Sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United Kingdom at ICPD+10.

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：: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：: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

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：: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：: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：:'Microbicide' is the name for a number of new products currently under research which could become a new class of barrier method for use in the vagina and rectum for protection against HIV, prevention and/or treatment of other sexually transmitted diseases and/or act as a contraceptive. This is a summary report of thi...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Berer M

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outdated second trimester abortion methods are still being used in some countries, and very few studies have compared them to currently recommended methods. To this end, we studied the efficacy and safety of vaginal misoprostol used alone for abortions in 189 women at 13-20 weeks gestation, in 2004-2006. We also retro...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Boza AV,de León RG,Castillo LS,Mariño DR,Mitchell EM

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:In Argentina adolescent pregnancy is still regarded as a public health problem or a "social epidemic". However, it is necessary to ask from which perspective and for whom it is a problem, and what type of problem. This article presents the findings of a large quantitative and qualitative study conducted in five Northe...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Gogna M,Binstock G,Fernández S,Ibarlucía I,Zamberlin N

更新日期：2008-05-01 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

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：: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：: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：:Since 1995, sector-wide approaches (SWAps) to health development have significantly influenced health aid to developing countries. SWAps offer guidelines for new partnerships with international donors led by government, new relationships between donors and shared financing, development and implementation of agreed pac...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Hill PS

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：:In 1997, the Supreme Court of India recognised sexual harassment in the workplace as a violation of human rights. However, little is known about the extent or persistence of sexual harassment. To obtain an understanding of women's experiences of sexual harassment in the health sector, an exploratory study was undertak...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Chaudhuri P

更新日期：2007-11-01 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