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Prevention of drug related HIV transmission Consultation, 28 - 31st January 2008, Goa, India

The first Asian consultation on the prevention of drug related transmission of HIV/AIDS will bring together Parliamentarians, Policy-Makers, INGOs, and Community Groups to develop a program of Action and to review policy and services for HIV positive people, Drug Users and communities in Asia.

http://www.responsebeyondborders.com/

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Promoting the female condom to refugees [pdf]

UNHCR and its partners have been providing male condoms since the late 1990s. However, uptake remains alarmingly low. The public health rationale for condom use in the refugee setting is compelling, as refugees are particularly vulnerable to HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This article discusses whether it would be more successful to promote the female condom, a female-initiated barrier method of contraception, in disease prevention? (Forced Migration, 2006)

http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/FMR25/FMR2539.pdf

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Public Choices, Private Decisions: Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals

Sexual and reproductive health is crucial for the achievement of the MDGs. Access to family planning services; safe motherhood; prevention efforts as well as treatment of sexual transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS; and the elimination of gender violence would improve the lives of the poor and spur economic and social development. (UN Millennium Project, May 2006)

http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/srh_main.htm

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PUSH Journal: Periodic Updates of Sexual and Reproductive Health Issues Around the World

This free, objective news service is the product of a partnership among the Communications Consortium Media Center (a nonprofit NGO based in Washington, DC) and UNFPA, the UN Population Fund. It provides users with free full-text news stories on sexual and reproductive health issues from more than 36,000 top news outlets around the world.

http://www.pushjournal.org/

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Reaching Men to Improve Reproductive Health for All: Implementation Guide

This guide captures the programmatic issues discussed at the Reaching Men to Improve Reproductive Health for All international conference held in Dulles, Virginia, September 15-18, 2003. It was designed as a tool to inform, facilitate and encourage providers, researchers, trainers, communicators, program managers, and donors on how to implement reproductive health programs that involve men while mainstreaming gender.

http://www.jhuccp.org/igwg/guide/index.html

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Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in the poorest communities

Despite a plethora of newly validated interventions, the millennium development goals to reduce maternal mortality by three quarters and child mortality by two thirds are unlikely to be achieved.1 One of the reasons for this is that current safer motherhood and newborn care programmes emphasise interventions that do not reach the poorest households. In this article the authors argue that community based interventions have been neglected and undervalued. Large scale community effectiveness trials are both necessary and feasible if we are to make further progress with reducing maternal and child mortality. (Anthony Costello, David Osrin, Dharma Manandhar, British Medical Journal, 13 November 2004)

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/329/7475/1166?ck=nck

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Reducing maternal mortality in the developing world: sector-wide approaches may be the key

BMJ 2001;322:917-920 ( 14 April ). Elizabeth Goodburn, reproductive health adviser a, Oona Campbell, head, maternal health programme b. a Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health, John Snow International (UK), London NW5 1TL, b Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1B 3DP. Summary points: Reducing maternal mortality in developing countries is an international priority; Preventing maternal deaths requires a functioning health system; Sector-wide approaches allow donors to support improvements in health systems; Sector-wide approaches offer the opportunity to make a sustainable impact on maternal mortality; Improvements in maternal health can be used to measure the performance of sector-wide approaches

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7291/917

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Repositioning Family Planning Advocacy Conferences: A "How To" Handbook

For the last four years, Advance Africa, under the support and guidance of USAID, worked to enhance decision-makers' appreciation of family planning in this capacity and reposition family planning in a new light. Advocacy conferences had a direct effect on country programs by convincing key stakeholders of the importance of family planning in meeting national development goals. Given the critical importance of these advocacy conferences for repositioning Family Planning, this document has been prepared by Advance Africa to share its experience on "how to" prepare, implement and follow up with these conferences. Advance Africa / USAID September 2005.

http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADE957.pdf

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Reproductive Health Gateway

Search through specifically selected websites for relevant and reliable information on reproductove health.

http://www.rhgateway.org/

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Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations: An Inter-Agency Field Manual

Information, education and communication (IEC) combines strategies, approaches and methods that enable individuals, families, groups, organisations and communities to play active roles in achieving, protecting and sustaining their own health.

http://www.unfpa.org/emergencies/manual/a1.htm#The

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Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consertium

The goal of the Reproductive Health Response in Conflict (RHRC) Consortium is to increase access to a range of quality, voluntary reproductive health (RH) services for refugees and displaced persons around the world. The RHRC Consortium is dedicated to the promotion of RH among all persons affected by armed conflict. The RHRC Consortium promotes sustained access to comprehensive, high quality RH programs in emergencies and advocates for policies that support RH of persons affected by armed conflict.

http://www.rhrc.org/

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Sakhi Saheli - promoting gender equity and empowering young women: a training manual [pdf]

Sakhi Saheli: Promoting Gender Equity and Empowering Young Women - a Training Manual has been developed by CORO for Literacy and Horizons/Population Council with support from Instituto Promundo. The Manual is an important resource for those who work with young females to prevent HIV infection and sexual and reproductive health problems (Population Council, 2008).

http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/India_SakhiSaheli_Eng.pdf

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Sexual behaviour in context: a global perspective'

Research aimed at investigating sexual behaviour and assessing interventions to improve sexual health has increased in recent decades. The resulting data, despite regional diff erences in quantity and quality, provide a historically unique opportunity to describe patterns of sexual behaviour and their implications for attempts to protect sexual health at the beginning of the 21st century. In this paper we present original analyses of sexual behaviour data from 59 countries for which they were available. The data show substantial diversity in sexual behaviour by region and sex. No universal trend towards earlier sexual intercourse has occurred, but the shift towards later marriage in most countries has led to an increase in premarital sex, the prevalence of which is generally higher in developed countries than in developing countries, and is higher in men than in women. Monogamy is the dominant pattern everywhere, but having had two or more sexual partners in the past year is more common in men than in women, and reported rates are higher in industrialised than in non-industrialised countries. Condom use has increased in prevalence almost everywhere, but rates remain low in many developing countries.(The Lancet, 2006)

http://www.fundersnet.org/resources/docs/Series2.pdf

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Sexual violence: weapon of war, impediment to peace

The January issue of Forced Migration Review explores the challenges and opportunities for combating sexual violence in conflict, post-conflict and development recovery contexts. (Forced Migration Review, January 2007)

http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/FMR27/full.pdf

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Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Unsafe Sexual Behaviors Among Young Women and Men in South Africa

By Kelly Hallman.Policy Research Division, Population Council. Working paper no. 190, 2004. Recent evidence suggests that the burden of new HIV infections in developing countries is concentrated among young people and females. Even with knowledge of how to protect oneself from infection, such information may not always be usable in daily situations of economic and social disadvantage that characterize the lives of many young people and women in poor countries. Using household survey data collected in 2001, this study investigates how relative socioeconomic status influences the sexual behaviors of young women and men aged 14-24 years in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa-an environment characterized by high HIV prevalence and high rates of poverty and inequality. Relative economic disadvantage is found to significantly increase the likelihood of a variety of unsafe sexual behaviors and experiences.

http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/wp/190.pdf

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State of the World's Children 2008

The State of the World's Children 2008 assesses the state of child survival and primary health care for mothers, newborns and children today. These issues serve as sensitive barometers of a country's development and wellbeing and as evidence of its priorities and values. Investing in the health of children and their mothers is a human rights imperative and one of the surest ways for a country to set its course towards a better future (UNICEF 2008).

http://www.unicef.org/sowc08/docs/sowc08.pdf

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State of the World's Mothers 2005

Across the globe, 58 million girls are not attending school. Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers 2005 examines the ways investing in girls' education can benefit present and future generations of children, and society as a whole. It points to effective, affordable programs and policies that are working, even in the world's poorest countries. Other highlights of the report include: Looking back 10 years at gains in girls' education in 71 developing countries (Girls' Education Progress Report), the report finds that countries have a mixed record when it comes to progress in girls' education. Looking 10 years forward (Forecasts for Children), the report identifies 11 developing countries that are "most likely to succeed" in improving children's quality of life in the next decade in three important areas of global development: achieving smaller, healthier families; educating all children; and reaching the Millennium Development Goal targets. The sixth annual Mothers' Index ranks the best and worst countries to be a mother, based on a review of 10 indicators of women's and children's well-being among 110 countries, including the United States.

http://www.savethechildren.org/mothers/report_2005/

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State of World Population 2005

UNFPA, 2005. This report explores the degree to which the global community has fulfilled pledges made to the world's most impoverished and marginalized peoples. It tracks progress, exposes shortfalls and examines the links between poverty, gender equality, human rights, reproductive health, conflict and violence against women and girls. It also examines the relationship between gender discrimination and the scourge of HIV/AIDS. It identifies the vulnerabilities and strengths of history's largest cohort of young people and highlights the critical role they play in development.

http://www.unfpa.org/swp/swpmain.htm

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Stop Sex Discrimination in Guatemalan Maquilas

U.S. and South Korean clothing manufacturers and food processing companies contract with maquilas in Guatemala that discriminate against women on the basis of their reproductive status. Press the government of South Korea to publicly denounce sex discrimination in maquilas owned and managed by South Koreans. Urge the U.S. Secretary of State to speak out about abuses against women by U.S. companies abroad. If you are a U.S. citizen, write your representative and senators in Congress.

http://hrw.org/campaigns/guatemala/

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Stop the Export of U.S.-Funded Abstinence-Only HIV/AIDS Programs

'Abstinence-only' programs teach that abstaining from sex until marriage is the only effective way to prevent contracting HIV through sex. They deny young people critical information about condoms and other safer sex strategies, and promote marriage as a safeguard against HIV infection. These programs do not work, they violate kids' right to complete information about HIV/AIDS and leave young people at risk of contracting HIV in marriage, particularly women and girls. But the U.S. government is exporting them all over the world as part of President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Support Ugandan AIDS activists by adding your name to a sign-on letter to their Ministry of Health. Write to President Bush and Ambassador Randall Tobias

http://hrw.org/campaigns/aids/2005/uganda/

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The Health, Nutrition & Population Millennium Development Goals Country Data Sheets

This World Bank webpage provides country data sheets for relating to the Health, Nutrition and Population Millennium Development Goals.

http://www1.worldbank.org/hnp/MDG/mdg_data.asp

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The Information and Knowledge for Optimal Health Project

The Information and Knowledge for Optimal Health Project (the INFO Project), based at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Communication Programs, receives support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The INFO Project expands on the work of its predecessor, the Population Information Program (PIP). The mission and activities of the INFO Project reflect a new way of understanding how knowledge and information can improve the quality of reproductive health programs, practice, and policies.

http://www.infoforhealth.org

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The Institute for International Health

The Institute for International Health conducts an international program of health research, development and training. The aim of this program is to facilitate the prevention of premature death, serious ill health and disability from common causes of non-communicable diseases and injury. The program is orientated towards: health issues of global significance, including those that affect people in lower income and newly industrialised countries the prevention and treatment of heart and vascular diseases, injury and trauma, and mental illness. The Institute is formally associated with the University of Sydney (Australia) and is a designated Research Department within the Faculty of Medicine.

http://www.iih.usyd.edu.au/

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The Issue: Female Genital Mutilation

This gives the background of female genital mutilation and the health effects this procedure can have on young girls and women (PBS).

http://www.pbs.org/speaktruthtopower/issue_female.html

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The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health

The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health is a new collaboration between the world's leading maternal, newborn and child health advocates. We're uniting developing and donor countries, UN agencies, professional associations, research institutions, foundations and NGOs to intensify and harmonize national, regional and global progress toward UN Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5.

http://www.pmnch.org/

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