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Source: Reproductive Health Matters - October 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Editorial Board
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Source: Reproductive Health Matters - October 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health among low-income youth in three Brazilian cities
In this article, we investigate how gender-based violence (GBV) affects the sexual and reproductive health of impoverished adolescents and young adults. We analyse data from a 2011 survey of 450 young women and 300 young men aged 15 –29, living in poor neighbourhoods of three middle-sized cities in Minas Gerais, Brazil. In this survey we used a closed-ended questionnaire to collect data from 150 women and 100 men in each city. Our main goal was to explore the relationship between GBV and young women’s autonomy in relation t o their sexuality, using indicators appropriate to Brazil. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - August 11, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Alessandra Sampaio Chacham, Andrea Branco Sim ão, André Junqueira Caetano Tags: FEATURE Source Type: research
Headline violence and silenced pleasure: contested framings of consensual sex, power and rape in Delhi, India 2011-2014
Though coercion and rape have cast a persistent shadow over prospects of sexual health and consent in contemporary India, other narratives, agency and tools are quietly emerging to transform collective claims of power and bodily dignity. In these narratives from collectives, NGOs, on social media and among friends, dialogues about consent and pleasure feature prominently. This paper analyses statements in the news made by highly visible political and public figures regarding the subject of rape in the context of themes emerging from ethnography and semi-structured interviews with middle class people in Delhi. (Source: Repr...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - July 28, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Emme Edmunds, Ankit Gupta Tags: FEATURE Source Type: research
Hidden from view: Canadian gestational surrogacy practices and outcomes, 2001-2012
This paper raises some troubling questions about the fertility treatments provided to Canadian gestational surrogates, women not genetically related to the child that they carry. Using information published between 2003 and 2012 by Canada ’s Assisted Reproduction Registry, the paper traces the growing incidence of births to gestational surrogates. The transfer of more than one embryo increases the chance of pregnancy and the incidence of multiple births, and while the incidence of multiple births has declined overall since 2010, ge stational surrogates consistently experience a higher proportion of multiple births and ex...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - July 20, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Pamela M. White Tags: FEATURE Source Type: research
Towards smarter HIV laws: considerations for improving HIV-specific legislation in sub-Saharan Africa
As of 31 July 2014, some 27 countries in sub-Saharan Africa had adopted HIV-specific legislation to respond to the legal challenges posed by the HIV epidemic. However, serious concerns raised about these laws have led to calls for their repeal and review. Through the theory of “smarter legislation”, this article develops a framework for analysing the concerns relating to the process, content and implementation of HIV-specific laws. This theoretical framework provides specific guidance and considerations for reforming HIV-specific laws and for ensuring that they achiev e their goals of creating enabling legal environmen...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - July 20, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Patrick Michael Eba Tags: FEATURE Source Type: research
Self-management of medical abortion: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Medical abortion is a method of pregnancy termination that by its nature enables more active involvement of women in the process of managing, and sometimes even administering the medications for, their abortions. This qualitative evidence synthesis reviewed the global evidence on experiences with, preferences for, and concerns about greater self-management of medical abortion with lesser health professional involvement. We focused on qualitative research from multiple perspectives on women ’s experiences of self-management of first trimester medical abortion ( < 12weeks gestation). (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - July 20, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Megan Wainwright, Christopher J. Colvin, Alison Swartz, Natalie Leon Tags: ISSUES IN CURRENT SERVICE DELIVERY Source Type: research
Hidden from view: Canadian gestational surrogacy practices and outcomes, 2001-2012
This paper raises some troubling questions about the fertility treatments provided to Canadian gestational surrogates, women not genetically related to the child that they carry. Using information published between 2003 and 2012 by Canada ’s Assisted Reproduction Registry, the paper traces the growing incidence of births to gestational surrogates. The transfer of more than one embryo increases the chance of pregnancy and the incidence of multiple births, and while the incidence of multiple births has declined overall since 2010, ge stational surrogates consistently experience a higher proportion of multiple births and ex...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - July 20, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Pamela M. White Tags: FEATURE Source Type: research
Towards smarter HIV laws: considerations for improving HIV-specific legislation in sub-Saharan Africa
As of 31 July 2014, some 27 countries in sub-Saharan Africa had adopted HIV-specific legislation to respond to the legal challenges posed by the HIV epidemic. However, serious concerns raised about these laws have led to calls for their repeal and review. Through the theory of “smarter legislation”, this article develops a framework for analysing the concerns relating to the process, content and implementation of HIV-specific laws. This theoretical framework provides specific guidance and considerations for reforming HIV-specific laws and for ensuring that they achiev e their goals of creating enabling legal environmen...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - July 20, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Patrick Michael Eba Tags: FEATURE Source Type: research
Self-management of medical abortion: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Medical abortion is a method of pregnancy termination that by its nature enables more active involvement of women in the process of managing, and sometimes even administering the medications for, their abortions. This qualitative evidence synthesis reviewed the global evidence on experiences with, preferences for, and concerns about greater self-management of medical abortion with lesser health professional involvement. We focused on qualitative research from multiple perspectives on women ’s experiences of self-management of first trimester medical abortion ( < 12weeks gestation). (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - July 20, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Megan Wainwright, Christopher J. Colvin, Alison Swartz, Natalie Leon Tags: ISSUES IN CURRENT SERVICE DELIVERY Source Type: research
Rosa Tunberg
It is with great sadness that I wish to inform everyone that Rosa Tunberg, who worked for Reproductive Health Matters from October 1999 to August 2007, died from cancer on 10 January 2015 in California. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - July 19, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: IN MEMORIAM Source Type: research
Gender-based violence: a barrier to sexual and reproductive health and rights
The extent of violence against women and girls across the world is alarming and is increasingly recognised not only as a grave human rights violation, but also as a public health problem that affects the lives and physical and mental health of millions of women and girls globally. Rooted in gender inequality, violence against women and girls constitutes a major barrier to their sexual and reproductive health and rights. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - July 17, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Shirin Heidari, Claudia Garc ía Moreno Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: research
Reflecting on adolescents ’ evolving sexual and reproductive health rights: canvassing the opinion of social workers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
This study explored the perspectives and practices of 17 social workers from KwaZulu-Natal on legislation relevant to adolescents ’ evolving sexual and reproductive health and rights and the decriminalisation of consensual underage sex. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - July 15, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Zaynab Essack, Jacintha Toohey, Ann Strode Tags: ISSUES IN CURRENT POLICY Source Type: research
