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Thursday, June 7, 2018
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Council Discusses 
Game Day Condos

Councilmembers 
review zoning laws

By SAYALI AMIN

Daily Staff Reporter

On Monday June 4, Ann Arbor 
City Council convened to discuss 
a variety of issues, including the 
Unified Development Code as well 
as implications of zoning laws on the 
proposed construction of new game-
day condos.
The revision of the UDC was 
first brought up by a group of 
residents during the public hearing. 
Wendy Carman, a member of the 
Environmental Commission, said 
she was in support of a consolidated 
ordinance and has reviewed parts of 
the new working draft.
“The 
draft 
went 
almost 
completely unnoticed by the public,” 
Carman said. “I began with the 
Wetland Ordinance and I found 
one glaring mistake — a missing 
sentence requiring a permit to drain 
a wetland.”
Carman said the mistake was later 
corrected, but explained that there 

was no process in place to catch these 
errors. It took Carman four months 
to review a small portion of the more 
than 200-page document.
Councilmember 
Zachary 
Ackerman, D-Ward 3, suggested 
postponing discussion to the second 
council meeting in June, while 
Councilmember Jack Eaton, D-Ward 
4, said it should be postponed to the 
second meeting in July.
“We really need to have a chart,” 
Eaton said. “When you do complex 
legislation like this and you move all 
the parts around you should have 
a cross-reference chart of it, where 
it used to be and where it ended up. 
This is what we should be doing, 
instead we issued a report that was 
275 pages long and 656 footnotes, 
pointing things that had been done to 
the previous code.”
Ackerman 
said 
any 
desired 
changes to the zoning laws should 
be carried out through the UDC and 
should not be tabled for months. 
Ultimately, City Council voted to 
move the decision to July 16.

Partnerships focus 
on women’s health in 
Sub-Saharan Africa

By ALICE TRACEY

Summer Daily News Editor

A University of Michigan-led 
study published May 1 in the 
American College of Surgeons 
Bulletin reported partnerships 
between 
the 
Obstetrics 
and 
Gynecology departments of high-
income 
academic 
institutions 
and corresponding departments 
of 
sub-Saharan 
African 
institutions have the potential 
to 
greatly 
improve 
maternal 
and neonatal medical care. The 
study referenced several U-M 
collaborations that enrich ob-gyn 
training 
and 
improve 
access 
to women’s health care in sub-
Saharan nations.
According 
to 
Timothy 
R.B. 
Johnson, 
ob-gyn 
chair 
at 
Michigan 
Medicine, 
the 
University has a long history 
of academic partnerships with 
medical institutions in other 
countries, 
especially 
Ghana. 
Johnson 
founded 
an 
ob-gyn 
clinic in Ghana in 1989 during an 
epidemic of maternal morbidity, 
starting a partnership that has 
helped expand access to women’s 
health care. The University now 
participates in other initiatives 
with the mission of improving 

international ob-gyn training. The 
1000+ OBGYNS project, founded 
in 2014, is working to educate 
new doctors about maternal and 
newborn health in sub-Saharan 
Africa. Also founded in 2014, 
the 
Center 
for 
International 
Reproductive Health Training 
works with 10 institutions in 
Ethiopia and one in Rwanda to 
improve reproductive health care 
education. In the future, it aims to 
extend its work to Southeast Asia.
The 
University’s 
efforts 
in Ghana and Ethiopia have 
expanded to other medical fields, 
such as emergency medicine, but 
women’s health remains a central 
focus. Johnson said Sub-Saharan 
African countries suffer from high 
rates of maternal deaths. In a joint 
email interview, CIHRT Program 
Director Lia Gebremedhin and 
CIRHT Managing Director Janet 
Hall 
added 
underprivileged 
women in these areas also lack 
safe 
abortion 
methods 
and 
contraceptives.
“Women and girls in developing 
countries 
disproportionately 
suffer from maternal morbidity 
and mortality due to unsafe 
abortion,” Gebremedhin and Hall 
wrote. “In addition, they lack 
adequate access to comprehensive 
family 
planning 
services 
to 
prevent unwanted pregnancies.”

U-M Helps Train 
OB-GYNs Abroad

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