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    Sexual and reproductive health services and HIV testing: perspectives and experiences of women and men living with HIV and AIDS

    2007
    All over the world HIV has been stigmatised, making it difficult for people living with HIV to access testing, treatment, care and counseling or even to act on a diagnosis or get advice and treatment, for fear of being judged. Prejudice in society has also often been reflected and reproduced by health care providers.
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    Unequal, unfair, ineffective and inefficient. Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it.

    Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network, 2007
    Gender differentials in health related risks and outcomes are partly determined by biological sex differences. Yet they are also the result of how societies socialise women and men into gender roles. For example, in many societies, practices around sexuality sometimes include ritual (and painful) 'deflowering' of brides and sanctioned marital rape.
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    Breaking the Silence: the Global Gag Rule's Impact on Unsafe Abortion

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2003
    To what extent is the Bush Administration's gag rule contributing to the global crisis of unsafe abortion? The global gag rule (also known as the Mexico City Policy) is an executive order, issued by President Bush in 2001, which restricts foreign Non Government Organisations (NGOs) who receive USAID family planning assistance from using their own, non-U.S.
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    Advocating for Abortion Access: Eleven Country Studies

    Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2001
    What factors influence a country's legal position on abortion? This publication is
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    Increasing Access to Reproductive Health Services through Social Business. The Role of Marie Stopes South Africa in Delivering Termination of Pregnancy Services

    2002
    In 1996 legislation was passed in South Africa that derestricted access to termination of pregnancy (TOP) services, creating huge demand which the public sector was unable to meet. This paper examines the effectiveness of Marie Stopes South Africa's (MSSA) provision of TOP services in order to assess the contribution the not-for-profit social business made in this context.
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    Safe Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems

    2003
    What actions should health professionals and others both inside and outside of government take to ensure the provision of safe, good-quality abortion services as allowed by law?
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    To Stop Violence Against Women Respect for Women's Human Rights is Essential

    Amnesty International, 2007
    Violence against women and girls is a global pandemic, which often manifests itself as sexual violence in one form or another. This collection of stories, testimonies and recollections of girls and women - from Mexico, Colombia, China and Sudan - shows how women's freedoms are dependent on their sexual and reproductive rights, particularly those to safe and legal abortion.
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    Compendium of Indicators for Evaluating Reproductive Health Programs Volume 1

    MEASURE Evaluation, 2002
    This tool for post-abortion care (PAC) indicators forms part of a larger compendium designed for reproductive health programmes. It provides a comprehensive listing of the most widely used indicators, in order to encourage programme evaluation and improve the quality of work in developing countries.
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    Unsafe Abortion: The Preventable Pandemic

    World Health Organization, 2006
    To what extent is unsafe abortion a global problem? What is the incidence and impact in different regions, and what have recent trends meant for access to safe and legal abortion services? What is clear, is that health statistics often underreport the incidence of these procedures.
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    Why Yes to Therapeutic Abortion?

    BRIDGE, 2007
    On 26 October 2006, the National Assembly in Nicaragua approved the criminalisation of therapeutic abortion, i.e. the termination of pregnancy before foetal viability in order to preserve maternal health. As a direct result of this, maternal mortality rates increased dramatically.

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