A conceptual framework for understanding HIV risk behavior in the context of supporting fertility goals among HIV-serodiscordant couples.

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Due to a long-term shortage of obstetricians, the Ministry of Health of Senegal and Dakar University Obstetric Department agreed in 1998 to train district teams consisting of an anaesthetist, general practitioner and surgical assistant in emergency obstetric surgery. An evaluation of the policy was carried out in thre...

journal_title：Reproductive health matters

authors： De Brouwere V,Dieng T,Diadhiou M,Witter S,Denerville E

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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：:'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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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