Where are we now with hormone replacement therapy?

abstract：:This study seeks to examine the reasons why young women aged 14-20 in Maputo, Mozambique were engaging in risky sexual behaviour, and to ascertain whether the spread of HIV is due to socioeconomic factors and/or patriarchal beliefs and mores, or both. It is based on in-depth interviews and questionnaires among 182 gir...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Machel JZ

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viet Nam has high modern contraceptive prevalence (68%), with most services received through the public sector. As the country transitions to middle-income status, Viet Nam's donors have ceased donations of contraceptive supplies, causing a large projected shortfall in the family planning budget. In response, the Mini...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Drake JK,Thi Thanh LH,Suraratdecha C,Thi Thu HP,Vail JG

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:In support of maternal health, disease-specific and target-oriented global policy initiatives, such as in Millennium Development Goal 5, have led to a prioritisation of narrow indicators at the expense of more comprehensive approaches. In line with global policy, Nicaragua has made skilled attendants and institutional...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Kvernflaten B

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：: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：: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：:Understanding the flow of resources at the country level to reproductive health is essential for effective financing of this key component of health. This paper gives a comprehensive picture of the allocation of resources for reproductive health in Kenya and the challenges faced in the resource-tracking process. Data ...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Sidze EM,Pradhan J,Beekink E,Maina TM,Maina BW

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on a community-based study in 1999 of the beliefs and practices of people in Faranah District, Guinea regarding female genital excision (FGE). Semi-structured individual interviews and focus group discussions were carried out with women of reproductive age, older women, married men, community and re...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Keita D,Blankhart D

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：: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 Uganda, lack of resources and skilled staff to improve quality and delivery of maternity services, despite good policies and concerted efforts, have not yielded an increase in utilisation of these services by women or a reduction in the high ratio of maternal deaths. This paper reports a study conducted from Novemb...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Kyomuhendo GB

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Women's Right to Life and Health project aimed to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality in Bangladesh through provision of comprehensive emergency obstetric care (EmOC) in the country's district and sub-district hospitals. Human resources development was one of the project's major activities. This paper describe...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Islam MT,Haque YA,Waxman R,Bhuiyan AB

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The female condom has received surprisingly little serious attention since its introduction in 1984. Given the numbers of women with HIV globally, international support for women's reproductive and sexual health and rights and the empowerment of women, and, not least, due to the demand expressed by users, one would ha...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Peters A,Jansen W,van Driel F

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Structural and social inequalities, a harsh political economy and neglect on the part of the state have made married adolescent girls an extremely vulnerable group in the urban slum environment in Bangladesh. The importance placed on newly married girls' fertility results in high fertility rates and low rates of contr...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Rashid SF

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:This article offers some insights into the experiences of HIV positive women with the female condom, drawing on my own personal experience and responses of 18 members of the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS to an e-mail survey conducted in 2005. Major barriers reported to female condom use were co...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Welbourn A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex workers remain a vulnerable population at risk for HIV acquisition and transmission. Research suggests that interventions at the individual level, such as condom distribution, are less effective in preventing HIV among sex workers than structural changes such as allowing safer work settings and reducing the harass...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Forbes A

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM) in South Africa preceded the onset of the generalised HIV epidemic by several years, current policies and programmes focus on heterosexual transmission and mother-to-child transmission. We used an adaptation of the UNAIDS Country Harmonised Alignment Tool...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Rispel LC,Metcalf CA

更新日期：2009-05-01 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