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Attacks on Health Care Increased in Ukraine in 2025 Amid Intensifying Russian Drone Strikes
Beyond Emergency Care: Why Sudan’s Humanitarian Response Must Also Protect Essential Health Services – Sudan
More than three years into Sudan’s war, the humanitarian response has rightly focused on the basics of survival: food, shelter, water, and emergency medical care. But another crisis is unfolding quietly alongside it, one that gets far less attention: the slow collapse of the essential health services people rely on every day
The bipartisan Child Care Modernization Act (CCMA) would reauthorize the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), the federal law underlying the nation’s primary child care support program, through fiscal year 2030. The legislation would broaden and clarify eligibility, change how states determine provider payment rates, strengthen support for the child care workforce, establish a supply and facilities…
Attacks on health care were relentless in 2025. Using data collected by Insecurity Insight, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) recorded 2,546 incidents in 33 countries in which damage to or the destruction of health care facilities was reported on at least 790 occasions, 455 health workers were killed, 218 kidnapped and 263 arrested
Prenatal visits might include bloodwork, discussions of due dates, vitamins and ultrasounds. But what if these visits could also improve oral health care among pregnant patients?
Many States Cover Doula Care, but Access to a ‘Birthing Bestie’ Is Often Out of Reach – KFF Health News
Doula Taja Iglesias and her business partner have built a space in Alexandria, Virginia, that’s all things pregnancy, birth, and childcare
Attacks on Health Care Bi-Monthly News Brief, 22 July – 04 August 2026 – occupied Palestinian territory
Using data collected by Insecurity Insight, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) identified190 incidentsof violence against or obstruction of health care across the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 2025. Health workers were arrested, threatened, or injured; health facilities were damaged, violently raided, or surrounded; and ambulances and emergency medical teams were repeatedly delayed,…
The Friday Five: The Latest Child Care and Early Learning News In the NewsAugust 7, 2026
For pregnant women in remote areas, reaching medical care can take days and cost a week’s wages. Distance is one reason a woman in a low-income country is around 35 times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than a woman in a wealthy one, and one reason a baby born in a rural…
Karen Joash | Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK