 Asian Women Parliamentarians Examine their Commitment to Gender Equality
May 05, 2010 Asian Women Parliamentarians Examine their Commitment to Gender Equality AFPPD Press Release
20 November 2009
More than 75 women parliamentarians and ministers assembled at the Malaysian Parliament to examine their own actions to promote gender equality and address issues affecting women's health and rights, including reproductive and sexual health, family planning, and gender-based violence. They gathered on the occasion of the 7th Asia-Pacific Women Parliamentarians' and Ministers' Conference from 14-15 November. Hosted by the Parliament of Malaysia, the conference was organized by the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) in cooperation with UNFPA and AFPPD-Malaysia and with support from the Government of Japan.
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Reducing unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion through contraceptive use
May 05, 2010 Reducing unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion through contraceptive use
Unmet need for family planning, unintended pregnancy, and unsafely performed abortion are linked. Unintended pregnancy is the primary factor in the nearly 40 million abortions that occur each year globally, nearly half of which are performed in an unsafe or unhygienic way. With 97 percent of unsafely performed abortions and 99 percent of maternal deaths occurring in less developed countries, improving knowledge of and access to contraception is essential to prevent the unintended pregnancies that lead women to risk an unsafely performed abortion. This article was written by Eric Zuehlke, an editor at PRB.
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Family Planning: A global handbook for providers
May 05, 2010 Family Planning: A global handbook for providers
This handbook provides evidence-based guidance developed through worldwide collaboration. It offers clinic-based health care professionals in developing countries the latest guidance on providing with the full range of contraceptive methods. This book serves as a quick-reference resource for all levels of health care workers. Published by World Health Organization, USAID and Johns Hopkins University.
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Essential Medicines List for Reproductive Health
May 05, 2010 Essential Medicines List for Reproductive Health
This guidebook, produced by WHO provides the list of essential reproductive health supplies and outlines the steps necessary for including reproductive health medicines on country-level lists of essential medicines. Download the guidebook from this link on the UNFPA website.
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Reproductive health Supplies Sexual and reproductive health
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Hewlett: Population Dynamics and Economic Development
May 05, 2010 Hewlett: Population Dynamics and Economic Development
The relationship between reproductive health and economic growth has long been of interest to academics as well as policy-makers. However, the empirical relationship between these variables has been difficult to establish. The paper summarizes the key achievements of a comprehensive research exercise to look at population dynamics and economic development. The paper also highlights new issues as well as unanswered questions. Download the paper, produced by the Center for Global Development and Population Reference Bureau, from the Hewlett Foundation website.
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Woodrow Wilson Center Roundtable: Future Family Planning Strategies
May 05, 2010 Woodrow Wilson Center Roundtable: Future Family Planning Strategies
Recent developments, including US President Obama's decision to restore funding to UNFPA and the heightened focus on the drivers of global climate change, have brought renewed attention to family planning and reproductive health issues. But the future funding landscape for family planning and reproductive health remains uncertain. Check out the webcast from a roundtable event held at the Woodrow Wilson Center in washington DC with with Musimbi Kanyoro from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Jose G. Rimon from the The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Scott Radloff from the US Agency for International Development.
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Environment Family Planning Sexual and reproductive health
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Guttmacher: The cost of unsafe abortion
May 05, 2010 Guttmacher: The cost of unsafe abortion
Treating the complications that result from unsafe abortion costs Africa and Latin America $227-280 million each year, according to a new study from the Guttmacher Institute. These costs (reported in 2006 US$) place a considerable added strain on struggling national health systems in Africa and Latin America, which spend an estimated $490 million annually treating complications from pregnancies and births. Moreover, unsafe abortion costs the developing world at least $341 million when the Asian and Pacific regions are taken into account. Read the report from the US-based Guttmacher Institute.
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Guttmacher: Abortion Rates Fall Worldwide
May 05, 2010 Guttmacher: Abortion Rates Fall Worldwide
Abortions and unintended pregnancies continue to decline worldwide as contraceptive use increases, yet unsafe abortion still causes some 70,000 deaths each year, according to a new report released today by the Guttmacher Institute.
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Sexual and Reproductive Health in Distress
May 05, 2010 Sexual and Reproductive Health in Distress
On 21 October 2009 the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU) and Marie Stopes International as members of the consortium Countdown 2015 Europe, organised a workshop on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Distress.
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Abortion Family Planning HIV/AIDS MDGs Sexual and reproductive health
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Is Your Web Site Media-Friendly?
May 05, 2010 Is Your Web Site Media-Friendly?
Follow these steps to create a useful online resource for journalists
By Rebecca Bernstein and Arthur Page
It made for an inspirational baseball movie theme, but the mantra "If you build it, they will come" is the wrong approach for creating an institutional Web site for the news media. UB
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How to Write a News Release
May 05, 2010 How to Write a News Release
Purpose
A news release is a brief news story that can be printed or broadcast as is, rewritten by a journalist, or used by a journalist as a starting point to gather more information for a news article or program. A research organization generally distributes a news release to the media when a newsworthy event takes place ("the news peg").
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Crafting Key Messages
May 05, 2010 Crafting Key Messages
Developed by the World AIDS Campaign, this document helps explain what makes a good 'key message' for advocacy.
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Strategic options for NGOs: advancing the ICPD at 15
May 06, 2010 Strategic options for NGOs: advancing the ICPD at 15
NGOs have played a central role in the development, promotion and implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) since the time it was developed in Cairo in 1994. The diversity of NGOs' perspectives, functions, scope, origins, missions and goals from around the world have created a comprehensive approach to SRHR that is vital for the full implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action. Now, fifteen years later, the role of NGOs is more important than ever to achieve the goals and objectives articulated in Cairo.
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 Contraceptive Security and Meeting Reproductive Health Needs in Southeast Asia
May 06, 2010 Contraceptive Security and Meeting Reproductive
Health Needs in Southeast Asia
This synthesis report reviews the provision of contraceptive services and commodities in Southeast Asia, assessing progress in achieving contraceptive security and meeting the reproductive health needs of the region's population. The purpose is to systematize fragmented knowledge into an integrated evidence base for follow-up study, advocacy and action.
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Regional Governments Pledge to Complete Cairo Reproductive Health Agenda
May 06, 2010 Regional Governments Pledge to Complete Cairo Reproductive Health Agenda
18 September 2009
UN meeting seeks to accelerate progress towards development goals for 2015
A global action plan linking reproductive health, women's rights and development remains an urgent priority 15 years after its adoption, Asian and the Pacific governments affirmed today.
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Reproductive health supplies in the Pacific - an overview
May 06, 2010 Reproductive health supplies in the Pacific - an overview
The regional context
The Pacific is a region of small island developing states with diverse landscapes and population groups. Key sexual and reproductive health and rights issues for the region include:
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Determinants of actual condom use among adolescents in Thailand
May 06, 2010 Determinants of actual condom use among adolescents in Thailand
N Khumsaen, FA GaryJournal of the Association of Nurses In AIDS Care 2009 May-Jun;20(3):218-29.Abstract: This study examined the relationships among attitudes toward condom use, personal characteristics, condom use self-efficacy, and actual condom use among Thai adolescents. Predictors of condom use were also investigated. The sample consisted of 270 Thai vocational students aged 18 to 21 years. Multiple regressions were used to estimate the correlates between the independent study variables and condom use among Thai adolescents. The results showed that self-reported history of alcohol or drug use, attitudes toward condom use, and condom use self-efficacy were related to actual condom use.
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Trends in adolescent contraceptive use in developing countries
May 06, 2010 Trends in adolescent contraceptive use in developing countries
A study of women's contraceptive use around the world finds that sexually active 15-19-year-olds are more likely than their 20-49-year-old counterparts to use contraceptives inconsistently and, on average, experience a 25% higher rate of contraceptive failure.
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