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The Pop Reporter®

Volume 1, Number 22
4 September 2001

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FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH POLICY

Discrimination Against People With HIV/AIDS

FAMILY PLANNING/REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH

Oral Contraceptive May Reduce Premenstrual Symptoms

Thai Men Who Patronize Prostitutes Place Their Wives at Risk of HPV-Associated Cervical Cancer

HIV-Positive Women Can Safely Use IUDs, Study Shows

Eradicating Chancroid

Developing Countries See Increase in Birth Defects As More Women Use Misoprostol in Effort to End Pregnancies

FAMILY PLANNING/REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

IUDs May Be Safe for HIV-Positive Women

Trust In Partner Plays Role in Birth Control Use

US: Employers Should Target STD Prevention, Screening and Early Treatment in the Workplace

HIV/AIDS

Vaginal Microbicides May Help Prevent Heterosexual HIV Transmission

Privacy Worry May Keep HIV Patients From Therapy

Text: NIH Announces Conference on Disease and Stigma

Researchers Say Drug-Resistant HIV on the Rise

Most HIV-Positive Ugandan Mothers Prefer to Breastfeed Than Use Formula

Drug firm is to supply AIDS drug free in South Africa

Single Copy of Mutation Tied to Reduced HIV Risk

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH

Oxytocin More Effective Than Misoprostol in Managing Blood Loss After Childbirth

The Etiology of Maternal Mortality in Developing Countries: What Do Verbal Autopsies Tell Us?

In Kenya, the Risk of Poor Birth Outcomes Is Highest for a Woman's First Child

Ginkgo Biloba Compound May Affect Fetus

Fetuses May Be Able to Feel Pain at 20 Weeks; Study Results Have Implications for Treating Premature Infants

MEN'S HEALTH

Soy and Vitamin E Recommended to Help Prevent Prostate Cancer

POPULATION

Population Numbers Are Predicted to Fall, but the Number of Elderly Will Still Increase

South Africa: Black Population Grows Fastest

Birth Rates Among Children of Immigrants Decline, Study Finds

WOMEN'S HEALTH

Hormone Therapy, Breast Cancer Link Disputed

Rape Used to Lower Dowry Price in Refugee Camps

YOUTH

Teenage Pregnancy and Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes Associated with First and Second Births: Population Based Retrospective Cohort Study

Perceptions of Peer Behavior Predict Whether Peruvian Adolescents Have Had Sex

Date Violence Common for Both Boys, Girls

PROFILES/SPECIAL REPORTS

New Report on HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific Region - 2001
WHO/SEARO and WHO/WPRO have just produced a joint report on HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. This report provides the latest account of the HIV/AIDS situation in the region including the trends, the vulnerability, the natural history, the programmatic implications, as well as brief reports on each country-specific status.

Advocacy Guide for HIV/AIDS
This guide compiled by the International Planned Parenthood Federation provides information on the purpose of HIV/AIDS advocacy, advocating for different groups of people that are at higher risk of contracting HIV, promoting male and female condoms, as well as HIV in the workplace. Examples of best practices are included in the report, as are useful publications and internet resources.

Measuring a city's impact zone
"The first sweetened cup of hot tea to be drunk by an English worker was a significant historical event, because it prefigured the transformation of an entire society, a total remaking of its economic and social basis." A look at population and consumption.

Full Access to Online Journals and Databases in Africa

The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) is pleased to announce the completion of the first phase of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI). This is an important programme aimed at the wider access and dissemination of scientific and scholarly information and knowledge with and between developing and transitional countries.

Researchers, academics, scholars and librarians in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda are now invited to access current awareness databases, full-text online journals and document delivery for free.

To ensure efficient and effective implementation of the Programme, the country-wide access licenses will be extended in a staged manner. In the first instance, members of universities and research institutions in Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda can forward their names, affiliations and full contact details to INASP in exchange for full details about accessing the content. This offer will be extended to Malawi and Mozambique in the next month, and to a wider range of countries in Africa, Asia and Central America by the end of 2001. For more information, contact: Carol Priestley, Director, INASP Web site: http://www.inasp.org.uk/peri/

HIV/AIDS Portal for South Asia
The portal, which was launched last year as a South Asian HIV/AIDS platform, is now being relaunched with the addition of a series of new utilities, services, tools, databases, and a wide range of content on the entire spectrum of issues related to HIV/AIDS.

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