... continued… A Journalist’s Guide To Sexual andReproductiveHealth In East Africa 13 MaternalHealthMaternalHealthMaternalHealth •• 20 percent of maternal deaths are due to indirect causes, including ... world leaders agreed that reproductivehealth was essential to achieving the goal to improve maternalhealthand committed governments to universal access toreproductivehealth by 2015 Population ... Revision; and Demographic andHealth Surveys (Ethiopia 2005, Kenya 20082009, Rwanda 2007-2008, Tanzania 2004-2005, and Uganda 2006) continued… A Journalist’s Guide To Sexual andReproductive Health...
... of health sector reforms, decreasing funds from both national and international sources for health care (including for sexual andreproductivehealth services), and the urgency to respond to ... the health sector has looked to sexual andreproductivehealth (SRH) programmes for leadership and guidance in preventing transmission, and more recently in offering some aspects of treatment and ... and men will continue to suffer from STIs and RTIs, and will come to clinics with these problems It is arguably more demoralizing for health care workers not to be able to provide care than to...
... rape and sexual abuse, and against violence towards women and girls as a human rights violation; and for programmes to encourage and enable men to adopt safe and responsible sexual andreproductive ... respond to them; the need to go beyond a health- needs and fertility-based approach, andto include legislation, advocacy and education to change cultures that condone violence and inhibit men and ... male attitudes and practices in regard to sexual andreproductive health, and men’s unmet needs Statistics confirm that men iii Partnering: A New Approach To Sexual AndReproductiveHealth play...
... degradation and contamination of FNIM lands, air, and water not only directly damages FNIM women’s sexual andreproductivehealth but also presents known and unknown health risks to their children and ... work to restore reproductive justice, fight homophobia and transphobia, and support people with disabilities Recommendations As part of our efforts to promote sexual andreproductivehealthand ... changes to NIHB policies to increase access to emergency and alternative contraceptives, counselling on sexual and mental health, and midwifery, andto encourage a return of traditional birthing to...
... reproductivehealth All are free Some organizations find it helpful to print up ethnic health profiles and circulate them at staff meetings to stimulate discussions on cross-cultural health topics ... Value other cultures? ß Make efforts to understand and connect to those from other cultures? ß Show sensitivity to different cultural beliefs about reproductive health? ß Avoid imposing values that ... areas of cross-cultural health is reproductivehealthand family planning Issues that touch on our sexuality, gender roles and families may differ substantially from culture to culture Such concerns...
... right reforms? Health sector reforms and sexual andreproductivehealth Accountability, participation and good governance critical tohealth sector reform and sexual andreproductivehealth services ... See also: Social and cultural issues in the health topic guide on sexual andreproductive health: www.eldis.org /health/ sexrepro/soccul.htm See also: Sexual andreproductivehealthand rights key ... knowledge and research gaps that need to be addressed, including: context and actors in health sector reform and SRH services; assessing the impact of reform on health systems; and methods and tools...
... Qualitative Research for Improved Health Programs A Guide to Manuals for Qualitative and Participatory Research on Child Health, Nutrition, andReproductiveHealth Peter J Winch, M.D., MPH Jennifer ... qualitative and participatory research related to child healthand nutrition andreproductivehealth The first draft of the guide was reviewed at a meeting organized by the SARA, SFPS, and BASICS projects ... tion to qualitative highly readable and reference on research methods introduction to qualitative and qualitative quantitative research on methods used in anthropology health *Key to topics — Topic...
... environment and global change Sexual andreproductivehealthand sectoral and national planning agendas The MDG5 focus and sexual andreproductivehealth Alignment and harmonization of sexual andreproductive ... responding to this burden of maternaland neonatal mortality, and mapped out strategies to achieve change Maternaland child health finds itself strongly positioned in sectoral, national and global health ... office capacity to expand into new areas, andto gain new skills in working with the UN OneHealth costing tool (12), abbreviated expenditure tracking methodologies, and monitoring and evaluation...
... between reproductivehealthand family planning and HIV/AIDS programmes and services [8,9] and have issued guidance on linkages and integration within global AIDS programmes [10-13] As global attention ... interventions and the strength of the evidence; 2) describes successful and promising interventions to reduce unintended pregnancy, to reduce HIV transmission, andto reduce reproductive morbidity and ... “sexual healthand HIV"; family planning and HIV"; “contraception and HIV"; and “cervical cancer and HIV.” Earlier material was Page of 10 identified using the same search terms in Popline and Medline...
... rights to health, and gender equity issues, and minimal attention paid to medical ethics, ’In short, we are not prepared at the universities to deal with the human and social aspects of healthand ... child, to experience pregnancy moods and motherhood's joy and love your child… ’You and your husband needs to go to the HIV/AIDS-family counsellor who will know how to convince your husband to be ... Services and Policies Week 1: Sexual andreproductivehealth services for HIV-positive women: issues of concern and obstacles to care • • Which sexual andreproductivehealth issues of concern to women...
... Sexual Coercion andReproductivehealth Page of FOREWORD Sexual Coercion andReproductiveHealth INTRODUCTION Chapter TOWARD A RESEARCH AGENDA ON SEXUAL COERCION ANDREPRODUCTIVEHEALTH Because ... standardized approaches to defining and measuring different types of abuse Questions related to violence and coercion should be integrated into ongoing research related to AIDS, sexuality andreproductive ... coercion and women's reproductivehealth with a focus on research From November 22 to 23, 1993 about 50 researchers, activists andreproductivehealth practitioners gathered in Mew York to share...
... Young People and HIV AIDS, and the Sexual andReproductiveHealth Minimum Package for Uganda.4 The National Policy Guidelines and Service Standards for Sexual andReproductiveHealthand Rights ... Standards for Sexual andReproductiveHealthand Rights, Kampala, Uganda Ministry of Health (MOH) [Uganda] and ORC Macro 2006 Uganda HIV/AIDS SeroBehavioural survey 2004-2005, Calverton, Maryland, ... choices and be able to balance responsibility with sexual andreproductive needs In view of this, a diagnostic study was undertaken in Uganda to understand the sexual andreproductivehealth needs...
... and Eva Weissman Editorial review and inputs were also provided by Garry Conille and Lindsay Edouard Data and analyses relevant to the development and use of reproductivehealth indicators (and ... gender equality andto increasing men’s reproductivehealth Guaranteeing SRH and rights is important to ensure that girls and women lead longer and healthier lives, and has strong and direct impacts ... timing of their children andto have the information and means to so, and the right to attain the highest standard of sexual andreproductivehealth It also includes their right to make decisions concerning...
... Department of Healthand Human Services and other agencies to plan health services andhealth education programs andto perform statistical studies of families, fertility, andhealth NSFG data ... poor reproductivehealth are likely to be more severe in this group than among persons aged 18–19 years because early pregnancy and poor health are likely to interrupt their schooling andto have ... System and multiple surveys and surveillance systems that monitor sexual andreproductivehealth outcomes into a single reference report that makes this information more easily accessible to policy...
... preparation to present basic indicators of fertility, parenting, andhealth for men 15–44 years of age, as well as sexual behavior andreproductivehealth of men and women (11–13) Strengths and Limitations ... behaviors related toreproductive health, including those related to risk for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and other STIs Topics covered in this report include: + Children ever born and total births ... Epidemiology, andHealth Promotion Charles J Rothwell, M.S., Director for Vital Statistics Jane E Sisk, Ph.D., Director for Health Care Statistics Jane F Gentleman, Ph.D., Director for Health Interview...
... quality and standard of free or affordable health care and programmes as provided to other persons, including in the area of sexual andreproductivehealthand populationbased public health programmes.” ... quality and standard of free or affordable health care and programmes as provided to other persons, including in the area of sexual andreproductivehealthand population-based public health programmes” ... Make Sexual andReproductiveHealth Information and Services Available to Persons with Disabilities Make sexual andreproductivehealth information and services appropriately accessible to persons...
... sexual andreproductivehealth coordinator of reproductiveand child health section of Dar and the AYA/YFS coordinator of the safe motherhood programme of Zanzibar) In addition, field visits and ... Health adolescent sexual andreproductivehealth coordinator In March 2004, with Ministry of Health funding, the Reproductiveand Child Health Section organized an advocacy meeting in Moshi town ... Swahili so as to be better understood by all health staff Conclusion and Recommendations AYA in Tanzania, together with the Ministries of Health of the mainland and Zanzibar Island, have demonstrated...
... political and organizational commitment to improving health service quality and equity In order to implement together effective health sector reform andreproductivehealth care, managers and providers ... of the World Health Organization, 2000, 78 (5) Health sector reform andreproductivehealth in Latin America emphasis on reproductivehealth Pivotal factors in making reproductivehealth a priority ... realization of the reproductivehealth agenda (16) One of the major challenges currently facing health managers is how to implement together health sector reform and the reproductivehealth approach...
... agreeing to a landmark resolution on adolescent SRHR SRHR services have been shown to: save lives, improve health, empower women, increase women’s access to education and employment, contribute to healthier ... access to family planning services and information are less likely to become pregnant and drop out of school Promote gender equality and empower women Being able to plan whether and when to have ... New Zealand Aid Programme focuses on areas and activities where New Zealand’s development assistance can have the most positive impact, and over half of New Zealand’s total aid goes to this region...
... rituals, and traditions impact decisions regarding health, and vary from individual to individual, family to family, and culture to culture Various factors often create discrepancies between actual and ... Physical and Personal Wellness in Health Prepared Graduates: Apply knowledge and skills necessary to make personal decisions that promote healthy relationships and sexual andreproductivehealth ... Physical and Personal Wellness in Health Prepared Graduates: Apply knowledge and skills necessary to make personal decisions that promote healthy relationships and sexual andreproductive health...