Beginning with sustainable scale up in mind: initial results from a population, health and environment project in East Africa
Small-scale pilot projects have demonstrated that integrated population, health and environment approaches can address the needs and rights of vulnerable communities. However, these and other types of health and development projects have rarely gone on to influence larger policy and programme development. ExpandNet, a network of health professionals working on scaling up, argues this is because projects are often not designed with future sustainability and scaling up in mind. Developing and implementing sustainable interventions that can be applied on a larger scale requires a different mindset and new approaches to small-...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Laura Ghiron, Lucy Shillingi, Charles Kabiswa, Godfrey Ogonda, Antony Omimo, Alexis Ntabona, Ruth Simmons, Peter Fajans Source Type: research
Statement from the International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion
The International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion is a coalition of organizations and networks that support women’s right to safe, legal abortion, with members in 108 countries across the globe. Our aims are to promote universal access to safe, legal abortion as a women’s health and human rights issue, and to support women’s autonomy to make their own decisions whether and when to have children and have access to the means of acting on those decisions without risk to their health and lives. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Statement from the University of the Witwatersrand pertaining to anti-homosexuality legislation in Africa
The University of the Witwatersrand notes with dismay and concern recent legislation in Nigeria and Uganda that criminalises women and men who express themselves through relationships other than those defined as heterosexual. It also decries the targeted violence that has accompanied this legislation in these and other countries. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Message from the Office of the Vice-Chancellor and Principal Source Type: research
Bookshelf: National Contraception and Fertility Planning Policy and Service Delivery Guidelines
Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa, December 2012 (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Beyond bonus or bomb: upholding the sexual and reproductive health of young people
Described as a blessing or a curse, a bonus or a bomb, the youthful population boom in the global South is thought to be the catalyst of present and future social change on a massive scale. These binary understandings of youth are popular among proponents of development programs aimed at young people, including for family planning. But dualistic, numbers-based theories oversimplify a much more complex picture. They narrow our perceptions of young populations and, when lacking more detailed understanding based in youth experience, have the potential to constrict sexual and reproductive health and rights. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Anne Hendrixson Source Type: research
Providing family planning services to remote communities in areas of high biodiversity through a Population-Health-Environment programme in Madagascar
Population-Health-Environment (PHE) is an interdisciplinary model of programme design which recognises the complex interconnections between people, their health and their environment. PHE responds holistically to the challenges faced by ecosystems and the communities dependent on them, with thematically distinct but interconnected work strands sharing the same infrastructure, resources and goals. This has been shown to achieve better outcomes than tackling health and environmental issues in isolation. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Vik Mohan, Tess Shellard Source Type: research
Community consensus statement on the use of antiretroviral therapy in preventing HIV transmission
http://www.hivt4p.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Community-consensus-statement-with-appendices-and-references.pdf (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: NAM and European AIDS Treatment Group Source Type: research
Having fewer children makes it possible to educate them all: an ethnographic study of fertility decline in north-western Tigray, Ethiopia
This article is about the role of education and other factors in fertility decline in the context of current Ethiopian policies on population and sustainable development, based on an ethnographic study of women’s agency and girls’ pursuit of education in one semi-urban and one rural area in north-western Tigray, in northern Ethiopia. Long-term environmental insecurity and scarcity of arable land for the younger generation in this area serve as important background. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Thera Mjaaland Source Type: research
A three-pronged approach to advocacy for sustainable national funding
This article provides background regarding the challenges in monitoring developing country contributions; summarizes current donor initiatives to strengthen civil society advocacy; and reviews theoretical approaches to assessing advocacy. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Karen Hoehn Source Type: research
Population, sexual and reproductive health, rights and sustainable development: forging a common agenda
This article suggests that sexual and reproductive health and rights activists seeking to influence the post-2015 international development paradigm must work with sustainable development advocates concerned with a range of issues, including climate change, environmental issues, and food and water security, and that a way of building bridges with these communities is to demonstrate how sexual and reproductive health and rights are relevant for these issues. An understanding of population dynamics, including urbanization and migration, as well as population growth, can help to clarify these links. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Karen Newman, Sarah Fisher, Susannah Mayhew, Judith Stephenson Source Type: research
Bookshelf: Powerful Synergies: Gender Equality, Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability
The globally shared vision for sustainable development has a strong gender dimension that highlights the need to continue identifying gender equality and women’s empowerment as a core development goal in itself and as a catalyst for reaching all other goals and objectives. As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, the United Nations is leading preparations for a post-2015 sustainable development agenda, both to accelerate achieving the MDGs and to create a framework that will build on the achievements of the past 15 years. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Edited by: Blerta Cela, Irene Dankelman, Jeffrey Stern Source Type: research
Bookshelf: Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Reproduction, Globalization, and the State conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health. Leading anthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies affect the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world. Based on research in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Western Europe, their fascinating ethnographies provide insight into reproduction and reproductive health broadly conceived to encompass population control, HIV/AIDS, assisted reproductive technol...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Carole H Browner, Sargent Carolyn F Source Type: research
Resilience, integrated development and family planning: building long-term solutions
This article first examines the meaning of resilience as a component of responding to disasters and some of the key components of building resilience. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Roger-Mark De Souza Source Type: research
Round Up: Health and health systems, environment, sustainable development, contraception and sexual and reproductive health
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Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
The sustainable development agenda and unmet need for sexual and reproductive health and rights
In the lead-up to the post-2015 sustainable development agenda, thousands of people have travelled tens of thousands of miles, circling the globe many times, contributing to climate change, to attend consultations, official meetings and sessions and stay up all night in negotiations on content and language, arguing sometimes successfully and with great excitement, and sometimes bitterly and in anger, about what the new sustainable development agenda should include. The process could, on one level, be described as inclusiveness gone mad, but at the same time deserves high praise for inclusiveness compared to the process of ...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Marge Berer Source Type: research
