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PIP: Named after the first female doctor in the Dominican Republic and established in 1987 with the goal of providing high-quality services in a welcoming atmosphere at low prices, the Evangelina Rodriguez Maternal and Child Health Clinic now serves 80% of all residents of north Santo Domingo city. The center's 6 physicians and 3 nurse's aides provide maternal and child health care, including family planning and gynecological services, to 300 people daily in a marginalized area of the city where people live in overcrowded neighborhoods. The Director of Services in the southern region of PROFAMILIA, the family planning association in the Dominican Republic, supervises the clinic's services. Another of PROFAMILIA's clinics is named after an advocate of women's rights in the country, Rosa Cisneros, a lawyer who was murdered in her home, in San Salvador, on August 18, 1981, in the context of a civil war in the country. The Rosa Cisneros Clinic in Santiago de los Caballeros has 16 employees, including administrative staff, counselors, doctors, and nurses who serve almost 300 people per day.^ieng
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Planejamento em Saúde , Liderança , Centros de Saúde Materno-Infantil , Organizações , Medicina Reprodutiva , População Urbana , América , Região do Caribe , Comunicação , Atenção à Saúde , Demografia , Países em Desenvolvimento , República Dominicana , Serviços de Planejamento Familiar , Saúde , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Serviços de Saúde , América Latina , América do Norte , População , Características da População , Atenção Primária à SaúdeRESUMO
PIP: This news brief presents the US President's wife's statement on the association between use of family planning and a decline in abortions worldwide. Hillary Rodham Clinton attended the Sixth Conference of Wives of Heads of State and Government of the Americas held in La Paz, Bolivia. The conference was suitably located in Bolivia, a country with the highest rates of maternal mortality in South America. Bolivia has responded by launching a national family planning campaign coordinated between government, nongovernmental, and medical organizations. Half of Bolivian women experience pregnancy and childbirth without the support of trained medical staff. Mortality from abortion complications account for about half of all maternal deaths in Bolivia. Voluntary family planning workers teach women about the benefits of child spacing, breast feeding, nutrition, prenatal and postpartum care, and safe deliveries. Bolivia has succeeded in increasing its contraceptive use rates and decreasing the number of safe and unsafe abortions. Bolivia's program effort was supported by USAID. USAID provided technical assistance and funds for the establishment of a network of primary health care clinics. Mrs. Clinton visited one such clinic in a poor neighborhood in La Paz, which in its first six months of operation provided 2200 consultations, delivered 200 babies, registered 700 new family planning users, and immunized 2500 children. Clinics such as this one will be affected by the US Congress's harsh cuts in aid, which reduce funding by 35% and delay program funding by 9 months. These US government cuts in foreign aid are expected to result in an additional 1.6 million abortions, over 8000 maternal deaths, and 134,000 infant deaths in developing countries. An investment in population assistance represents a sensible, cost-effective, and long-term strategy for improving women's health, strengthening families, and reducing abortion.^ieng
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Aborto Induzido , Congressos como Assunto , Liderança , Bem-Estar Materno , Gravidez , Medicina Reprodutiva , Mudança Social , América , Bolívia , Comunicação , Demografia , Países Desenvolvidos , Países em Desenvolvimento , Serviços de Planejamento Familiar , Fertilidade , Saúde , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , América Latina , América do Norte , População , Dinâmica Populacional , Comportamento Sexual , América do Sul , Estados UnidosRESUMO
PIP: In November 1996 during her address to the Sixth Conference of Wives of Heads of State and Government of the Americas in La Paz, Colombia, and in her weekly newspaper column, US first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged her own and the Clinton administration's complete support for reversing the severe reduction in funds for the international family planning program imposed by the 104th Congress. This revelation reflected the administration's preparation for a strong and vocal defense of the international family planning program, which will be facing its greatest political test in February 1997. Bolivia has the highest maternal mortality rate in South America, and half the deaths are due to illegal, unsafe abortions. Mrs. Clinton presented a $2.25 million USAID award to a $5 million Pan American Health Organization program that aims to reduce maternal mortality. In her December 3, 1996, column, she used family planning campaigns in Bolivia as an illustration of sensible, cost-effective, and long-term strategies for improving women's health, strengthening families, and reducing the abortion rate. Such programs educate people about the benefits of birth spacing, breast feeding, good nutrition, prenatal and postpartum visits, and safe deliveries. Mrs. Clinton has also visited other poor countries to learn about the special needs and conditions of women's lives. UN Ambassador Madeleine Albright has recently been nominated to be the first female Secretary of State. Many people see her commitment to improving the status of women through development efforts and her recognition of the close relationship between development and diplomacy as encouraging. The concern and commitment of these two powerful women could prove valuable in the upcoming test for international family planning aid. Congress must vote on a resolution to approve Clinton's report that the reduced funding is having a negative impact no later than February 28. If both the House and the Senate pass the resolution, already appropriated funds will be released in March rather than in July.^ieng
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Estudos de Avaliação como Assunto , Política de Planejamento Familiar , Governo , Planejamento em Saúde , Cooperação Internacional , Liderança , Pessoal Administrativo , América , Bolívia , Comunicação , Países Desenvolvidos , Países em Desenvolvimento , Economia , Serviços de Planejamento Familiar , Administração Financeira , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , América Latina , América do Norte , Organização e Administração , Política Pública , América do Sul , Estados UnidosRESUMO
PIP: In this interview, Alzira Rufino describes her involvement in the feminist movement and what caused her to found the Black Women's House of Culture in Brazil in 1990. Rufino located the center in Santos because it is a port city which sees a great deal of violence and is very sexist and racist. The center, which exists to assist all women, grew out of a Rufino's realization that Black women needed a group to support their rights. The name for the center came from the fact that women have been the keepers of African culture in Brazil. In Brazil, White men dominate the culture, even the cultural expressions produced by Black people such as the Carnival. The center has had to overcome the criticism directed at it because it was created for women and for Black women in particular, and Black feminists are beginning to understand that Black women make up 25% of the population of Brazil and must celebrate their heritage. Increasing the self-esteem of Black women can be instrumental in helping women undergo training for better jobs and to take the initiative to become entrepreneurs. Black women in Brazil are beginning to occupy positions formerly denied them and to denounce the racism and sexism directed toward them.^ieng