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When Hospitals Become Prisons
This document presents the research survey portion of the Hospital ≠ Prison project, and is being sculpted into a series of recommendations that are aimed to shape public policy in Haiti concerning the treatment, welfare, and rights of Haitian patients. Abstract This report presents a research update on the collaborative investigation into the hospital detention…
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On Being Born
The time immediately following birth in Haiti is a special time. It is a time when families pull together in intimate circles of care and embrace the new life and a new mother. During the pregnancy, these families have nourished mothers and the small lives within them, and also been nourished by them. After birthing,…
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Naming the Hospital-Prison
Images of Haitian mothers giving birth, struggling between life and death is an all too familiar image to aid workers and Christaian missionaries working across Haiti. In elite fundraisers across the globe, in megachurches as well as hospital galas, it is used to pull on heartstrings, loosen checkbooks, and invoke feelings of both pity and…
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Not an Exception But a Pattern
There are connections between the reproductive injustice Haitian mothers endure as a result of medical-detention and the obstetric violence against Black and Indigenous mothers in the United States and around the world. The Black maternal and infant birth outcomes in the United States are the worst in any developed country in the world. Black mothers…
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Escaping, Care, and Calling It Out
For David, Guerlande, and Naomi hospital imprisonment, much as they tried to avoid it, was becoming how birth is experienced in their family. What do they and others do to resist the valuations on human bodies that become devaluations of life itself? Guerlande remembers an incident that always stirred her emotionally. It makes her voice…
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Pascal Kakudji Yumba
Pascal Kakudji Yumba, De la séquestration des mamans insolvables et leurs enfants dans les maternités des établissements de santé de Lubumbashi : Cas de l’hôpital général Jason Sendwe in: RiA Recht in Afrika | Law in Africa | Droit en Afrique, page 78 – 96. RiA, Volume 18 (2015), Issue 1, ISSN online: 2363-6270, https://doi.org/10.5771/2363-6270-2015-1-78 This analysis (in…
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“De la séquestration des mamans insolvables et leurs enfants”
Pascal Kakudji Yumba, De la séquestration des mamans insolvables et leurs enfants dans les maternités des établissements de santé de Lubumbashi : Cas de l’hôpital général Jason Sendwe in: RiA Recht in Afrika | Law in Africa | Droit en Afrique, page 78 – 96. RiA, Volume 18 (2015), Issue 1, ISSN online: 2363-6270, https://doi.org/10.5771/2363-6270-2015-1-78 This analysis (in…
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Dr. Karen Cowgill’s Work
Karen Cowgill is an epidemiologist based in Seattle, and was a Visiting Fulbright Fellow to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2016. She has co-authored (with Abel Ntambue) a pivotal article on hospital detention, which includes a mixed methods case study of a maternity ward in Lubumbashi. This article “Hospital detention of mothers and their…
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Meet Alissa of CEE
English Alissa Jordan is an anthropologist, filmmaker, writer, and activist born in Big Pine Key, Florida and living in Philadelphia. She is the co-host of “Birthing Resistance: Stories of Hospital Prison” and the host of “Akouchman ak Rezistans: Lòpital Pa Prizon”. She began confronting hospital detention in mission hospitals in Haiti through the advocacy and…
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Meet China Tolliver
China Tolliver is an emerging photojournalist and human rights activist residing in Denver,CO. China’s passion for activism is rooted in reproductive justice, specifically body autonomy and birth rights. Sharing stories through photojournalism has created opportunities for China to travel globally and engage in cultural collaborative learning. The biggest asset China brings to a team dynamic…