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National
Women’s Health Week starts each year on Mother’s Day to encourage women and
girls to make their health a priority. Learn more about how to live a safer
and healthier life!
Factors Associated with Use of HIV Prevention and
Health Care Among Transgender Women — Seven Urban Areas, 2019–2020
Transgender
women are disproportionately affected by HIV. Ensuring access to basic
needs, such as housing, food, and income, and providing gender-affirming
health care could improve access to and use of HIV prevention and treatment
services by transgender women.
CDC LOCATe:
Discrepancies Between Self-Reported Level of Maternal Care and
LOCATe-assessed Level of Maternal Care Among 463 Birth Facilities
Two in
five facilities self-report a level of maternal care (LoMC) higher than
their LOCATe®-assessed LoMC, indicating discrepancies between perceived
maternal care capabilities and those recommended in current LoMC
guidelines. Results highlight an opportunity for states to engage with
facilities, health systems, and other stakeholders about LoMC and
collaborate to strengthen systems for improving maternal care delivery.
Context Matters: Strategies to Improve Maternal
and Newborn Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa
Identifying
context-appropriate features to maximize the effectiveness of maternal and
newborn health interventions in sub-Saharan Africa is a prerequisite to
successful programs.
Malignant Mesothelioma Mortality in Women -
United States, 1999-2020
To
characterize deaths associated with mesothelioma and temporal trends in
mesothelioma mortality among women in the United States, CDC analyzed
annual Multiple Cause of Death records. The largest number of deaths was
associated with the health care and social assistance industry (89; 15.7%)
and homemaker occupation (129; 22.8%). Maintenance of efforts to limit
exposure to asbestos, fibers, including among women should receive
consideration.
Seven years later: State Neonatal
Risk-Appropriate Care Policy Consistency with the 2012 American Academy of
Pediatrics Policy
States
improved consistency of policy language by each level of care, though half
of states still need policy to provide minimum standards of care to the
most vulnerable infants.
Improving Maternal and Reproductive Health in
Kigoma, Tanzania: A 13-Year Initiative
The
program in Kigoma demonstrates that decentralizing high-quality maternal
and reproductive health services in remote, low-resource settings is both
feasible and effective and could be considered in places with similar
contexts. By embedding the program in the existing health system, and
through efforts to build local capacity, the improvements seen in Kigoma
may be sustained.
A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Emergency
Obstetric and Newborn Care in Kigoma, Tanzania
Decentralizing
high-quality comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC)
delivered mostly by associate clinicians and nurses led to significant
improvements in the availability and utilization of lifesaving care at
birth in Kigoma. Dedicated efforts to sustain high-quality EmONC along with
supplemental programmatic components contributed to the reduction of
maternal and perinatal mortality.
Survey of Incidence, Lifetime Prevalence, and
Treatment of Self-reported Vulvovaginal Candidiasis, United States, 2020
Vulvovaginal
candidiasis (VVC) remains a common infection in the United States. This
analysis supports known clinical risk factors for VVC and suggests that
antifungal treatment use is high, underscoring the need to ensure
appropriate diagnosis and treatment.
Arsenic in Private Well Water and Birth Outcomes
in the United States
In this
largest epidemiologic study of arsenic and birth outcomes to date, authors
did not observe associations of modeled arsenic estimates in private wells
with gestational age and found modest inverse associations with term birth
weight.
COVID-19
Impact on Women
Changes in Rates of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study in the United States,
2019-2020
The
authors examined differences in pregnancy outcomes during the COVID-19
pandemic compared to the previous year. Among 663,620 deliveries occurring
in 2019 and 614,093 deliveries occurring in 2020, authors observed an
increase in in-hospital maternal death from 2019 to 2020, which was no
longer statistically significant after excluding deliveries with a COVID-19
diagnosis.
Post-Authorization Surveillance of Adverse Events
Following COVID-19 Vaccines in Pregnant Persons in the Vaccine Adverse
Event Reporting System (VAERS), December 2020 - October 2021
Review of
reports to Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System following COVID-19
vaccines in pregnant persons did not identify any concerning patterns of
maternal or infant-fetal outcomes.
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