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The Pop Reporter®

Volume 1, Number 6
14 May 2001

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REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Birth Control Patch May Offer Alternative to Pill

Weekly Contraceptive Patch Associated with Better Compliance than Daily Oral Contraceptive, Study Finds

Birth Control May Reduce Risk of Ovarian Cancer

Sterilization Linked to Lower Ovarian Cancer Risk

U.N. Reproductive Health Conference Addresses 'Impending' Future Shortage of Contraceptives Worldwide

African Americans, Immigrant Women Have Higher Maternal Mortality Rate, CDC Study Finds

Risk of Mother-Child Transmission of Syphilis is Elevated if the Woman has Clinical Signs of Disease

Abusive Boyfriends Raise STD Risk in Teen Girls

HIV / AIDS

US Pledges $200 Million to Global AIDS Fund

Nigeria: Researchers Optimistic Over Prospects for HIV Vaccine

Every Minute 11 Persons are Infected with HIV Globally

HIV/AIDS Devastating Rural African Labor Force

International Olympic Committee to Donate $100,000 to UN for AIDS Fight

In Sub-Saharan Africa, Circumcised Men are Less Likely than Uncircumcised Men to Become Infected with HIV

HIV/AIDS: Condom Shortage Could Double Infections -- Experts

POPULATION

Prevention of Unwanted Births in India Would Result in Replacement Fertility

As Russian Population Dwindles, Leaders Worry About Future

Contraceptive Use, Intention to Use and Unmet Need During the Extended Postpartum Period

WOMEN'S HEALTH

Mother's Index Ranks Sweden First, Guinea-Bissau Last

C-Section Birth May Increase Risk of Adult Asthma

Hormone Linked to Severe Premenstrual Symptoms

India: Violence Against Women -- A Double Discrimination

Congo: Conflict Causing High Infant Mortality, NGO Says

African First Ladies Attend Maternal Health Forum

PROFILES / SPECIAL REPORTS

Sexually Transmitted Infections
Rates of sexually transmitted diseases are increasing, particularly in people aged between 15 and 25. How best to tackle this increase is unresolved, although several tests have recently been developed that are providing new opportunities for screening, early detection, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections and their complications, particularly for Chlamydia trachomatis, herpes simplex virus, and human papillomavirus. Already these tests are being used in research studies, but their introduction into clinical practice raises complex issues. This articles describes the tests that are now available for the major sexually transmitted infections and discusses the important issues they raise in the management of those diseases. Links to other sources for STD diagnosis and treatment are included throughout the article, and an editorial (http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7295/1135) discusses the focus of reducing the period of infectiousness, and what developments in treatment mean for developing countries, where the disease burden of STDs is substantial.

Issues in Perspective: The Reproductive Health of Refugees

• The history of the movement to provide adequate care to such populations;
• Existing reproductive rights and policies that international agencies and organizations have adopted;
• Literature review determining how refugee women's reproductive health status is similar to and different from that of settled populations;
• A description of efforts to date about what services are currently provided to refugees and the internally displaced, and;
• Specific contraceptive needs of Cambodian refugees who lived in a camp in Thailand.

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