Everything is ready for the first version of the Vibra Mujer Fair, an event whose purpose is to promote and support the endeavors of 50 Valle del Cauca women.
This event will be held at La Estación shopping center, to bet on the business development of women.
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“For women entrepreneurs, it is very important to have this type of spaces for commercial participation because it allows them to make their ventures visible,” says Beatriz Avendaño, director of Expomujeres Colombia.
The academic agenda will begin this Friday at 2 pm with the conference ‘History of life – History of women’, by Yaneth Mosquera (Cafam Woman).
Business fair will be for three days at La Estación shopping center.
Later Paola Carvajal will be there to deal with the topic ‘Activate and awaken your inner magic’. Finally, a ‘Manual for difficult times’ will be presented by Carolina Campo.
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This Saturday the agenda will begin at 10 am with the conversation ‘Woman, Being and Living’ (Casa Matria). Then, Elsy Rodríguez will talk about ‘Assertive communication as a life tool’.
The closing will be with ‘Tools to grow sales’. This event has the support of the Secretariat of Economic Development of Cali.
This initiative is led by the shopping center with the support of entities such as the Secretariat of Economic Development of Cali, Comfenalco, Comfandi, Emcali and Kkahuate cocktails.
Years of academic training, the time it takes to find a moderately stable job and difficult access to housing are some of the factors that cause motherhood to be postponed, putting female fertility at risk.
In many cases, circumstances don’t allow you to consider having a baby until your thirties, but then getting pregnant can be more difficult.
The age of the woman is decisive to be able to have children because, From the age of 30, fertility begins to decline.
This decrease is pronounced from the age of 35 and very high from the age of 38, according to data from the Spanish Fertility Society.
However, age is not the only factor to take into account, as lifestyle can also influence the chances of achieving a pregnancy.
In this sense, a review of studies published in the journal “Current Opinion in Obstetrics & Gynecology” concludes that, in addition to age, obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, alcohol, tobacco and other compounds have a negative effect on fertility and They can prolong the time needed to get pregnant.
Healthy nutrition
Thus, ProCare Healtha laboratory specializing in women’s health, offers some advice to take into account when considering a pregnancy after the age of 30.
The first is to have a healthy diet. In this way, The Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (SEEN) indicates that women with obesity have a lower probability of becoming pregnant both spontaneously and after undergoing assisted reproductive techniques.
Thus, it is calculated that the probability of pregnancy in women with severe obesity is reduced by half compared to women with normal weight.
“It is estimated that for each point of increase in the body mass index (BMI), the probability of spontaneous pregnancy is reduced by 10%. In addition, it is estimated that, after assisted reproduction techniques, for each point increase in BMI, live births decrease by 9% “,
points out Dr. Ana de Hollanda, coordinator of the Obesity group of the SEEN.
The specialist explains that obesity alters ovulation because excess body fat causes alterations in the hormones that regulate ovulation.
Also, that excess fat negatively affects the quality of the eggs and their ability to be fertilized.
smoking
Another recommended measure for women who want to be mothers is avoid tobaccoas this habit is also associated with lower fertility rates.
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) stresses that chemicals in cigarette smoke (such as nicotine, cyanide, and carbon monoxide) speed up egg loss.
Keep in mind that a woman’s egg reserve decreases with age and does not regenerate.
This implies that women smokers reach menopause between 1 and 4 years earlier than non-smokers.
Similarly, this entity emphasizes that women smokers do not conceive as efficiently as non-smokers.
In fact, infertility rates in both men and women who smoke are about twice those of non-smokers.
Also, the risk of fertility problems increases with the number of cigarettes smoked per day.
For his part, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) stresses the importance of stopping substance use before trying to get pregnant.
This entity reminds that tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, illegal drugs and some medications can cause serious problems such as birth defects in the baby, low birth weight, premature birth or even the birth of a stillborn baby.
Physical exercise
From Procare Health they recommend women who want to get pregnant to do physical exercise.
“The regular practice of physical exercise has numerous benefits for the well-being of the organism. Physical activity contributes to weight control, which is favorable to prevent obesity and the problems that this entails for the ovulatory capacity»
indicate the specialists of this laboratory.
Also, ACOG experts recommend getting 150 minutes of moderate physical activity a week, along with muscle-strengthening exercises, at least 2 days a week.
“You can divide the recommended number of minutes into several training sessions throughout the week, for example, in sessions of 30 minutes spread over 5 days a week. Establish the routine that best suits you»
recommend.
the most fertile days
Finally, when you want to be a mother, it is advisable to check which are the most fertile days.
“When looking for a pregnancy, it is essential to know the woman’s ovulation calendar to know which is the most fertile period and thus optimize relationships”
point out from Procare Health.
A woman has a certain number of immature eggs stored in her ovaries.
Throughout her life, some of these eggs will mature.
When an egg is fully mature, it is released from the ovary. This is known as ovulation.
Image of an embryonic development. Photo courtesy of the Marqués Institute.
From the ovary, the egg travels down the fallopian tubes to the uterus. If during this journey it is fertilized by a sperm, a pregnancy begins, which will stay inside the uterus.
But if this does not happen, it will be expelled along with the endometrium, which is the tissue that lines the inner wall of the uterus, during menstruation.
In an average menstrual cycle of 28 days, ovulation occurs about 14 days before the start of the next menstruation.
If you want to conceive, the optimal time to have intercourse is the day of ovulation and the five days prior to it.
Since sperm can live inside the female reproductive tract for up to five days, the chances of getting pregnant are higher if there are live sperm in the fallopian tubes during ovulation.
According to data from the Spanish Fertility Society, 85% of couples achieve a pregnancy after a year of searching and a third of those pregnancies happen within the first three months.
However, if after trying for a year, pregnancy does not occur, it is advisable to consult a doctor.
Female genital mutilation is a practice that endangers the future and lives of millions of girls and women every year. The education, awareness and training of health professionals can help to eradicate this violent and dangerous practice
44 million of the mutilations have been practiced on girls under the age of 14 / Courtesy of World Vision
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is one of the most aggressive and dangerous practices practiced, especially in African and Asian countries.
It is estimated that every year three million girls are mutilated and that in the world more than 200 million women and girls have been subjected to this type of violence.
For this reason, every February 6, the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation, we fight against this cultural practice that endangers the lives of millions of women and girls.
In Ethiopia, 74% have experienced some form of mutilation. In Kenya, despite being an illegal practice since 2011, it is still practiced in 21% (between 15 and 49 years old) and 11% (between 11 and 15 years old).
NGOs Help in Action Y Doctors of the World They combat FGM by offering education and training health professionals in the face of this practice, expanding their efforts on the International Day.
Photo courtesy of the NGO Ayuda en Acción.
Listen, understand and accompany
In this task, health professionals play an important role of prevention, listening and respect.
From Doctors of the World They work to give a cultural and emotional perspective to community mediators, thus generating spaces of trust within the community itself and advancing in the approach to health with cultural sensitivity.
In this way they ensure an attitude in which those who have suffered FGM are not judged or because you think this practice is beneficial for your daughter.
This non-governmental organization demands that the training of health professionals to deal with mutilation be increased and ensured, thus giving an approach close to the culture and reality of women survivors of this procedure.
“It is so important to have the tools for intervention such as training in cultural competence so that health professionals can address Female Genital Mutilation with families from countries at risk”
said Idoia Ugarte, political reference of the State Group of Female Genital Mutilation of Doctors of the World.
Doctors of the World is committed to the improving care for women survivors expanding comprehensive assistance.
Its objective is to include in the health system from psychological support to therapy for the sexual dysfunctions it causes or genital reconstruction.
Education as a key to change
The closure of schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic made the organization’s work difficult Help in Action that uses education as the best instrument to end female genital mutilation.
To avoid setbacks and advance awareness, the NGO focuses its work on promote access to education for minors. they do building schools and training teachers as a key to raising awareness on gender issues.
«The school environment is the most conducive to promoting listening and dialogue on sexual and reproductive rights. Also on the mechanism for the prevention of all types of violence, including mutilation and premature exhaustion»
says Marga Sanmartín, regional manager of Ayuda en Acción in East Africa and a specialist in sexual and reproductive health.
In addition, the NGO has created gender and anti-ablation clubs with which to make communities aware of this practice.
‘Zero mutilation’ and more future
Access to education gives women and girls the opportunity to have a better future.
“I joined the anti-ablation club in 1st grade and finished university hoping to get a job. But I have come even further. The training has allowed me to create my own basketry business with which I have managed to employ up to 15 people in my community»
Mercy account.
Although many countries are making great efforts to eradicate mutilation and denounce its practice, it still persists in many places.
If the rate of progress does not advance, thousands of girls will suffer from FGM with the risk that this entails for their future and their lives.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Honduras on Thursday to attend the inauguration of Xiomara Castro as the Central American nation’s first female president.
Harris attendance at the historic event underscores her role in leading President Joe Biden’s efforts to curb the migration of hundreds of thousands of people from Honduras and neighboring El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico into the United States each year, many of them traveling on foot over thousands of kilometers. Harris has been specifically tasked with addressing the root causes of the mass migration, including poverty and crime.
Biden pledged to adopt a more humane stance on migration than that of his predecessor, Donald Trump, who expelled migrants back to their home countries and separated children from their families.
Also attending Castro’s swearing-in will be Vice President William Lai of Taiwan. Castro has talked of switching Honduras’s diplomatic relations from Taiwan to China, which claims the self-ruled as part of its territory and has pushed to isolate Taipei from the international community.
Castro campaigned on a platform of ending the corruption that had clouded the 12-year rule of the right-wing National Party, which took power after her husband, Manuel Zelaya, was overthrown by the military. But her tenure has already gotten off to a rocky start after a breakaway faction of her Liberty and Refoundation Party, or Libre, elected lawmaker Jorge Calix to be their congressional leader last weekend.
The move went against an agreement Castro reached with the Partido Salvador de Honduras party, a key part of her political alliance that helped her win last November’s election, to choose PSH lawmaker Luis Redondo as congressional leader.
Some information for this report came from The Associated Press and Reuters.
