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Provision of reproductive health services in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons, issues, challenges and the overlooked rural majority
Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2000This paper by the Sustainable Development Department of the Food and Agricultural Organisation, explores the availability, accessibility and affordability of reproductive health services in sub-Saharan Africa. It reviews the current situation and proposes some solutions to respond to the unmet need for family planning.DocumentIntrauterine device toolkit: IUD toolkit
US Agency for International Development, 2007The IUD Toolkit is an online resource providing comprehensive and evidence-based information about intrauterine devices (IUDs) to help improve access to and quality of services.DocumentPolicy issues in planning and finance: creating conditions for greater private sector participation in family planning/reproductive health: benefits for contraceptive security
Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004This policy brief provides an overview of processes, strategies, and tools that developing countries can adopt to foster complementary public/private sector roles that enhance the private sector’s contribution to contraceptive security.DocumentSex and the rights of man
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006This paper explores the subject of sexual rights and the claims about such rights as they are made by and for men. It asks: what can men's interest be in the social and sexual revolution being proposed by advocates of sexual rights? The first answer to this question is to recognise that some men's sexual rights have long been violated.DocumentBRIDGE Bibliography 18: Women and girls living with HIV/AIDS: overview and annotated bibliography
BRIDGE, 2007HIV/AIDS is both driven by and entrenches gender inequality, leaving women more vulnerable than men to its impact. This report - consisting of an overview, annotated bibliography, and contacts section - considers the specific challenges faced by women and girls who are living with HIV and AIDS.DocumentEffects of the global fund on reproductive health in Ethiopia and Malawi: baseline findings
Partners for Health Reformplus, 2005This report by Partners for Health Reformplus, assesses the effects of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria (GF), and the activities it supports on reproductive health and family planning programmes in Ethiopia and Malawi.DocumentCairo after twelve years: successes, setbacks and challenges
The Lancet, 2006This Lancet paper describes the achievements, setbacks and challenges that have been faced since the UN International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo.DocumentStudy of the integration of family planning and VCT/PMTCT/ART programs in Uganda
Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda, 2005This paper examines the integration of family planning (FP) services with HIV and AIDS services (voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) and anti-retroviral therapy (ART)) in Uganda.DocumentKnowledge, perceived stigma, and care-seeking experiences for sexually transmitted infections: a qualitative study from the perspective of public clinic attendees in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
BMC Public Health, 2007This study examines factors that influence peoples sexually transmitted infection (STI) care-seeking decisions in Brazil, and the education and counselling which they receive during their clinic visit. The paper finds that: care-seeking delays are linked to information gaps regarding STI transmission, detection and treatment, and perceived STI-related and other social stigma.DocumentReproductive health supplies in Central and Eastern Europe
ASTRA - Central and Eastern European Womens Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, 2007This ASTRA network paper examines barriers to accessing reproductive health services and supplies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).Pages