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The Pop Reporter®

Volume 1, Number 19
13 August 2001

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FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH POLICY

Effect of Removing User Fees on Attendance for Curative and Preventive Primary Health Care Services in Rural South Africa

SOUTH AFRICA: Schools Throw Out Pregnant Teens

FAMILY PLANNING/REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Emotional and Sexual Side Effects Cause Women to Stop Using Oral Contraceptives

Estrogen Treatment Does Not Increase Asthma Risk

Alliance To Promote Injectable Contraceptives in Developing World

Fertility Specialists Stressing That Medical Treatments Cannot Replace Biology, Newsweek Reports

HIV-Positive Men Can Father Children Through IVF

HIV/AIDS

Researchers Endorse HAART Regimen Adapted for Developing Nations, Rural Settings

Scientists Shed Light on Molecule That Fights HIV

Kenya: One-Hour AIDS Testing Centre Opens in City

Nelfinavir, Efavirenz, or Both after the Failure of Nucleoside Treatment of HIV Infection

Ghana: Condom Sales Rise As Campaign Establishes Itself

Health Program Cuts HIV Risk for African Prostitutes

Ethiopia Reaches Deal with Firms to Import Cheap Drugs

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH

Preeclampisa and Eclampsia, While Often Preventable, Are Among Top Causes of Pregnancy-Related Deaths

Ecological Study of Effect of Breastfeeding on Infant Mortality in Latin America

Placenta May Predict Risk of Low Birth Weight

Smoking May Be Risk Factor for Infant Colic

Simultaneous Zinc and Vitamin A Supplementation in Bangladeshi Children: Randomised Double Blind Controlled Trial

MEN'S HEALTH

UNAIDS Report Urges Prevention Focus on Young Men

First World Congress on Men's Health

POPULATION

Refugee Population on the Rise

WOMEN'S HEALTH

Senegal to Present Women's Rights Record Before the United Nations

Venezuela: Understanding the Connections between Gender-Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health

TURKEY: Honor Killings Exposed as Population Moves to Cities

MP Claims Nurses Performing Female Genital Mutilation

TANZANIA: Attacks On Women Frequent Among Refugees, Says NGO

YOUTH

Mothers Who Discuss Condom Usage, AIDS With Their Children Often Have Greater Knowledge of the Subjects

Parents Fumble Over 'Birds and Bees' Talk to Teens

Early Puberty in Caucasian Girls May Be Linked to Obesity, Study Says

Boyfriends Key in Whether American Teenage Girls Want a Baby

LoveLife Uses Basketball to Coach HIV Prevention Among South African Teens

ETHIOPIA: Teens Pay The Deadly Price Of Religious Taboo

Child Trends Releases Report on Teen Birth Data for Every State in U.S., Comparative Rates Worldwide

"You're Too Young for Sex"
Clinics in Soweto are failing to help youths seeking sexual advice and treatment.

Rapid Saliva HIV Tests Preferred Among Youth

QUALITY OF CARE

Monitoring Quality of Care in Family Planning Programs: A Comparison of Observations and Client Exit Interviews

Comparative Efficiency of National Health Systems: Cross National Econometric Analysis

PROFILES/SPECIAL REPORTS

Prevention of Trafficking and Care and Support of Trafficked Persons: In the Context of an Emerging HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Nepal
This lengthy report provides a policy analysis, documentation of current intervention models, and community-based studies of trafficking of women in Nepal. In addition to assessing the vulnerability to girls and women in Nepal to trafficking, it places the problem in the context of the emerging HIV epidemic in the country. The report ends with recommendations to strengthen the interventions to prevent trafficking, providing care and support to trafficked women, as well as proposing further research and evaluation of the problem.

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