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Engaging fathers and families in maternal and newborn healthcare saves lives. It takes a village to raise a child. Follow all the latest research here.

Category: Violence prevention

Love conquers: how loving couple relationships support the caring role of fathers and their challenge of community gender norms

In Violence prevention, Great projects, Respectful maternal healthcareTags informing families, respectful care, housework, gender, Tanzania, parental relationship, Zimbabwe, coparenting1st October 2019

An evaluation of Plan International programmes in Tanzania and Zimbabwe seeking to engage men in maternal and newborn health found an outcome that was not sought by researchers at the …

How family inclusive maternal health services should address IPV (Norway)

In Violence preventionTags on-line information, informing families, violence, Norway12th May 2017

A group of Norwegian researchers asked 8 mothers living in crisis shelters as a result of intimate partner violence (IPV) what they thought midwives should do for pregnant women who …

New measure of “gender-based household maltreatment” proposed (India)

In Violence preventionTags violence, housework, gender19th November 2016

A study of 1039 women in Mumbai has investigated the extent of non-violent “gender based household maltreatment” (GBHM) by husbands and in-laws. A woman was recorded as having experienced GBHM …

Challenging gender based violence through engaging men in maternal health care (Zimbabwe)

In Violence preventionTags gender, Zimbabwe10th November 2015

This article was inspired by the report on the work of the Women’s Action Group in Zimbabwe with Zim men, reported in The Herald. In Zimbabwe, the Women’s Action Group …