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Piping plover (Charadrius melodus) chicks and egg. The piping plover is a small, sandy-colored bird with orange legs, a black band across its forehead and a black ring around the base of its neck. The piping plover is designated as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Plover numbers have declined due to habitat loss and disturbance, which lead to poor reproductive success.
Credit: USFWS
SPOTLIGHT SESSION
A Pivotal Window for Reproductive and Maternal Health: How We Can Lead the Vanguard for Availability, Agency, and Access
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. ET
Location: Mercury Ballroom
This is a critical moment for reproductive and maternal health around the world. In recent years, preventable maternal deaths have increased; global resources devoted to comprehensive reproductive and maternal health have remained woefully inadequate; and access to these critical services is increasingly being threatened and outright curtailed. The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision was a massive setback to reproductive rights and the world is watching to see what will happen next. The pandemic, climate change, and humanitarian crises are worsening already massive inequities that threaten the health and well-being of people around the world. Despite the challenges presented, partnerships across the private sector, civil society, government, and the advocacy community can lead the vanguard with solutions centered on clinical innovation, policy change, and shifting culture.
This session will explore:
How can we accelerate solutions to improve maternal and reproductive health, including new technologies, policies, and service delivery?
How can we address pressing global challenges, such as climate change and food insecurity, in ways that recognize the impact on maternal and reproductive health?
How do we develop cross-sector partnerships to accelerate progress toward achieving comprehensive maternal and reproductive health, access, and rights?
Speakers:
Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet, AVP, Health Equity & Lead, Merck for Mothers, Merck & Co., Inc.
Enid Muthoni Ndiga, Chief Programs Officer, Center for Reproductive Rights
Christy Turlington Burns, Founder and President, Every Mother Counts
Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, UNFPA
Dr. Aparna Hegde, Founder and Managing Trustee, ARMMAN
Rt. Hon. Helen Clark, PMNCH Board Chair, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Former Secretary of State
Secretary Xavier Bacerra, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
Molly Jong-Fast, Contributing Writer, The Atlantic
Photo Credit: Beatrice Moritz / Clinton Foundation
SPOTLIGHT SESSION
A Pivotal Window for Reproductive and Maternal Health: How We Can Lead the Vanguard for Availability, Agency, and Access
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. ET
Location: Mercury Ballroom
This is a critical moment for reproductive and maternal health around the world. In recent years, preventable maternal deaths have increased; global resources devoted to comprehensive reproductive and maternal health have remained woefully inadequate; and access to these critical services is increasingly being threatened and outright curtailed. The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision was a massive setback to reproductive rights and the world is watching to see what will happen next. The pandemic, climate change, and humanitarian crises are worsening already massive inequities that threaten the health and well-being of people around the world. Despite the challenges presented, partnerships across the private sector, civil society, government, and the advocacy community can lead the vanguard with solutions centered on clinical innovation, policy change, and shifting culture.
This session will explore:
How can we accelerate solutions to improve maternal and reproductive health, including new technologies, policies, and service delivery?
How can we address pressing global challenges, such as climate change and food insecurity, in ways that recognize the impact on maternal and reproductive health?
How do we develop cross-sector partnerships to accelerate progress toward achieving comprehensive maternal and reproductive health, access, and rights?
Speakers:
Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet, AVP, Health Equity & Lead, Merck for Mothers, Merck & Co., Inc.
Enid Muthoni Ndiga, Chief Programs Officer, Center for Reproductive Rights
Christy Turlington Burns, Founder and President, Every Mother Counts
Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, UNFPA
Dr. Aparna Hegde, Founder and Managing Trustee, ARMMAN
Rt. Hon. Helen Clark, PMNCH Board Chair, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Former Secretary of State
Secretary Xavier Bacerra, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
Molly Jong-Fast, Contributing Writer, The Atlantic
Photo Credit: Beatrice Moritz / Clinton Foundation
Yes, they are mating at this very moment and so caught up in it that I slowly crept in close and got about 10 shots with my macro! In amongst the branches.
Notice how they are pressing their abdomens together. The abdomen contains the bulk of the digestive, excretory and, at the end, the reproductive organs.
Metamorphosis is the series of developmental stages insects go through to become adults. Butterflies and moths have four stages: egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (chrysalis), and adult. It takes a Monarch Butterfly just 30 to 40 days to complete its life cycle, with warmer temperatures generally being responsible for faster development.
Monarch females lay their eggs on Milkweed, the only plant Monarch caterpillars can eat. The eggs are laid singly and generally on the undersides of leaves. The whitish eggs are about the size of a period at the end of a sentence. Three to six days later, they hatch into tiny caterpillars.
The newly hatched caterpillar is so small it can barely be seen but grows quickly, feeding on nothing but Milkweed leaves. In 9 to 14 days it's full grown, about 2" long. The caterpillar has eight pairs of stubby legs. The first three pair of legs will become the butterfly's legs. Like a snake or a crab, a Monarch caterpillar sheds its skin five times during the larval stage.
When the caterpillar is full grown it usually leaves the milkweed plant and can crawl 30 to 40 feet from the milkweed) to find a safe place to pupate. The caterpillar creates a silk-like mat, attaches its last pair of legs to it, and allows itself to drop and hangs upside down in a J-shape for approximately one day.
The caterpillar's skin is shed for the last time as it passes from the larval (caterpillar) stage to the pupa (chrysalis) stage of metamorphosis. This time there is a jade green casing (chrysalis) under the caterpillar's skin. Immediately after the skin is shed, the inch long chrysalis is soft. Looking at the pupae, you can still see the ribbed body of the caterpillar inside. Then the chrysalis hardens to a beautiful jade green. Dramatic changes occur inside. The mouth parts transform from those needed for chewing into a straw-like tongue (proboscis) which the butterfly will need to sip nectar from flowers.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Windged, reproductive Crematogaster ants (?) swarming. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
More tropical ants: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2012/04/tropical-ants.html
Illustration layering both female and male reproductive organs together in an abstract and blurred way. I wanted to show how similar the two sexes are and yet create a graphic which isn't strictly scientific. Inspired by stained glass window designs by Henri Matisse and the symmetrical lines found within art deco.
Colorized transmission electron micrograph of the ovary from a nonhuman primate infected with Ebola virus. Characteristic filamentous Ebola virus particles are present between cells (bright red). Intracytoplasmic Ebola virus inclusion bodies forming crystalline arrays can be seen within ovarian stromal cells (darker red).
More information: www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/ebola-virus-infects...
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Publisher: International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, FIGO, December 2015.
Widespread exposure to toxic environmental chemicals threatens healthy human reproduction. Industrial chemicals are used and discarded in every aspect of daily life and are ubiquitous in food, water, air, and consumer products. Exposure to environmental chemicals and metals permeates all parts of life across the globe. Toxic chemicals enter the environment through food and energy production, industrial emissions and accidents, waste, transportation, and the making, use, and disposal of consumer and personal care products.
Overview
* Introduction
* Vulnerable people, communities, and populations
* Nature and extent of prenatal and preconception exposure to toxic environmental chemicals
* Health impacts of preconception and prenatal exposure to toxic environmental chemicals
* Global health and economic burden related to toxic environmental chemicals
* Recommendation for prevention
* Conclusions
Sources and more information
* Flickr album DES and EDCs Research.
* Global Obstetrics and Gynaecology group warn of harm to babies from toxic chemicals in consumer products, HEAL, 1 October 2015.
* Download the full PDF.
* Our Endocrine Disruptors video playlist and posts tagged EDCs.
This is before they came and got me and wheeled me into the operating room. I was starting to hurt a bit, as the pain medication I had taken the night before was finally wearing off (oxycodone ~ thank God it's 12 hour) but overall was feeling ok. I was looking forward to having the source of the pain *GONE* and out of my life. I wasn't as nervous as I usually am before surgery at this point... I was mostly just thinking, "OK let's get this over with..."
One of the surgery assistants came and he wheeled me down the hall, to the elevator... Erik came behind us and held my hand in the elevator, and then we parted ways ~ he went to get coffee and wait in the waiting area, and I, into the OR area. The assistant wheeled me over to a wall, and said, "OK wait here, we'll come and get you in a minute," and walked off to go talk about the iPad with some other people who looked like other surgery assistants.
A few minutes later the anesthesiologist came and spoke with me about what would be going on, asked out my medical history, confirmed that I'm the patient they thought I was, and then he patted my hand and said the doctor would be out to speak with me in a minute.
So then there was a little more waiting, in which time I was still laying on the bed in the hallway, listening to the conversations in the hall around me and trying not to start feeling really incredibly nervous... and then my doctor came out and spoke with me. We went over some last minute things, concerns and such, and she told me what was going to happen during and after surgery, and I asked if I could use a restroom and she reassured me that I would have a catheter during surgery but that of course it was ok if I went before, too. A nurse came and showed me to a bathroom, and I went (I'm always super nervous before surgery and have to pee even when I don't really have to pee :p )... And then I got back on the bed and they wheeled me into the operating room. ~ I didn't really pay much attention to the room itself (or if I did I don't remember it, which is more likely). The only thing I remember is that there was an instrument that was covered in what looked like a long black tea cosy, and I was thinking, Is that the Laparoscope?? If so how is it possibly sterile?! ~ And there was white tile and white sheets, and a big circular thingy ... Zac you're probably laughing at this description right now, I have no idea what all this stuff was. It was like a circle with lights set into a big white boxy thingy (and the machine that goes *Ping!*). Oh and a window area that looked like where people go to wash up...?
Anyway... They had me move over to the operating table and they laid me down. I felt someone (a nurse?) place their hands on the sides of my head and stroke my forehead a little, reassuring... Then the anesthesiologist said, "OK things are going to get a little fuzzy around the edges, just go ahead and let yourself go to sleep," and I started counting backward in my head from 99 (habit left over from the other times I've been under). By 96 I was starting to wonder what the next number would be :: lol :: At about 94 my eyes kept closing and I could feel the surgery tech people or nurses, whoever it was doing it, strapping my legs and arms down to the table (common so that patients don't fall off I guess?) ~ and by 90 everything was suddenly very soft and black.
Next thing I knew I was waking up shaking and spazzing and hurting a *LOT*, and feeling really sick to my stomach, and then arguing with the nurse because she gave me the wrong medicine (she gave me fentanyl, which it even says in my chart I react badly to :: grr :: )... and then arguing with her again minutes later because she wouldn't let me get up and go to the bathroom. ~ Post-anesthesia recovery was the worst time I had honestly... after they finally agreed to let me go to the bathroom (this was after they threatened to call security on me ~ HA HA HA :p :p ~ they decided I was well enough to be discharged, and had someone come and wheel me back upstairs. I must have slept for that part, because I don't remember that at all...
Next thing I remember I was back in this room, the room I was in before surgery, and Erik came in and saw me and gave me hugs, and helped me get dressed. A nurse came with a wheelchair, and Erik went and got the car and... then I was able to go home! =]
Sexual and reproductive rights have been recognized as human rights and key to assuring equitable development. Implementing these rights, however, remains a challenge. Latin America and the Caribbean have some of the most restrictive reproductive health laws and policies in the world, particularly regarding abortion. These have been found to be largely responsible for the region’s high proportional rate of maternal death as a result of unsafe abortion. The legislative landscape is changing in some countries, however. With Chile’s recent decriminalization of abortion in three specific cases and two bills pending in El Salvador’s Congress that would repeal their total abortion ban, the region may be trending toward liberalizing policies and regulations regarding reproductive rights.
To better understand the current state of sexual and reproductive rights in the region and what changes may be in the offing, the Dialogue is pleased to partner with the Center for Reproductive Rights and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law to host some of the region’s top analysts, activists, and lawmakers for an open and frank exchange on the issues surrounding sexual and reproductive rights. This forum will review legal advances and setbacks in several countries and consider possible future scenarios, such as the lingering effects of the Zika virus. We will also ask what impact factors such as high rates of sexual violence, access to information, sex education, and emergency contraception may have on ensuring respect for reproductive freedom as a human right.
Sexual and reproductive rights have been recognized as human rights and key to assuring equitable development. Implementing these rights, however, remains a challenge. Latin America and the Caribbean have some of the most restrictive reproductive health laws and policies in the world, particularly regarding abortion. These have been found to be largely responsible for the region’s high proportional rate of maternal death as a result of unsafe abortion. The legislative landscape is changing in some countries, however. With Chile’s recent decriminalization of abortion in three specific cases and two bills pending in El Salvador’s Congress that would repeal their total abortion ban, the region may be trending toward liberalizing policies and regulations regarding reproductive rights.
To better understand the current state of sexual and reproductive rights in the region and what changes may be in the offing, the Dialogue is pleased to partner with the Center for Reproductive Rights and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law to host some of the region’s top analysts, activists, and lawmakers for an open and frank exchange on the issues surrounding sexual and reproductive rights. This forum will review legal advances and setbacks in several countries and consider possible future scenarios, such as the lingering effects of the Zika virus. We will also ask what impact factors such as high rates of sexual violence, access to information, sex education, and emergency contraception may have on ensuring respect for reproductive freedom as a human right.
Smoking and gynaecology
1. The harmful effects of smoking on reproductive health of women: Secondhand smoke causes a lot of harm to the reproductive health of women with serious consequences, especially birth rates in women who smoke are less than 30% compared to women who did not smoke....
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Sexual and reproductive rights have been recognized as human rights and key to assuring equitable development. Implementing these rights, however, remains a challenge. Latin America and the Caribbean have some of the most restrictive reproductive health laws and policies in the world, particularly regarding abortion. These have been found to be largely responsible for the region’s high proportional rate of maternal death as a result of unsafe abortion. The legislative landscape is changing in some countries, however. With Chile’s recent decriminalization of abortion in three specific cases and two bills pending in El Salvador’s Congress that would repeal their total abortion ban, the region may be trending toward liberalizing policies and regulations regarding reproductive rights.
To better understand the current state of sexual and reproductive rights in the region and what changes may be in the offing, the Dialogue is pleased to partner with the Center for Reproductive Rights and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law to host some of the region’s top analysts, activists, and lawmakers for an open and frank exchange on the issues surrounding sexual and reproductive rights. This forum will review legal advances and setbacks in several countries and consider possible future scenarios, such as the lingering effects of the Zika virus. We will also ask what impact factors such as high rates of sexual violence, access to information, sex education, and emergency contraception may have on ensuring respect for reproductive freedom as a human right.
January 22, 2019- Albany, NY- Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signs Reproductive Health Act Legislation during a ceremony in the Red Room at the State Capitol.
The Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health & Rights (ASRH&R) campaign was held as a continuation to promote ASRH&R among the youth in Rwanda.
Having been launched in Collège de Butamwa in Nyarugenge on 23 August 2016, the continuation of the campaign was conducted in Gishambashayo Primary School also located in Rubaya sector, Gicumbi District on 23 September 2016.
The ASRH&R campaign is conducted in partnership with The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, to promote access to youth friendly services and advocates for the rights of young people to access quality reproductive health information.
The campaign empowers the youth with ASRH&R comprehensive knowledge and promotes positive attitudes, while advocating for the increased use of ASRH&R youth friendly services in health facilities, and in the community.
Students at the school attended the campaign, and used the free voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) services provided on the day.
Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion (MIGEPROF), Henriette Umulisa and the Vice Mayor of Gicumbi Charlotte Benihirwe delivered the key messages at the event.
Camponotus fulvopilosus (De Geer, 1778). Thanks to Philip Herbst for providing the species determination in comments below. Found at Bontebok National Park, S of Swellendam. Western Cape, South Africa.
A beautiful Camponotus sp. This nest was seemingly under an embedded rock off of Termite Loop Trail. There is one winged reproductive visible in the picture (I added a rollover note indicating where it is).
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-24EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie diffuser.
Mayor Eric Adams visits a reproductive health clinic to make clear New York City will continue to support access to abortions and other reproductive health options despite last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision. Lincoln Hospital, Bronx. Monday, June 27, 2022. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.
Saturday, February 8, 2014, Shaw Univesity, Raleigh North Carolina. Under cold grey skies a broad, diverse coalition of around 35,000* social justice activists mobilized by the Moral Monday Movement rallied in downtown Raleigh. After gathering at Shaw University and marching to the front of the North Carolina State Capitol they were addressed by a number of speakers including the fiery Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II. A range of related Issues raised by the demonstrators and speakers included voting suppression and civil rights, racism, the impoverishment and corporate hijacking of the education system, poverty and the minimum wage, labor rights, LGBT rights, reproductive rights, immigration reform, access to healthcare for all and environmental justice. This watershed day in the evolution of the US civil rights movement was largely ignored by the corporate media. Thumbs up to the Raleigh Police Department for their civilized and respectful presence at the event. There were no arrests. The Raleigh officers wore dignified uniforms with cloth hats, not the ostentatious and threatening gear we're used to seeing on the overarmed militarized police in our hometown of Washington DC.
*My crowd estimates are usually very conservative; other commentators claim 80,000-100,000.
January 22, 2019- Albany, NY- Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signs Reproductive Health Act Legislation during a ceremony in the Red Room at the State Capitol.
No Sex Education Please, We're Arab
CAIRO, Nov 22, 2010 (IPS) - Civil society has warned of adverse social and health consequences after the Egyptian government ordered the removal of content related to male and female anatomy, reproductive health and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) from the school curriculum.
The reproductive superiority of a wood engraving over a half-tone for catalogue work is shown in this image of a Skilsaw from the 1950s. It was made in the workshop of the last commercial engraving company, Sanders Engraving of Chicago, IL.
July 13, 2018--Brooklyn--Governor Andrew M. Cuomo was joined today by Brooklyn leaders at a rally to fight to protect women's reproductive rights and to call on the Senate to return to Albany to codify Roe v. Wade into New York State Law. The rally follows the federal government's decision Monday night to nominate Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo also called on the Senate to reconvene and vote to pass legislation to expand the photos speed violation monitoring systems or speed cameras program for school speed zones in New York City. Governor Cuomo has staunchly supported the speed camera program, introducing his own program bill, and the Assembly passed similar legislation during the 2018 legislative session. (Kevin Coughlin/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)
“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.”
Og Mandino quotes (American Essayist and Psychologist, 1923-1996)
I wish you have a fulfilling life.
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The vast majority of women living with HIV are of reproductive age: from 18 to 45 years old. Almost half of these women learned about their HIV-positive status during pregnancy, and many women gave birth to healthy children thanks to the programmes on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Yet women living with HIV are still subject to discrimination, prejudice and stigma among healthcare workers (Charitable Organization Positive Women, 2016).
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Credits: Dana Rvana
IVF is a dynamic series of methods used to support an infant's design or reproduction or prevent genetic problems. IVF is the best-supported reproductive technology which is the most powerful nowadays.
www.99healthideas.com/ivf-treatment-a-type-of-assistive-r...
Scenes from the GA 72 Side Event: The Role of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Economic Empowerment of Women
Co-hosted by the Governments of Costa Rica, Finland and Zambia, in collaboration with UNFPA and UN Women, this high-level breakfast event will review the critical links between sexual and reproductive health and rights and women’s full participation in economic development. The event will provide a platform for participants to share knowledge and experience, to strengthen awareness and to leverage commitment on realizing women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and their economic empowerment. Expected event speakers include Vice President of Costa Rica Ana Helena Chacón Echeverría, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, Finland, Kai Mykkänen, Minister of Gender, Zambia, Victoria Kalima, UNFPA Acting Executive Director Natalia Kanem, and UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, among others.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown