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Health Network for Babies, Children, and Mothers
May 6, 2021
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Maria* was 36 weeks pregnant when she arrived at the immigrant shelter in McAllen, Texas, where the US-Mexico border is defined by the Rio Grande. Like so many fleeing violence, that is…
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Mother’s Day: A Young Asylum-Seeker Needing Prenatal Care, Health Network, and #LaborsOfLove
May 3, 2021
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Migrant Clinicians Network
This Mother’s Day, support asylum-seeking mothers to get the care they need for themselves and for their babies.Donate to #LaborsOfLove here. Courage comes in many forms. Often, American holidays…
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Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine: Care for Migrant Women Requires Adjusted Approach
Apr 29, 2021
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Migrant Clinicians Network
After nearly two weeks of looking comprehensively at all the data on vaccines and their potential side effects, scientists made the decision to reinstate the use of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen…
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Winter Streamline: Strategies for Addressing Intimate Partner Violence During the Pandemic
Mar 30, 2021
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Migrant Clinicians Network
IPV and COVID-19 Intimate partner violence is the physical violence, sexual violence, stalking, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse, according to the CDC. A recent…
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Photovoice: Migrant Farmworkers, Sharing Their Lives Through Photography
Dec 2, 2020
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Throughout my career I have used photography and qualitative research to understand communities that are not my own. My work has taken me as far away as Ethiopia, Nepal, and Bangladesh, but my…
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Women’s Conference Creates Virtual Safe Space for Austin-Area Latinas
Nov 19, 2020
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By Diana Cañas, MCN InternEarlier this month, the sixth annual Women’s Conference, hosted by the General Consulate of Mexico in Austin and Migrant Clinicians Network, was virtual. In total, 68 women…
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Position Statement: Medical Injustices and Human Rights Violations in Detention Must End
Sep 24, 2020
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A clinician protests the conditions in migrant detention facilities in Oregon. Credit: @Doctors4CampClosureLast week, a whistleblower complaint was filed describing medical procedures forced on…
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Tu voz importa / Your Voice Matters: New MCN Project Elevates Lives of Migrant Farmworker Women
Jul 1, 2020
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By Ashley-Michelle Papon, Project Coordinator, Migrant Clinicians Network As Bob Dylan once crooned, the times, they are a-changin’. With news events like the disproportionate death toll of…
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Streamline: #MeToo in the Fields: New Video and Curriculum to Eliminate Agricultural Worker Sexual Harassment
Mar 18, 2020
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Claire Hutkins Seda
Cast and crew of training video filming. Yakima, WA | September 2019 By Claire Hutkins Seda, Writer, Migrant Clinicians Network and Managing Editor, Streamline When the #MeToo movement exploded…
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An Asylum Seeker, Her High-Risk Pregnancy, and Deep Vein Thrombosis: A Health Network Case Study
Dec 21, 2019
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Claire Hutkins Seda
Marisa*, a 40-year-old asylum seeker from Central America, was seven months pregnant when she was detained by border patrol. While in custody, she started having difficulty breathing, lower abdomen…
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MCN’s Fifth Annual Women’s Conference: Empowerment, Community Organizing at the Mexican Consulate
Nov 14, 2019
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Migrant Clinicians Network
This weekend, 126 Austin-area Latinas gathered for the annual Women’s Conference, hosted by the Mexican Consulate in Austin and Migrant Clinicians Network. With the late autumn Texan sun…
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Pregnant and Without Health Care: Dr. Adrian Billings on New Public Charge Rule
Oct 15, 2019
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Claire Hutkins Seda
This summer, a woman who was four months pregnant discontinued her Medicaid health care, despite being legally eligible for the coverage, and planned to pay out of pocket for prenatal care,…
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Project Catalyst: Evidence-Based IPV and Trafficking Engagement
Oct 10, 2019
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Claire Hutkins Seda
Juana* had been in an abusive relationship for years. For the last two years, she’d been working with the behavioral health clinician at her local community health center in Arkansas. The…
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Candace Kugel: A Life Serving Immigrant Women and Children
Oct 2, 2019
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Claire Hutkins Seda
Over the course of her decades of care for the underserved, Candace Kugel, FNP, CNM, MS, has delivered hundreds of babies, from Pennsylvania to Honduras, trained hundreds of clinicians to…
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The Bandana Project: Art Activism to Raise Awareness of Sexual Violence Against Farmworker Women
Apr 25, 2019
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Claire Hutkins Seda
Last Tuesday, Roxana Pineda, Migrant Clinicians Network’s Ventanilla de Salud Coordinator, set out crisp white bandanas and an assortment of fabric markers, around a long table. Here at the…
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New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Health Network Case Study Highlighting Social Distance
Mar 22, 2019
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Claire Hutkins Seda
A 39-year-old pregnant farmworker faces numerous health risks. Engaged in heavy physical labor and exposed to pesticides and heat, she may also face poor living conditions, contaminated water, or…
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A Pregnancy and A New HIV Diagnosis: Case Study from Clinician Consultation Center
Mar 8, 2019
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By Carolyn Chu, MD, MSc, Clinical Director of the Clinician Consultation Center An obstetrician working with a local health department called the national Perinatal HIV Hotline about a 29-year-…
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Medical-Legal Partnership: Helping Pregnant Agricultural Workers Avoid Pesticide Exposure with Aaron Voit, Esq.
Aug 7, 2018
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Claire Hutkins Seda
photo credit: Alan PogueIn the spring, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation announced that 209 million pounds of pesticide active ingredients were used in 2016 across the green fields of…
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MCN's Successful 3rd Annual Women's Conference in Austin!
Nov 9, 2017
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Claire Hutkins Seda
Last weekend, Migrant Clinicians Network and our partner the Consulate General of Mexico celebrated a very successful third annual Women’s Conference, titled “Strengthening Women’s Entrepreneurship…
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#metoo. #yotambien. Now what?
Oct 18, 2017
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Facebook’s cute-kid-with-pumpkin photos and gloomy political posts were less prominent this week, as thousands and thousands of women and others -- likely many of your own Facebook friends -- posted…
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Top 4 Reasons To Drop Everything and Read the New Issue of Streamline Now
Mar 30, 2017
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Claire Hutkins Seda
Streamline is here! And we’re convinced that you should share our slightly-over-the-top exuberance on the publication of the latest issue of our quarterly clinical publication. That’s because this…
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The Second Annual Women’s Conference
Nov 16, 2016
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Timing couldn’t have been better for the second annual Women’s Conference on Saturday, November 12th, hosted by the Consulate General of Mexico in Austin through the Ministry of Mexicans Living…
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