Recently added articles from Reproductive Health Matters:
Conflict and crisis settings: promoting sexual and reproductive rights.(EDITORIAL)
May 01, 2008; Petchesky, Rosalind P. ... "The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule ... Insofar as its inhabitants [are] stripped of every political status and wholly reduced to bare life, the camp [is] also the most absolute biopolitical space ever to have been realized, in which ...
Reproductive health: a right for refugees and internally displaced persons.
May 01, 2008; Austin, Judy ... Abstract: Continued political and civil unrest in low-resource countries underscores the ongoing need for specialised reproductive health services for displaced people. Displaced women particularly face high maternal mortality, unmet need for family planning, complications following unsafe ...
Legal aspects of conflict-induced migration by women.
May 01, 2008; Macklin, Audrey ... Abstract: This paper surveys the international legal frameworks, including the many guidelines, handbooks, resolutions, toolkits, conclusions and manuals produced by various United Nations bodies, that confirm an awareness of the protection issues specific to women and girls displaced by ...
Providing reproductive health care to internally displaced persons: barriers experienced by humanitarian agencies.
May 01, 2008; Hakamies, Nina ... Abstract: Reproductive health care for internally displaced persons (IDPs) is recognised by the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations and the Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium as a neglected area in humanitarian relief operations. To ...
The MOM Project: delivering maternal health services among internally displaced populations in eastern Burma.(Mobile Obstetric Maternal )
May 01, 2008; Mullany, Luke C. ... Abstract: Alternative strategies to increase access to reproductive health services among internally displaced populations are urgently needed. In eastern Burma, continuing conflict and lack of functioning health systems render the emphasis on facility-based delivery with skilled ...
A basic package of health services for post-conflict countries: implications for sexual and reproductive health services.
May 01, 2008; Roberts, Bayard ... Abstract: Health systems in countries emerging from conflict are often characterised by damaged infrastructure, limited human resources, weak stewardship and a proliferation of non-governmental organisations. This con result in the disrupted and fragmented delivery of health services. One ...
Delivering maternal health care services in an internal conflict setting in Maguindanao, Philippines.
May 01, 2008; Lee, Romeo B. ... Abstract: To improve access to maternal health care and family planning services in conflict-stricken Maguindanao province, southern Philippines, several non-governmental organisations have begun collaborating with local public health services. This exploratory study describes the ...
Reproductive health concerns in six conflict-affected areas of Sri Lanka.
May 01, 2008; Kottegoda, Sepali ... Abstract: This article draws on a study conducted by the Women and Media Collective between 2004 and 2005 to highlight some of the reproductive health concerns of women from Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim ethnic groups, living in situations of conflict in Sri Lanka. The study focussed on ...
Conflict and development: challenges in responding to sexual and reproductive health needs in Timor-Leste.
May 01, 2008; Wayte, Kayli ... Abstract: In April and May 2006, internal conflict in Timor-Leste led to the displacement of approximately 150,000 people, around 15% of the population. The violence was most intense in Dili, the capital, where many residents were displaced into camps in the city or to the districts ....
The need for priority reproductive health services for displaced Iraqi women and girls.
May 01, 2008; Chynoweth, Sarah K. ... Abstract: Disregarding reproductive health in situations of conflict or natural disaster has serious consequences, particularly for women and girls affected by the emergency. In an effort to protect the health and save the lives of women and girls in crises, international standards for ...
Palestinian women's sexual and reproductive health rights in a longstanding humanitarian crisis.
May 01, 2008; Bosmans, Marleen ... Abstract: This paper results from a study conducted in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in September 2002 to test the usefulness of a guide for a comprehensive approach to sexual and reproductive health rights and needs of refugee women. In-depth interviews with key informants from 19 ...
Deaths among young, single women in 2000-2001 in the West Bank, Palestinian Occupied Territories.
May 01, 2008; Al-Adili, Nadim ... Abstract: A study in 2000-2001 of causes of death of women of reproductive age (15-49) in the West Bank, Palestinian Occupied Territories, found that 154 of the 411 deceased women aged 15-49 with known marital status were single. Death notification forms for reported deaths were analysed ...
Health services for survivors of gender-based violence in Northern Uganda: a qualitative study.
May 01, 2008; Henttonen, Mirkka ... Abstract: The 20-year war in northern Uganda has resulted in up to 1.7 million people being internally displaced, and impoverishment and vulnerability to violence amongst the civilian population. This qualitative study examined the status of health services available for the survivors of ...
Fistula and traumatic genital injury from sexual violence in a conflict setting in Eastern Congo: case studies.
May 01, 2008; Longombe, Ahuka Ona ... Abstract: The Eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC) is currently undergoing a brutal war. Armed groups from the DRC and neighbouring countries are committing atrocities and systematically using sexual violence as a weapon of war to humiliate, intimidate and dominate ...
Communal violence in Gujarat, India: impact of sexual violence and responsibilities of the health care system.
May 01, 2008; Khanna, Renu ... Abstract: Situations of chronic conflict across the globe make it imperative to draw attention to its gendered health consequences, particularly the violation of women's reproductive and sexual rights. Since early 2002 in Gujarat, western India, the worst kind of state-sponsored violence ...
Guidelines for Gender-Sensitive Disaster Management by Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development: a revolutionary document.
May 01, 2008; Silverstein, Leni M. ... IN 2000, at a special session of the UN General Assembly, "Gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century", the inefficiencies and inadequacies of existing approaches and intervention methods in responding to natural disasters were highlighted, and the unambiguous need ...
Who owns the body? Indigenous African discourses of the body and contemporary sexual rights rhetoric.(COMMENTARY)(Report)
May 01, 2008; Izugbara, Chimaraoke O. ... Abstract: The realisation of sexual rights remains a daunting challenge in most of sub-Saharan Africa despite the articulation of these rights in several international documents and national laws. In this paper, we highlight a possible but neglected reason why this is so. Current sexual ...
Women, harm reduction and HIV.(MORE FEATURES)
May 01, 2008; Pinkham, Sophie ... Abstract: Gender shapes the experience of drug use and its associated risks. In most parts of the world, however, harm reduction and drug treatment programmes that tailor their services to meet women's needs are rare or nonexistent. Many existing services inadvertently exclude women, and ...
In vitro fertilisation policy in Israel and women's perspectives: the more the better?
May 01, 2008; Birenbaum-Carmeli, Daphna ... Abstract: Israel offers nearly full funding for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) to any Israeli woman irrespective of her marital status or sexual orientation, until she has two children with her current partner. Consequently, Israeli women are the world's most intensive consumers of IVF. This ...
Adolescent pregnancy in Argentina: evidence-based recommendations for public policies.
May 01, 2008; Gogna, Monica ... Abstract: In Argentina adolescent pregnancy is still regarded as a public health problem or a "social epidemic': However, it is necessary to ask from which perspective and for whom it is a problem, and what type of problem. This article presents the findings of a large quantitative and ...