Latest from Doctors Without Borders (MSF):
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Women on the frontline: Defying the consequences of conflict to care for each other
In contexts of conflict and war around the world, women are fulfilling indispensable roles to address the healthcare needs of other women in their communities as well as providing important links to care by organisations such as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Women’s regular health needs do not disappear when conflict erupts or war breaks out. Instead, they become more critical, as women struggle to obtain adequate food, safe drinking water or basic sanitation. They also often lose access to contraception, maternity care, or protection from sexually transmitted infections, and become increasingly exposed to incidents of sexual and intimate partner violence.
As a result, women face a heightened likelihood of becoming sick or dying, which is why they need dedicated and comprehensive health services and protection as a priority as part of any humanitarian response.
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Read the rest here: https://www.msf.org/women-frontline-defying-consequences-conflict-care-each-other
@c_9 @mmasnick Right, but this is akin to the gun lobby actively preventing research on gun violence, and then claiming that guns don’t cause an increase in violence.
As a game developer who lived through the whole moral panic surrounding violence in video games, this is a different beast. The scale of social media makes it very difficult to ascertain whether it’s a net good or bad, or whether regulation can improve things if the big social media platforms won’t open their data to researchers.
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