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    Abortion and Young People

    International Programme on Sexuality of Rutgers Nisso Groep, 2007
    What is abortion? What are the types of induced abortion and how is it done? What are the risks involved? Are other young people also trying to have an abortion? These are some of the questions addressed in this practical and accessible brochure which seeks to provide correct information to young people, without fear or guilt, and to dispel the myths that exist around abortion.
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    BRIDGE Report 38: Challenges to women's reproductive health: maternal mortality

    BRIDGE, 1996
    Why, despite continual technological and medical advance, do one out of every fifty women in developing countries still die in pregnancy and childbirth' This paper explains how socio-economic, cultural and political factors make women vulnerable to maternal death. It also explores their capacity to access maternal health services and gender biases within these services.
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    Access to safe abortion: an essential strategy for achieving the Millennium Development Goals to improve maternal health, promote gender equality and reduce poverty

    Millennium Project, 2007
    International leaders should support reforms of national laws on abortion in line with the commitments made at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, and with the fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce maternal mortality (the World Health Organization estimates that 13 percent of all maternal deaths globally are caused by unsafe abortion).
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    Unsafe Abortion

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    What is the cost of unsafe abortion-related ill-health and death? This was the subject of a meeting held at the Institute of Development Studies (UK) in April 2007. The meeting reviewed recent work estimating the cost of unsafe abortion. Participants also discussed the economic costs to health systems, individuals and households, and the links between unsafe abortion and poverty.
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    Failure to Deliver: Violations of Women's Human Rights in Kenyan Health Facilities

    Federation of Women Lawyers - Kenya, 2007
    The Kenyan government has taken many positive steps to advance women's reproductive health and rights.
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    New insights on preventing child marriage: a global analysis of factors and programs

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007
    One in every seven girls in developing countries marries before the age of 15 and nearly half are expected to marry by their 20th birthday, according to this report.
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    GenderStats on Myanmar

    World Bank, 2004
    Myanmar has a population of over 50,000, of which over 50.3 percent are women. Life expectancy is 64 years of age for women compared to 58 for men. Yet only 86.4 percent of women are literate compared to 93.9 percent of men. These are some of the statistics available from GenderStats, an electronic database of gender statistics hosted by the World Bank.
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    Picture Theatre ?Twin Angels?

    Japanese Organisation for International Cooperation in Family Planning, 2006
    Based on real events observed in rural Myanmar, the picture theatre "Twin Angels" is produced for advocacy and Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) and addresses issues around safe adolescent motherhood. The story evolves around twin sisters, NiNi and YiYi, who face different fates because of the different health care and support they receive during their pregnancies.
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    A Framework to Identify Gender Indicators for Reproductive Health and Nutrition Programming

    Population Resource Bureau, 2002
    This paper introduces a framework which uses a three-step process to incorporate gender into population, health and nutrition (PHN) programming:? Identify the gender-related obstacles to, and opportunities for, achieving a particular objective - such as reducing unintended pregnancy - in a particular setting;
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    Critical Areas, Issues and Topics in Sexual and Reproductive Health Indicator Development: An Annotated Bibliography

    Ford Foundation, 2002
    Although numerous indicators have been developed for measuring sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programme performance, there has been no international consensus regarding the most relevant indicators.

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