AREN’T I A WOMAN DESERVING OF JUSTICE? RESTRUCTURING VAWA’S FUNDING STRUCTURE TO CREATE RACIAL AND GENDER EQUITY by Maryam Asenuga

“…This directly harms Black women due to this community’s historically negative relationship with the legal system. …”
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Adherence with Drug Therapy in Pregnancy by Doreen Matsui

“…On the one hand, pregnant women may be motivated to keep their underlying disease under control, while, on the other hand, fear and anxiety regarding the potential harmful effects of their medication on their unborn child may result in poor adherence with needed medication. …”
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A Digital Parenting Intervention With Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Content: Quantitative Pre-Post Pilot Study by Moa Schafer, Jamie Lachman, Paula Zinser, Francisco Antonio Calderón Alfaro, Qing Han, Chiara Facciola, Lily Clements, Frances Gardner, Genevieve Haupt Ronnie, Ross Sheil

“…Exploratory analyses indicated significant pre-post reductions in overall IPV experience among women in South Africa (P=.01) and Jamaica (P=.01) and in men’s overall harmful IPV attitudes (P=.01) and increases in men’s overall gender-equitable behaviors (P=.02) in South Africa. …”
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The UK Breast Cancer in Pregnancy (UKBCiP) Study. Incidence, diagnosis, management and short-term outcomes of breast cancer first diagnosed during pregnancy in the United Kingdom:... by Marian Knight, Andrew Brand, Claudia Hardy, Philip Banfield, Julie Jones

“…Three women had major maternal morbidity during pregnancy. …”
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Association between heavy metal exposure and bacterial vaginosis: A cross-sectional study. by Yu-Xue Feng, Ming-Zhi Tan, Hui-Han Qiu, Jie-Rong Chen, Si-Zhe Wang, Ze-Min Huang, Xu-Guang Guo

“…Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a prevalent cause of vaginal symptoms in women of reproductive age. With the widespread of heavy metal pollutants and their harmful function on women's immune and hormonal systems, it is necessary to explore the association between heavy metal exposure and BV. …”
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PHYTOREMEDIATION OF THE HEAVY METALS COPPER, LEAD, CADMIUM, NICKEL AND COBALT USING SOME PLANT SPECIES OF THE ASTERACEAE FAMILY by I. M. Khalaf, A. T. Hameed, A. O. Talak, K. M. Nasir

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Synthesis of Metal/Silica/Titania Composites for the Photocatalytic Removal of Methylene Blue Dye by Sana Ahmad, Arfa Saeed

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Gender-based violence and child nutrition in fragile settings: exploring intersections and opportunities for evidence generation by Sarah R Meyer, Luissa Vahedi, Elisabeth Roesch, Christine Heckman, Silvia Bhatt Carreno, Andrew Beckingham, Megan Gayford, Manuela Orjuela-Grimm

“…Gender-based violence (GBV) is disproportionately perpetrated against women and girls, due to harmful gender and social norms, structural gender-based power inequalities and pervasive discrimination against women and girls globally. …”
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Prevalence of and factors associated with tobacco smoking in the Gambia: a national cross-sectional study by Abu Naser Zafar Ullah, Md Shariful Islam, Md Golam Rabbani, Haifaa AlWajeah, Md Ferdous, Nusrat Sharmin Mahfuza, Daniel Konka, Eva Silenga

“…Objectives To examine the prevalence of and risk factors associated with tobacco smoking in the Gambia.Design A nationwide cross-sectional study.Setting The Gambia.Participants The study participants were both women and men aged between 15 and 49 years old. We included 16,066 men and women in our final analysis.Data analysis We analysed data from the Gambia Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), 2019–2020. …”
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The Association between Deoxyribonucleic Acid Hypermethylation in Intron VII and Human Leukocyte Antigen-C∗07 Expression in Patients with Endometriosis by Wenrong Zhao, Lei Lei, Rui Chen, Yanmin Zhang, Linlin Chang, Jingxin Cheng

“…Endometriosis, which is a common disease affecting approximately 10% of women of reproductive age, usually causes dysmenorrhea and infertility, thus seriously harming the patients’ physical and mental health. …”
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Potential Role of African Fermented Indigenous Vegetables in Maternal and Child Nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa by Marie Lys Irakoze, Eliud N. Wafula, Eddy Owaga

“…Fermented foods (vegetables) are superior in quality and safety since most microorganisms involved in fermentation are good starter cultures that can inhibit the growth of foodborne pathogens and detoxify harmful compounds in foods. Thus, fermented foods can boost growth and well-being in children and women due to their higher nutritional contents. …”
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Predictors of physical and mental health among unemployed people in Greece by Dimitra Latsou, Mary Geitona

“…Introduction: Unexpected changes such as unemployment are harmful to an individual’s physical and mental health. …”

Enhancing misogyny detection in bilingual texts using explainable AI and multilingual fine-tuned transformers by Ehtesham Hashmi, Sule Yildirim Yayilgan, Muhammad Mudassar Yamin, Mohib Ullah

“…Online misogyny represents a harmful societal issue, threatening to transform digital platforms into environments that are hostile and inhospitable to women. …”
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Does TikTok Addiction exist? A qualitative study by Pasquale Caponnetto, Ines Lanzafame, Graziella Chiara Prezzavento, Abdulnaser Fakhrou, Vittorio Lenzo, Alberto Sardella, Mahmoud Ali Moussa, Maria C. Quattropani

“…Women demonstrated a higher likelihood of developing PTU, particularly when using TikTok for over six hours daily and displaying significant emotional and cognitive ties to its content. …”
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Problems of improving the national legislation on labor protection by K. Yu. Melnyk

“…At the same time, the main law in the field of labor – the Code of Labor Laws of Ukraine in Chapter XII, dedicated to the protection of women’s labor, does not use these terms, but establishes guarantees, in particular, for women who have children under the age of three, and women who have children aged three to fourteen or children with disabilities. …”
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Attitude towards the Practice of Female Genital Cutting among School Boys and Girls in Somali and Harari Regions, Eastern Ethiopia by Asresash D. Abathun, Abdi A. Gele, Johanne Sundby

“…Female genital cutting (FGC) is a harmful traditional practice that violates women’s rights and threatens their health. …”
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The use of paracetamol during pregnancy: A qualitative study and possible strategies for a clinical trial. by Cathrine Vedel, Ditte Staub Jørgensen, David Møbjerg Kristensen, Olav Bjørn Petersen, Gorm Greisen

“…In a potential clinical trial, the women would need to be included early in the 1st trimester as the suspected harmful effects of APAP lies within this early reproductive developmental window. …”
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Determination of Dabigatran Concentration in Human Plasma and Breast Milk by F. Sidgwick, A. Porter, P. Ayuk, F. Kamali, A. Truemann

“…Dabigatran etexilate can be a useful prophylaxis in susceptible women during the postpartum period. However, it is not clear whether dabigatran is excreted into breast milk in amounts which can be harmful to the suckling baby. …”
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Female Genital Mutilation in Infants and Young Girls: Report of Sixty Cases Observed at the General Hospital of Abobo (Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire, West Africa) by Kouie Plo, Kouadio Asse, Dohagneron Seï, John Yenan

“…Amongst 409 mothers, 250 women underwent FGM which had other daughters cut. …”
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Female genital mutilation among children in Ethiopia: A time-to-event analysis of age at circumcision. by Michael Arthur Ofori, Daniel Biftu Bekalo, David Kwamena Mensah, Niharika Jha

“…It is a deeply entrenched harmful practice involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons. …”
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