervical Cancer Collaborative (FCCC) was established by the Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Women's Health and its interagency partners within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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June 2024
Department of Speech, Language, Hearing Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.
Recent findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network's 2020 prevalence report indicate that disparities in autism diagnoses between Black and White youth have narrowed, reflecting improved screening, awareness, and access to services (Maenner et al., 2023. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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March 2024
Amref Health Africa, Ethiopia.
Over the last three decades, the United Nations interagency working group series of model-based maternal mortality estimation showed a significant reduction in maternal mortality ratio (MMR) at global, regional, and national levels. However, the contribution of sub-Saharan Africa for the global maternal deaths in 2020 was nearly two-fold higher than before, and the top five countries with high burden of maternal deaths remained unchanged after four decades. In this commentary, we argue that not all countries with high maternal deaths had high MMR; the lower MMR was noted as shadowing the large number of maternal deaths in countries with high rates of total births.
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