Items tagged with “Reproductive Health”
Remarks on the 15th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech on the 15th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development was delivered at the U.S. Department of State on Friday, January 8, 2010. In the speech, Secretary Clinton said that…
Women and Health: Today's Evidence Tomorrow's Agenda
Despite considerable progress in the past decades, societies continue to fail to meet the health care needs of women at key moments of their lives, particularly in their adolescent years and in older age. These are the key findings of the WHO report
Reproductive Health Roundtable
On November 18, 2009 MLI hosted a Reproductive Health Roundtable during the International Conference on Family Planning, held in Kampala, Uganda from November 15-19.
Reproductive Health
Although funding for global health is at record levels, the achievement of the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) remains severely challenged in the poorest countries of the world. Seven of the eight MDGs are directly or indirectly…
Improving Quality of Care and Use of Contraceptives in Senegal
In the 1990s, the government of Senegal implemented a series of policy changes for the provision of family planning services through the public sector. A strategy to provide high quality services through reference centres was adopted. This paper…
Are Birth-preparedness Programmes Effective?
The birth-preparedness package (BPP) promotes active preparation and decision-making for births, including pregnancy/postpartum periods, by pregnant women and their families. This paper describes a district-wide field trial of the BPP implemented…
Behavior change in perinatal care practices among rural women exposed to a women’s group intervention in Nepal
A randomized controlled trial of participatory women's groups in rural Nepal previously showed reductions in maternal and newborn mortality. In addition to the outcome data we also collected previously unreported information from the subgroup of women…
A Conceptual Model for Empowerment of the Female Community Health Volunteers in Nepal
The existing top-down approach to training may not be appropriate to empower community health volunteers to produce a sustainable change in their performance. This paper proposes a conceptual model that relies on Freire’s theory of empowerment…
Increasing Contraceptive Acceptance through Empowerment of Female Community Health Volunteers in Rural Nepal
The purpose of this study was to enhance contraceptive acceptance among currently-married women of reproductive age through empowerment training of female community health volunteers. Seventeen volunteers working in Kakani Village Development Committee…
Marital Changes and Fertility Differences among Women and Men in Urban and Rural Mali
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between types of marriage celebration, time to cohabitation of spouses and age at first birth. The data are derived from a national survey conducted in Mali (Bamako, other urban and rural areas)…
