Intimate partner violence during pregnancy: analysis of prevalence data from 19 countries.

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：:Population-Health-Environment (PHE) is an interdisciplinary model of programme design which recognises the complex interconnections between people, their health and their environment. PHE responds holistically to the challenges faced by ecosystems and the communities dependent on them, with thematically distinct but i...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Mohan V,Shellard T

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：: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：:Uganda is often cited as a role model in the fight against HIV/AIDS because of its success in reducing both prevalence and incidence of HIV infection since the late 1980s. Although an increase in sexual abstinence has been highlighted as a primary cause of the declines, large increases have also been recorded in monog...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Singh S,Darroch JE,Bankole A

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Although the female condom has been introduced into over 90 countries since 1997, it has only been accepted in sexual and reproductive health programmes as a mainstream method in a few. This paper describes introductory strategies developed by Ministries of Health and non-governmental organisations in Brazil, Ghana, Z...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： Warren M,Philpott A

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：:'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：: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：: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：: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

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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