Knowledge Centre : Health and Population : Reproductive and Sexual Health : Page 4
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- The Population Communication Services (PCS) project
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PCS provides technical assistance, training and financial support to agencies in more than 65 countries. Their technical foci includes support to People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs), destigmatization of HIV/AIDS, youth reproductive health, qualitative research and analysis, HIV/AIDS counseling, interpersonal communication and counseling (IPC/C), democracy & governance and IEC training. The Population Communication Services (PCS) project is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The Academy for Educational Development (AED), as a sub-contractorto the Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communication Programs (JHU/CCP), is responsible for: materials development, national level IEC strategy development, girls' education, youth initiatives, research and evaluation, maternal & child health, displaced populations and new technology.
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- The Taboo Topic of Female Genital Cutting: The search for alternative approaches
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Female Genital Cutting affects an estimated three million girls and women every year on the African continent alone. While this traditional practice is common in parts of Africa, Asia, and in some Arab countries as a passage to womanhood or as something to be endured in order to please a future husband, more and more voices are speaking up against FGC as a serious development, health, and human rights issue. The Development Gateway Foundation has launched a special collection on FGC, providing a package of useful resources to help disseminate information and create greater awareness about this phenomenon. It includes an exclusive interview with Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), coverage from the lens of Gender, Youth, HIV/AIDS, Population and Reproductive Health, and Culture, as well as Civil Society perspectives.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/highlights/default/showMore.do
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- The Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights
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The Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights is an autonomous network of groups and individuals in every continent who aim to achieve and support reproductive rights for women. Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights strives for women's right to self-determination in keeping with their freedom, dignity and personally held values. Transforming social, political and economic conditions are part of the reproductive rights agenda so that all women are able to fully enforce reproductive rights.
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- The World Health Report 2005
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WHO, April 2005. The World Health Report 2005 - Make Every Mother and Child Count, says that this year almost 11 million children under five years of age will die from causes that are largely preventable. Among them are 4 million babies who will not survive the first month of life. At the same time, more than half a million women will die in pregnancy, childbirth or soon after. The report says that reducing this toll in line with the Millennium Development Goals depends largely on every mother and every child having the right to access to health care from pregnancy through childbirth, the neonatal period and childhood.
http://www.who.int/whr/2005/en/index.html
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- Transforming health systems to improve the lives of women [PDF]
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Millennium Project Task Force. By Lynn P Freedman, Ronald J Waldman, Helen de Pinho, Meg E Wirth, A Mushtaque R Chowdhury, Allan Rosen.eld (2005). Ambitious quantitative goals for reducing mortality and increasing access to health interventions are nothing new to the areas of child, maternal, and reproductive health. They are the standard fare of global declarations and national 5-year plans. They come. They go. What makes the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) different?
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- Trust in Aunties: Testimony and Counselling Through Teenage Mothers
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This 36-page document shares the experience of the "Aunties Project" in Cameroon, an initiative to train teenage mothers through peer education. The project recruited and trained teenage mothers to give testimony on their own experiences and to give advice to other adolescents in their communities and schools to educate them about risky sexual behaviour. (Regina M. Goergen and Flavien Ndonko, April 2006)
http://www.evaplan.org/grafik/pdf/aunties.pdf
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- United Nations Consolidated Appeal for Southern Africa
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In July 2003, the United Nations (UN) in collaboration with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and key NGO partners launched a Regional Appeal for US$ 533 million for a multi-sectoral approach to address critical needs in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Appeal was launched to address the needs of 6.5 million people for whom the prospect of survival remained critical in the face of the combined effects of food insecurity, weakened capacity for governance and Human Immune-deficiency Virus / Acquired Immune-deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS).
http://www.un.org/depts/ocha/cap/southafricareg.html
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- United Nations Population Fund
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UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, helps developing countries find solutions to their population problems. UNFPA began operations in 1969. It is the largest international source of population assistance. About a quarter of all population assistance from donor nations to developing countries is channelled through UNFPA. The Fund has three main programme areas: Reproductive Health including Family Planning and Sexual Health, Population and Development Strategies and Advocacy.
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- Women Deliver: a Global Conference
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The "Women Deliver" Conference held 18-20 October 2007 in London brought together almost 2,000 participants from 109 countries to create the energy, the commitment, and the knowledge to fundamentally shift how women's health and women's contributions are viewed in the global agenda They were all gathered to address maternal mortality. This gathering included non-profit leaders in the health and development community as well as ministers of finance and planning, parliamentarians and staff of non-governmental organizations from 30 low-income countries. They pledged to make achievement of Millennium Development Goal #5 (improve maternal health) "a high priority on the national, regional and international health agenda.
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- Women's Leaders Welcome U.S. Decision To Rejoin Global Consensus for Women's Human Rights (PDF)
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Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), New York, March 4 - Leaders of prominent women's organizations today welcomed the U.S. decision to withdraw all its demands for controversial changes to a new United Nations declaration affirming women's human rights. They called for a new focus on advancing women's health, development and rights worldwide.
http://www.genderhealth.org/pubs/PR20050304.pdf
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- World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation
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Developing countries which invest in better education, healthcare, and job training for their record numbers of young people between the ages of 12 and 24 years of age, could produce surging economic growth and sharply reduced poverty. With 1.3 billion young people now living in the developing world-the largest-ever youth group in history-the report says there has never been a better time to invest in youth because they are healthier and better educated than previous generations, and they will join the workforce with fewer dependents because of changing demographics. (World Bank, 16 September 2006)
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- World Health Assembly 2006: Resolution on the Draft Global Strategy on the Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections
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This document makes recommendations to member states and to the Director-General on including prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections as an integral part of HIV prevention, and of sexual and reproductive health programmes and of efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA59/A59_R19-en.pdf
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- World Health Organisation (WHO) Reproductive Health Programme
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HRP is the main instrument within the United Nations system for research in human reproduction, HRP brings together health care providers, policy-makers, scientists, clinicians and consumer and community representatives to identify and address pritorities for research aimed at improving sexual and reproductive health
http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/
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