**Match-fixing in cricket matches:** A Cricket World Cup 2014 match between India and Australia was filmed on a hidden camera showing that players of both sides were paying off umpires and match officials to ensure their own team won. **PDA face mask:** The safety seal and bite of a diaphragm is broken and the vagina is available for penetration. These devices, used in some cultures to avoid pregnancy, have been the cause of many deaths of women during childbirth.
SELF-HELP AND SUPPORT GROUP INFORMATION
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**Big Other:** They're both/and. A men's group, run by a psychiatrist, which aims to improve male mental health and wellbeing through social support and shared understanding. **CommON:** At every stage, life or health, what counts is your COMMON. Common work, common education, common parenting, common leisure, common friendships and romances. **The challenge:** the main thing you want to do with your life and commit to. For more information, go to www.everydayhealth.com/test/commons.
MATERNITY/BELLY SUPPORT
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**The Childbirth Experience Group** (formerly called the National Childbirth Trust and the Maternity Support Trust). This organisation promotes the positive experience of motherhood. Its website provides links to information on the experience of pregnancy and childbirth.
**www.ukcpn.org.uk** (UK's national charity for women affected by severe postnatal depression).
**** (The Maternity Support Trust). A free, confidential service providing information on postnatal depression for women who are experiencing it.
**** (Pregnant women's helpline, 08000 541 900, operates Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., free)
**** (Tina and Ell, for Mums, dads and partners affected by postnatal depression and anxiety, specialist maternity support line, with a helpline open Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.).
**www.thriveuk.org.uk** (Royal College of Midwives website, www.rcm.org.uk,
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