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  Black box of social capital: gender and Indonesian urban-rural networks

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is social capital analysis gender blind? It may be a popular method for understanding how individuals can improve or maintain their positions in society, but has it ignored gendered intrahousehold issues of power and hierarchy? Do we need to focus on social capital’s downside – the ‘costs’ of the processes through which it is generated?
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  Underweight and stunting: wake-up call for nutritionists in South Asia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Moderate malnutrition is highly prevalent in South Asia – 53 per cent of children under five years old in India were underweight in 1993. Why have decades of child nutrition programmes failed to reduce malnutrition? What are the links between the status of women, access to healthcare and child growth?
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  Does war reinforce a dominant notion of masculinity?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What are the links between war and ideas of masculinity? Do the way men think about their gender offer incentives to armed forces to use violence? How are non-combatant males caught up in violence? What role does the state play in the promotion or collapse of alternative masculinities?
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  Reproductive health awareness: a wellness, self-care approach

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  This resource manual is designed for training providers to develop reproductive health classes and training programmes. The ultimate goals of such training programmes are to increase knowledge, foster supportive attitudes, and develop skills that are important for good reproductive health for people of all ages.
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  Moving from research to program: the Egyptian Postabortion Care Initiative

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2003

  The paper describes assesses a project that sought to improve the standard of care for women with abortion complications in Egypt, from pilot program to work with the Ministry of Health and Population.Successes and failures:the initiative used a highly flexible, innovative management style that was consistent with contemporary theories of how to diffuse innovation and scale up pilot act
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  Programming for male involvement in reproductive health: report of the meeting of WHO Regional Advisers in Reproductive Health WHO/PAHO, Washington DC, USA 5-7 September 2001

  Reproductive Health and Research, 2002

  The specific objective of the meeting reported on in this paper, was to review and recommend strategies for the involvement of men in programmes aimed at improving reproductive health.The meeting outlined a framework for programme managers, suggesting strategies for increasing male responsibilities in reproductive health.
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  Genetic endowments, parental and child health in rural Ethiopia

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2003

  This paper examines the determinants of child health in rural Ethiopia for the period 1994-97 using height-for-age z-scores as measures of long-term health.The panel nature of the data helps to control for community, household and individual level heterogeneity. Unlike most previous studies, the influence of parental health on children is examined.
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  Male circumcision for prevention of heterosexual acquisition of HIV in men: a Cochrane review

  Medical Research Council, South Africa, 2003

  The aim of this paper is to assess the evidence of an interventional effect of male circumcision for preventing acquisition of HIV-1 and HIV-2 by men through heterosexual intercourse.
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  Guy to Guy Project: engaging young men in violence prevention and in sexual and reproductive health

  Promundo, 2001

  This case study presents the Institutes’ experience in engaging young men as ‘change agents’ in gender-based violence prevention and the promotion of sexual and reproductive health.
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  Reproductive morbidity: a neglected issue? Report of a clinic-based study in Far-Western Nepal

  African Networks for Health Research and Development, 2002

  This paper describes the results of a study of reproductive morbidity in Nepal. The study obtained information and proxy indicators on the prevalence of reproductive morbidity of women in Doti and Achham districts.Findings include:general health status of women: is strongly influenced by socio-cultural habits.

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