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abstract：:Health sector reformers, particularly the economists among them, are prone to reject calls for more financial support for reproductive health as "special pleading" even when the argument is made that reproductive health is a basic human right. Reproductive health is not alone in this. Up to now, however, the idea that...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Merrick T

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unmet need for family planning in Uganda is among the world's highest. Injectable contraceptives, the most available method, were used by only 14.1% of married women in 2011. Recent data suggest that the main reason for unmet need is not lack of access, but fear of and unacceptability of side effects. In this qual...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Hyttel M,Rasanathan JJ,Tellier M,Taremwa W

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After almost 500 years of Spanish colonial rule, Canon law and laws of Spanish origin continue to dominate Philippine family, civil and penal law. Most if not all of these laws place serious limitations on the realisation of women's sexual and reproductive rights. Since 2002, the current president, Gloria Mocapagal Ar...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Ruiz Austria CS

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines different dimensions of sexual health as related to the measurement of sexual health indicators and the proposed changes in the International Classification of Diseases to address issues related to sexuality and sexual health with an aim of informing health policy-making and programming. The lack o...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Chou D,Cottler S,Khosla R,Reed GM,Say L

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the majority of births in Mexico are attended by skilled birth attendants, maternal mortality remains moderately high, raising questions about the quality of training and delivery care. We conducted an exhaustive review of the curricula of three representative schools for the education and clinical preparatio...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Cragin L,DeMaria LM,Campero L,Walker DM

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to describe the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy across 19 countries, and examine trends across age groups and UN regions. We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (20 surveys from 15 countries) and the International Violence Against Women...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Devries KM,Kishor S,Johnson H,Stöckl H,Bacchus LJ,Garcia-Moreno C,Watts C

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last days of 2011, President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff issued a provisional measure (or draft law) entitled "National Surveillance and Monitoring Registration System for the Prevention of Maternal Mortality" (MP 557), as part of a new maternal health programme. It was supposed to address the pressing issue of ma...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Diniz S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of wide availability of menstrual regulation services, women often resort to a variety of medicines for inducing abortion. The Bangladeshi Government is now supporting attempts to investigate the introduction of medical menstrual regulation in the public sector. This study examined the acceptability of medica...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Yasmin R,Rob U,Hena IA,Das TR,Ahmed FU

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On 25 July 2001 the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning organised a Tribunal on Abortion Rights in Warsaw, to publicize the negative consequences of the criminalization of abortion in Poland. A panel of Polish and foreign experts heard the testimonials of seven Polish women's experiences under the 1993 "An...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Girard F,Nowicka W

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unmet need for contraception represents a major failure in the provision of reproductive health services and reflects the extent of access to services for spacing and limiting births, which are also affected by personal, partner, community and health system factors. In the context of the Millennium Development Goals, ...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Bernstein S,Edouard L

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper explores sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) among young people, identifying intersecting factors that create inequities in access to services, health-seeking behaviour, and ultimately health outcomes. Based on qualitative interviews with young people in the Maldives, it demonstrates how these ...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Hameed S

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper summarises the findings of a study on second trimester abortion in England and Wales in 2005. Second trimester abortions constitute a relatively small proportion of the total number of legal abortions performed in these countries yet attract quite substantial public, and particularly media, attention. Discu...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Ingham R,Lee E,Clements SJ,Stone N

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug regimens and procedures now exist that will prevent parents from transmitting HIV to infants, and the ethical and legal obligation to promote and protect the reproductive rights of those living with HIV should form part of training for HIV/AIDS care and prevention. This paper reports a study that investigated iss...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Paiva V,Filipe EV,Santos N,Lima TN,Segurado A

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is well known that refugees engage in sex work as a form of livelihood, stigma and silence around this issue persist within humanitarian circles. As a result, these refugees' sexual and reproductive health and rights, and related vulnerabilities, remain overlooked. Their protection and health needs, which ...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Rosenberg JS,Bakomeza D

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:South Africa's first democratic government passed the Domestic Violence Act (DVA) into law in 1998 as part of local and international commitments to protecting the human rights of women. Although the Act was welcomed as groundbreaking legislation, delays in implementing it led to increasing frustration. This paper des...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Usdin S,Christofides N,Malepe L,Maker A

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Western countries have reported an increased risk of maternal mortality among African immigrants. This study aimed to identify cases of maternal mortality among immigrants from the Horn of Africa living in Sweden using snowball sampling, and verify whether they had been classified as maternal deaths in the Cause of De...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Elebro K,Rööst M,Moussa K,Johnsdotter S,Essén B

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even a few decades ago, it was considered normal and even desirable in Latin America for young women to become pregnant before they were 20--provided they were married; while young men were expected to become sexually active as soon as they entered adolescence, without much concern about potential risks or with whom t...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Muñoz M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Global Commission on HIV and the Law was established in 2010 to identify and analyse the complex framework of international, national, religious and customary law shaping national responses to HIV and the well-being of people living with HIV and key populations. Two years of deliberation, based on an exhaustive re...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： El Feki S,Avafia T,Fidalgo TM,Divan V,Chauvel C,Dhaliwal M,Cortez C

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High unmet need for limiting contraception persists in most states of India despite wide access to sterilisation. Qualitative evidence from a rural community in which child mortality is high and women's autonomy is low suggests that women may seek reversibility in a contraceptive even if they have finished childbearin...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Iyengar K,Iyengar SD

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Menopausal symptoms can be grim, and the desire to replace the hormonal "deficit" with exogenous hormones remains strong. Since the 1950s, hormone replacement therapy has been used increasingly, while evidence on the risks of unwanted side effects has accumulated. What have we learned over these decades? Firstly, curr...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Mcpherson K

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1978 the abortion law was liberalised in Norway. It permits abortion on request up to 12 weeks of pregnancy, and after that with the agreement of a medical commission, taking the woman's own views into consideration. In 2003, 96% of abortions took place before 12 weeks of pregnancy. There is considerable support am...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Løkeland M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the mid-point of the Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, we reviewed the situation in the UK in key areas. In recent years, greater attention has been paid to sexual health at a national policy level, including strategies on teenage pregnancy and sexual health, bu...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Davey C

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Irish Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act seeks to clarify the legal ground for abortion in cases of risk to life, and to create procedures to regulate women's access to services under it. This article explores the new law as the outcome of an international human rights litigation strategy premised on state du...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Erdman JN

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abortion has been available legally in Moldova since 1955, and since then the abortion rate has gradually declined. The quality of abortion care remains low, however, and there is a high level of maternal mortality related to unsafe abortion. The goals of the 2005-2015 National Reproductive Health Strategy are to redu...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Comendant R

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disability encompasses the limitations on an individual's basic physical activities, and the consequent social oppressions such individual faces in society. In this regard, the limitation on the use of some parts of the genitals in a patriarchal system is considered a form of disability. This paper describes the perce...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Owojuyigbe M,Bolorunduro ME,Busari D

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is about the economic consequences of the stigmatisation and illegality of abortion and its almost complete removal from public health services in Poland since the late 1980s. Once abortion left the public sphere, it entered the grey zone of private arrangements, in which a woman's private worries became so...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Chełstowska A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrated reproductive health services for people living with HIV must address their fertility intentions. For HIV-serodiscordant couples who want to conceive, attempted conception confers a substantial risk of HIV transmission to the uninfected partner. Behavioral and pharmacologic strategies may reduce HIV transmis...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Crankshaw TL,Matthews LT,Giddy J,Kaida A,Ware NC,Smit JA,Bangsberg DR

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:South Africa's cervical screening policy recommends three free Pap smears at ten-year intervals for all women over 30 years of age, aiming to achieve 70% coverage by 2010 by targeting the age group most at risk of developing pre-cancerous cervical lesions. Attaining wide coverage requires an adequate supply of motivat...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Kawonga M,Fonn S

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Nepal, the effects of the low social status of women and lack of access to health care and family planning have resulted in a maternal mortality ratio that is among the highest in South Asia. By the mid-1990s, the contribution of unsafe abortions to maternal deaths and morbidity was acknowledged by key individuals ...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Shakya G,Kishore S,Bird C,Barak J

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have seen a push to apply criminal law to HIV exposure and transmission, often driven by the wish to respond to concerns about the ongoing rapid spread of HIV in many countries. Particularly in Africa, some groups have begun to advocate for criminalization in response to the serious phenomenon of women be...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Jürgens R,Cohen J,Cameron E,Burris S,Clayton M,Elliott R,Pearshouse R,Gathumbi A,Cupido D

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00