Unsafe sexual behaviour among schoolgirls in Mozambique: a matter of gender and class.

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：:Although Chile is a traditionally conservative country, considerable legal advances in sexual and reproductive rights over the past decade have brought discourses on sexuality into mainstream political, social and media agendas. In light of these changes it is important to explore how adolescents conceptualize sexuali...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Macintyre AK,Montero Vega AR,Sagbakken M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Withdrawal is an ancient and prevalent form of male contraception which has largely been ignored by family planning programme managers all over the world. The objective of this study was to understand men's perspectives on withdrawal use, both users and non-users. In-depth interviews with 62 male factory workers in we...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Ortayli N,Bulut A,Ozugurlu M,Cokar M

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：:This paper discusses the type of work migrant women from the former Eastern European countries perform in nightclubs in Amman, Jordan. The fieldwork for this qualitative study was conducted in 2010 and is based on in-depth interviews with 13 women. The topic is approached from the perspective of describing women's cho...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Beňová L

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although unsafe abortion continues to be a leading cause of maternal mortality in many countries in Asia, the right to safe abortion remains highly stigmatized across the region. The Asia Safe Abortion Partnership, a regional network advocating for safe abortion, produced an animated short film entitled From Unwanted ...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Krishnan S,Dalvie S

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How rurality relates to women's abortion decision-making in the United States remains largely unexplored in existing literature. The present study relies on qualitative methods to analyze rural women's experiences related to pregnancy decision-making and pathways to abortion services in Central Appalachia. This analys...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： O'Donnell J,Goldberg A,Lieberman E,Betancourt T

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：:In 2011, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) issued two landmark decisions. In Alyne da Silva Pimentel v. Brazil, the first maternal death case decided by an international human rights body, it confirms that States have a human rights obligation to guarantee that all women, irrespe...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Kismödi E,de Mesquita JB,Ibañez XA,Khosla R,Sepúlveda L

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:A trained health service workforce is critical to ensuring good quality service delivery to people with HIV. There is only limited documented information on the challenges and constraints facing health care providers in meeting the sexual and reproductive health needs of HIV positive women and men. This paper reviews ...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Bharat S,Mahendra VS

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abortion was completely illegal in Portugal until 1984. Illegal abortion provision was a matter of silence until then and treated as a "black market" issue rather than as a health issue. The first attempts to change the abortion law began in 1982 after two trials and a national campaign for legal abortion and contrace...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Vilar D

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：: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：: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：:Turkey has maintained liberal contraception and abortion policies since the 1980s. In 2012, the government proposed to restrict abortion; a bill limiting abortion was later drafted but never passed into law. Since the proposed restriction, women have reported difficulty accessing abortion services across Turkey. We ai...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： MacFarlane KA,O'Neil ML,Tekdemir D,Çetin E,Bilgen B,Foster AM

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Violence against women is a social mechanism confirming women's subordination in many societies. Sexual violence and harassment have various negative psychological impacts on girls, including a persistent feeling of insecurity and loss of self-esteem. This article aims to contextualize a particular form of sexual hara...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Nahar P,van Reeuwijk M,Reis R

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Argentina has recognized women's right to not be subjected to obstetric violence, the violence exercised by health personnel on the body and reproductive processes of pregnant women, as expressed through dehumanizing treatment, medicalization abuse, and the conversion of natural processes of reproduction into patholog...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Vacaflor CH

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：: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：: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：:A rights-based approach in HIV service delivery for adults is increasingly taking root in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of greater availability of antiretroviral therapy. Yet there has been comparatively little progress in strengthening a rights-based approach to adolescent HIV services, which we learned during a ...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Mburu G,Hodgson I,Teltschik A,Ram M,Haamujompa C,Bajpai D,Mutali B

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Young Men's Project has been working with young men and young fathers as part of Great Yarmouth Primary Care Trust in the UK since June 2001. The Project works in schools and other educational environments to promote positive personal development, particularly around sex and relationships, and to increase accessib...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Osborn M

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:In April and May 2006, internal conflict in Timor-Leste led to the displacement of approximately 150,000 people, around 15% of the population. The violence was most intense in Dili, the capital, where many residents were displaced into camps in the city or to the districts. Research utilising in-depth qualitative inte...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Wayte K,Zwi AB,Belton S,Martins J,Martins N,Whelan A,Kelly PM

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women and girls are increasingly the direct and targeted victims of armed conflict and studies show that they are disproportionately and differentially affected. However, humanitarian laws, policies, and protocols have yet to be meaningfully interpreted and adapted to respond to their specific needs, including to sexu...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Radhakrishnan A,Sarver E,Shubin G

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unsafe abortion in Sudan results in significant morbidity and mortality. This study of treatment for complications of unsafe abortion in five hospitals in Khartoum, Sudan, included a review of hospital records and a survey of 726 patients seeking abortion-related care from 27 October 2007 to 31 January 2008, an interv...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Kinaro J,Ali TE,Schlangen R,Mack J

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:Unsafe abortion is responsible for at least 9% of all maternal deaths worldwide; however, in humanitarian emergencies where health systems are weak and reproductive health services are often unavailable or disrupted, this figure is higher. In Puntland, Somalia, Save the Children International (SCI) implemented postabo...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Chukwumalu K,Gallagher MC,Baunach S,Cannon A

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organizational changes, increased funding and the demands of HIV antiretroviral (ARV) treatment create particular challenges for governance in the health sector. We assess resource allocation, policy making and integration of the national responses to ARV provision and reproductive health in Burkina Faso, using nation...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Windisch R,de Savigny D,Onadja G,Somda A,Wyss K,Sié A,Kouyaté B

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00