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In Ethiopia, most girls who marry before 18 have never been to school

According to a new study, the lack of educational opportunities for girls is fueling Ethiopia’s high level of early marriage. Of the 20–24-year-old women surveyed, most of those who had married before age 15 had never been to school (79%) and only 3% had attained any secondary schooling. Adolescents married at a younger age were also found to face greater health risks and risks of forced sex than older adolescents. While virtually all women reported that their first sexual relations had been more...

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Melissa Martin on April 11, 2013

Disadvantaged populations in maternal health in China – Who and Why?

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By Beibei Yuan, Xu Qian, Sarah Thomsen Background: China has made impressive progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for maternal and reproductive health, but ensuring that progress reaches all segments of the population remains a challenge for policy makers. The aim of this review is to map disadvantaged populations in terms of maternal health in China, and to explain the causes of these inequities to promote policy action. Methods: We searched PUBMED, Popline, Proquest and more...

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Umeå Centre for... on April 3, 2013

Inequity in India: the case of maternal and reproductive health

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By Linda Sanneving, Nadja Trygg, Deepak Saxena, Dileep Mavalankar, Sarah Thomsen Background: Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 is focused on reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health care. India has made extensive efforts to achieve MDG 5 and in some regions much progress has been achieved. Progress has been uneven and inequitable however, and many women still lack access to maternal and reproductive health care. Objective: In this review, a framework more...

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Umeå Centre for... on April 3, 2013

New Articles in Global Health: Science and Practice

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Staff with the EngenderHealth-led RESPOND Project have published two scientific articles in the inaugural issue of the journal Global Health: Science and Practice: 1. In a Commentary titled "Contraceptive Implants: Providing Better Choice to Meet Growing Family Planning Demand," (http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/1/1/11.full) Roy Jacobstein and Harriet Stanley (both of EngenderHealth) discuss the great potential of hormonal implants to help meet the growing demand for family planning in low- more...

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Elkin Konuk on March 28, 2013

Health, Education, Social Protection News & Notes 07/2013

A bi-weekly newsletter supported by GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit). The newsletter is between 25 and 35 pages in Adobe PDF format - usually not larger than 650 kB and deals with summaries of books, online publications, electronic resources, web pages, training opportunities, conferences and computer and internet tips & tricks. You can download back issues (2005 - 2013) of this newsletter at: http://german-practice-collection.org/en/links/newsletters/hesp-news more...

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Dieter Neuvians on March 27, 2013

Meeting the Need for Modern Contraception: Effective Solutions to a Pressing Global Challenge

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The RESPOND Project is pleased to announce publication in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics of a comprehensive article addressing family planning programs and the provision of modern contraception. "Meeting the Need for Modern Contraception: Effective Solutions to a Pressing Global Challenge," coauthored by RESPOND Medical Director Dr. Roy Jacobstein and three key staff from the U.S. Agency for International Development, reviews such important topics as the benefits of more...

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Elkin Konuk on March 18, 2013

Climate change and the potential effects on maternal and pregnancy outcomes: an assessment of the most vulnerable — the mother, fetus, and newborn child

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By Charlotta Rylander, Jon Øyvind Odland, Torkjel Manning Sandanger In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presented a large amount of evidence about global warming and the impact of human activities on global climate change. The Lancet Commission have identified a number of ways in which climate change can influence human health: lack of food and safe drinking water, poor sanitation, population migration, changing disease patterns and morbidity, more frequent extreme more...

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Umeå Centre for... on March 12, 2013

Announcing RESPOND Project Briefs: Views on Family Planning and LA/PMs

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In 2011 and 2012, The RESPOND Project conducted qualitative research in Nigeria, Malawi, and Cambodia to gain insights into the factors that may constrain the use of long-acting and permanent methods of contraception (LA/PMs)—the intrauterine device (IUD), the hormonal implant, female sterilization, and vasectomy. These countries were chosen because they are U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) priority countries and because they represent not only geographic diversity, but also more...

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Elkin Konuk on March 4, 2013

Report: A Fine Balance: Contraceptive Choice in the 21st Century—An Action Agenda

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In September 2012, the EngenderHealth-led RESPOND Project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), convened a diverse group of multidisciplinary experts from 11 countries at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center to examine the intersection of contraceptive choice and human rights. The object of the consultation (titled "A Fine Balance: Contraceptive Choice in the 21st Century") was to bring together people who often approach the issues of choice and rights from more...

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Elkin Konuk on March 1, 2013

Adapting an Employer-Based Approach to Support Increased Access to and Use of LA/PMs

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Project Brief No. 9, January 2013 The RESPOND Project implemented an employer-based approach in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, that sought to increase workers' awareness of and utilization of family planning (FP), particularly their use of long-acting and permanent methods of contraception (LA/PMs). This approach engaged company managers to: obtain support their active support, identify existing private-sector services as referral sites for employees interested in FP, increase access to and more...

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Elkin Konuk on March 1, 2013

Will the High Level Panel Measure up to expectations?

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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have amply illustrated the difficulties of trying to assess progress and maintain accountability on poverty targets. While some MDG monitoring data are reasonably complete and timely, such as the child and maternal mortality indicators for goals 4 and 5, others are geographically patchy and often very out of date. For example, data for monitoring gender equality in education dates from 1999. As economist Jeffrey Sachs has highlighted “the lack of timely more...

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D C on February 25, 2013

Integrated Planning, Assessment, Reporting and Learning (IPARL) Overview

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To effectively address today’s complex problems requires those working on such issues to have continuous improvement systems that concretely tie evaluation to strategy development and implementation; promote real-time learning, sharing and course- correction; and gather consistent comparable data at multiple levels and across activity streams.

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D C on February 10, 2013

Adapting to Aging: Sustainable Healthy Living

Managing the Current Aged Populace: Establishing Age Friendly Communities The WHO Global Age Friendly Cities Project identified?eight key areas in which communities can become more age-friendly, thereby securing sustainable living environments. These areas are: outdoor spaces and buildings, and well lit sidewalks transportation housing social participation respect and social inclusion civic participation and employment communication and information community support and health services more...

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Mohini Singh on February 10, 2013

In Uganda, slow pace in scaling up access to reproductive health care services costs thousands of lives and billions of shillings

According to a new Guttmacher report, one in three sexually active women in Uganda, both married and unmarried, want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a method of contraception. Only 26% of married women and 38% of unmarried women in the country use a modern method, and more than half of all pregnancies are unintended…more

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Melissa Martin on February 7, 2013

The State of Reproductive Health and RIghts: 50-State Report Card

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Forty-three years ago, the Population Institute played a critical role in expanding family planning services for those in need, including the enactment of Title X, the federal program that provides low-income and uninsured individuals in the U.S. with access to birth control and other preventive healthcare services. Thanks to Title X and expanded Medicaid coverage, tens of millions of women with limited financial means have been able to limit or space their pregnancies using modern methods of more...

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D C on February 5, 2013

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