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The Pop Reporter®

Volume 1, Number 14
9 July 2001

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FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH POLICY

Catholic Church Must Provide Contraceptive Health Insurance for Employees

Kenyan President Seeks Death Penalty for Those Who Knowingly Transmit HIV

Thailand: Thai Government, Airline Urged To Fight Sex Tourism

FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Morning-After Pill Used By A Million Women in UK

Home Fertility Tests for Men and Women

Oral Contraceptives May Decrease Effectiveness of Trovafloxacin

In Vitro Fertilization More Successful than Single Sperm Injection in Non-Male-Factor Infertility Cases

Does Condom Prevent Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Diseases? Do Not Bet On It; But the Answer Depends On Who You Talk to

HIV / AIDS

HIV Test Kits to Be Given On Priority Basis

CDC Study Finds Benefit to Routine HIV Testing at Urgent Care Clinics in 'High HIV Prevalence' Areas

Nepal Government Tackles HIV/AIDS

Zambia: 'HIV Statistics Are Starting to Improve'

What the World Should Do to Fight HIV

European Union Joins Fight Over Drug Patents

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH

Zambia: 10 Mothers Die Daily From Pregnancy

Vaginal Birth After Caesarean, Prostaglandin Induction of Labor Riskier than Previously Thought, NEJM Study Says

Senegal: 90% Of Maternal Deaths Avoidable, UNFPA Official Says

MEN'S HEALTH

British Scientists Unveil Male Fertility Home Testing Kit

Indonesian Husbands Urged to Participate in Family Planning Programme

Clinical Trials of Reversible Male Contraceptive Begin in Canada

POPULATION

China to Relax One-Child Policy

WOMEN'S HEALTH

Breast Self Examination May do More Harm than Good

Referral for Menstrual Problems: Cross Sectional Survey of Symptoms, Reasons for Referral, and Management

Nairobi: Empowering Village Women in Promoting Health Care

Women: Vulnerable but Vital in the Fight Against AIDS

Bone Loss Linked to Birth-control Pills, Exercise

YOUTH

Youth Position Paper on the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS

Surgeon General Releases Report on Sexual Health for Teens, Calls for Open Dialogue Between Adults, Youth

PROFILES / SPECIAL REPORTS

Factory-Based Daycare
Children from rural villages often pay a high price when their families migrate to Bangladesh's crowded cities, seeking to escape desperate poverty. Typically, they are left to fend for themselves at home in city slums while their parents are working. They lack schooling, proper nutrition, and care because older relatives, who traditionally cared for the young, stay behind in the village. Some children are even locked in rooms without food or water. Mothers pay a price too because their ability to work drops when they worry about their children, or they take time off to care for them.

The Woman Behind Our AIDS Campaign
"Pound, pound, pound," laughs Dr Nono Simelela, describing how she goes jogging as often as she can to deal with her frustrations. As head of the Government's national HIV-Aids directorate, she has plenty of frustrations to vent on the pavements around her home in Midrand, Gauteng. This article provides a profile of this woman's determination to fight the HIV epidemic in her South African homeland.

WHO and Top Publishers Announce Breakthrough on Developing Countries' Access to Leading Biomedical Journals

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