Research and Programme Development in Reproductive Health
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In spite of the sound arguments - based on public health concerns, human rights, equity, and social justice - calling for a strong focus on sexual and reproductive health, in many countries the concept of comprehensive reproductive health care is still insufficiently understood and applied.
Towards adulthood. Exploring the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents in South Asia
Provides a comprehensive overview of the socio-demographic and sexual and reproductive health situation of adolescents in South Asia, including available evidence about the health risks and challenges that young people face in South Asian countries.
Transforming health systems: Gender and rights in reproductive health
Understanding the depth and challenge of human rights as they relate to sexual and reproductive health including specific tools related to gender equity and equality, and monitoring the application of human rights to sexual and reproductive health.
Advancing Safe Motherhood through Human rights
This report considers how human rights laws can be applied to relieve the estimated 1,400 deaths world-wide that occur every day, an annual mortality rate of 515,000, that women suffer because they are pregnant.
Technical and Policy Guidance on Safe Abortion
At the Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly in June 1999, Governments agreed that "in circumstances where abortion is not against the law, health systems should train and equip health-service providers and should take other measures to ensure that such abortion is safe and accessible.
Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use
This book sets out detailed criteria for determining whether individual family planning clients are medically eligible to use, or continue using, a particular contraceptive method.