Insights and field perspectives on extreme heat and maternal health in Matam
- 7 days ago
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Yacine Diop, a Master's student at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, completed her internship this summer with the SPRINT-Sen project. In her latest post, she reflects on her experience in Matam, where she took part in training sessions on mental health for healthcare professionals and community health workers, and observed the community-based intervention on exclusive breastfeeding and mental health carried out across our four study sites: Gaol, Taïba, Ourossogui, and Soubalo.
She describes how extreme heat, which can reach 45°C, complicates exclusive breastfeeding and takes a toll on mothers' mental health, and how community health workers play a key role in translating scientific recommendations into practices adapted to local realities.
