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  Introducing client-centered reproductive health services in a Pakistani setting

  Studies in Family Planning, 2005

  Poor quality of existing public reproductive health services in Pakistan deters many women from using services and contributes to poor reproductive health outcomes. This paper reviews an intervention designed to improve the quality of services by training health care providers to help clients meet their needs and eliminate barriers to service access and use.
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  Family planning services quality as a determinant of use of IUD in Egypt

  Health-services-research, 2006

  This article from BMC Health Services Research examines the relationship between the quality of family planning services and the use of intrauterine devices (IUDs) in Egypt.
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  The link between quality of care and contraceptive use

  International Family Planning Perspectives, 2003

  This paper, published by International Family Planning Perspectives, examines the extent to which quality of family planning care influences women’s use of contraception in the Philippines. High-quality care is expected to help reduce rates of contraceptive discontinuation and unintended fertility.
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  High performing reproductive health care facilities in Kenya – why they exceed expectations

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  This USAID report summarises findings from a study to determine why certain reproductive healthcare facilities in low-resource settings in Kenya perform better than others. The study examined the characteristics, behaviours, and coping strategies of high-performing reproductive healthcare facilities.
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  Feminist Africa 6: subaltern sexualities

  Feminist Africa, 2006

  This issue of Feminist Africa examines the question of sexual rights in Africa. The journal contains a range of articles which challenge the heterosexist and homophobic views of political and church leaders who claim that lesbian, gay and other dissident sexual and gender identities are “unAfrican”.
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  Does a competitive voucher program for adolescents improve the quality of reproductive health care?: a simulated patient study in Nicaragua

  BMC Public Health, 2006

  This study, published in BMC Public Health, evaluates the impact and sustainability of a competitive voucher programme on the quality of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care for poor and underserved female adolescents. Vouchers were distributed to adolescents in disadvantaged areas that gave free-of-charge access to SRH care in four public, ten non-governmental and five private clinics.
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  Gender and equity in access to health care services in the Middle East and North Africa

  Population Reference Bureau, 2006

  This article, published by the Population Reference Bureau, investigates differences in access to health care services between men and women in the Middle East and North Africa. It suggests that significant inequalities in access to health care services and overall health status persist for the region’s women, especially in the area of reproductive health.
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  BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack: gender and sexuality

  BRIDGE, 2007

  Have development interventions promoted only negative messages in relation to sexuality, ignoring poor people's rights to pleasure, affirmation and joy through sex and sexuality?
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  Family Planning: the unfinished agenda

  The Lancet, 2006

  This article is the third in a series of papers on Sexual and Reproductive Health published by the Lancet. It discusses trends in family-planning promotion and explains why it should be reinstated as a priority in some of the poorest countries of the world.
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  Unsafe abortion: the preventable pandemic

  The Lancet, 2006

  This article is the fourth in a series of papers on Sexual and Reproductive Health published in the Lancet. It describes the scope of the problem of unsafe abortion and estimates the numbers of deaths and illnesses that result from it. The authors note that about 19–20 million unsafe abortions are performed every year, mainly in developing countries.

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