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Pregnant in the Time of Ebola

Women and Their Children in the 2013-2015 West African Epidemic

David A. Schwartz; Julienne Ngoundoung Anoko; Sharon A. Abramowitz

978-3-319-97637-2

2019
Edition 1
- Is the first book (and potentially only book) to discuss the effects of the 2013-2015 West African Ebola epidemic on women, pregnancy, infants, and children
- Is the authoritative book in this field, due to the wide range of expertise of the authors, together with the central role that they and their institutions played during the Ebola epidemic
- Is unique in using a combined multi-specialty approach to the problems and potential solutions of the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, incorporating the opinions of internationally known experts in clinical medicine, anthropology and the social sciences, public health, epidemiology, midwifery, nursing, and other fields
- Includes experts from Europe and the United States, as well as local West African experts who were directly involved in the outbreak
- Includes the viewpoints and experiences of authors from multiple international agencie
- Is comprehensive, with 30 chapters that include numerous illustrative photographs, figures, maps, and diagrams all dealing with issues regarding women (both pregnant and non-pregnant), infants, and children in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia during the Ebola epidemic
- s who were deployed to the outbreak, including UNICEF, Partners in Health, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), International Rescue Committee, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Health Service of Great Britain, UNFPA, The Carter Center, and others
- Addresses issues of importance to the care of women and their children during a multinational epidemic of a life-threatening infectious disease. These include biomedical complications of pregnancy, access to obstetrical care, maternal and infant clinical outcomes, effects of the epidemic on healthcare for non-pregnant women, birthing roles, roles of anthropologists and social scientists, gender-based violence and obstetrical violence, stigmatization, training and use of midwives and traditional birth attendants, teenage pregnancy, survivorship issues, deployment of international workers and the emergency response, Ebola treatment centers, and others
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