Online Webcast: “Because Tomorrow Needs Her” sponsored by Doctors Without Borders, Wednesday, March 4 at 7pm
Because Tomorrow Needs Her
Online Webcast
Wednesday, March 4
7:30PM EST
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans
Frontières (MSF) would like to invite you to attend a special webcast marking the launch of Because Tomorrow Needs Her, a multimedia campaign highlighting MSF’s efforts to provide accessible, high-quality health care to women and girls around the world.
Because Tomorrow Needs Her is a collection of first-hand accounts from MSF aid workers –midwives, OBGYNs, physicians, nurses, and counselors – who have treated women and girls in a host of different countries and contexts over the past two decades.
Women have distinct health needs that men do not have, starting with those related to the ability to get pregnant and bear children. In the absence of care, however, those needs can turn into risks. This is why 800 women die every day from pregnancy-related causes, when most of these deaths could easily be prevented. And while we know how to keep HIV-positive mothers from passing the virus to their babies, 700 children are born with HIV every day. What’s more, victims of sexual violence go without medical or psychological care, because the care they need is too often beyond their reach. MSF treated more than 11,000 victims of sexual violence in 34 countries in 2013; around 95 percent of them were women and girls.
Why does this gap in health care services for women exist? What can be done about it? What is MSF doing already and what does the organization hope it can do in the future?
Nina Strochlic of The Daily Beast will lead a discussion on March 4th at 7:30pm EST on these and other questions related to women’s health care. She will be joined by MSF field workers and one of the project’s photojournalists, who will share stories of women they’ve been able to help, those they haven’t, and what still needs to be done. Viewing is free, but advance registration is required. To find out more, visit our event page or follow us at #TomorrowNeedsHer
