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- Contextualising rights: the lived experience of sexual and reproductive health rights
- BioMed Central, 2012
- This volume (Volume 11 supplement 3) entitled 'Contextualisingrights: the lived experience of sexual and reproductive health rights'includes the following articles:...
- Lay beliefs of TB and TB/HIV co-infection in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a qualitative study
- M.K. Gebremariam;G.A. Bjune;J.C. Frich / BioMed Central, 2011
- Knowledge about lay perceptions of the relationship between tuberculosis (TB) and HIV is important for understanding patients’ health seeking behaviour and adherence to treatment. This study ...
- Utilisation of sexual health services by female sex workers in Nepal
- L. Ghimire;W.C.S. Smith;E.R.V. Teijlingen / BioMed Central, 2011
- Statistics indicate that more than half of the women with sexually transmitted infections in Nepal sought sexual health services. This study explores female sex workers (FSWs) use of sexual health ...
- Occupational cancer burden in developing countries and the problem of informal workers
- V.S. Santana;F.S.N. Ribeiro / BioMed Central, 2011
- The work environment could be of particular importance in developing countries where cancer mortality is growing. This article discusses the various aspects of occupational cancer in these countrie...
- Evaluation of a school-based HIV prevention intervention among Yemeni adolescents
- B. Al-Iryani;H. Basaleem;K. Al-Sakkaf / BioMed Central, 2011
- Yemeni youth are experiencing increased pre-marital sex, peer pressure to engage in risky behaviour, and changing lifestyle norms. This article describes an evaluation of a school-based peer educat...
- Factors associated with female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso and its policy implications
- B. Karmaker;N. Kandala;D. Chung / BioMed Central, 2011
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) is widely practiced in some parts of Africa, although it can cause immediate complications (pain, bleeding and infection) and delayed complications (sexual, obstetri...
- What factors are associated with recent intimate partner violence: findings from the WHO multi-country study on women’s health and domestic violence
- T. Abramsky;C.H. Watts;C. Garcia-Moreno / BioMed Central, 2011
- Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a global public health and human rights concern. This multi-country study is sought to identify factors that are consistently associated with abuse ...
- Resource flows and levels of spending for the response to HIV and AIDS in Belarus
- Kachan VI;Tkachova AI;Avila-Figueroa C / BioMed Central, 2011
- Whereas Belarus has a focused HIV epidemic concentrated among injecting drug users, female sex workers and men who have sex with men, this paper argues that, until 2008, Belarus had no way of evaluati...
- HIV prevalence among female sex workers, drug users and men who have sex with men in Brazil: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Monica Malta;Monica MF Magnanini;Maeve B Mello / BioMed Central, 2010
- This paper notes that whereas the Brazilian response towards the AIDS epidemic is well known, the absence of a systematic review of vulnerable populations ─ men who have sex with men (MSM), female ...
- Human resources for health and decentralization policy in the Brazilian health system
- Celia R. Pierantoni;Ana C.P. Garcia / BioMed Central, 2011
- The Brazilian health reform process, following the establishment of the Unified Health System (SUS), has had a strong emphasis on decentralisation, with a special focus on financing, management and in...
