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The Pop Reporter®

Volume 1, Number 37
17 December 2001

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FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH LAW AND POLICY

Cost Effectiveness of HIV Counseling for Sex Workers

HIV/AIDS: Court Rules South Africa Must Provide Drug to Expectant Mothers

Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Support - Report

International Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Planning for Success

Fighting HIV/AIDS: Is Success Possible?

Brazil Wants to See Condoms in Explicit Sex Scenes

FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH NEWS

Two HPV Vaccines to Prevent Cervical Cancer, Genital Warts Will Soon Move Into Final Clinical Trials

Uganda: Five Million Condoms for Christmas

HIV / AIDS RESEARCH

Stigma, HIV/AIDS and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission: A Pilot Study in Zambia, India, Ukraine and Burkina Faso

Community-based Treatment of Advanced HIV disease: Introducing DOT-HAART (Directly Observed Therapy with Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy)

Trichomonas vaginalis, HIV, and African-Americans

Identification of Dynamically Distinct Subpopulations of T Lymphocytes That Are Differentially Affected by HIV
Related News Article: Studies May Explain T Cell Loss in HIV

Malaria Drug Could Block Mother-Child HIV Spread

Is Drinking Water in Abidjan, Cäte d'Ivoire, Safe for Infant Formula?

Needle Exchange Programs for the Prevention of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Epidemiology and Policy

HIV / AIDS NEWS

Asia's First Global HIV/Aids Forum Opens in Thailand

Weapon Against HIV/AIDS in Short Supply

One Million AIDS Orphans in Ethiopia

HIV/AIDS: 12th African Conference Hears Demands For Treatment

Ivory Coast's Prostitutes Learn to Live with AIDS

In God We Trust! Nigeria's Sex Workers Believe God Can Protect Them From AIDS

HIV/AIDS: Women At Burkina Faso Conference Lash Out At African Men

Africa Needs $5 Billion a Year to Fight AIDS

Discount Drugs Proving Effective In Africa, Experts Say

India: Firm Offers Cheap Drug for AIDS-Related Infections

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH

'Monumental' HIV/AIDS Study in Botswana Will Use Two-Pronged Approach to Preventing Vertical Transmission

Effects of Iron Supplementation and Anthelmintic Treatment on Motor and Language Development of Preschool Children in Zanzibar: Double Blind, Placebo Controlled Study

Revised ACIP Recommendation for Avoiding Pregnancy After Receiving a Rubella-Containing Vaccine

Quality of Registration of Maternal Deaths in Mozambique: A Community-based Study in Rural and Urban Areas

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NEWS

Pakistan: One in 11 Children Dies Before First Birthday

Flying Deemed Safe for Women 9 Months Pregnant: Exercise Guidelines Also Updated

MEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH

Domestic Violence and the Male Victim

MEN'S HEALTH NEWS

South Africa: Traditional Leaders Want to Oversee Male Circumcision

POPULATION RESEARCH

World Population Monitoring 2001: Population, Environment, and Development

World's 65+ Population Triples

POPULATION NEWS

Ghana's Population: The Future is Here!

NICARAGUA: Growing Population, Pollution Affecting Water Sources

WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH

Health-seeking Behavior of Karachi Women with Reproductive Tract Infections

WOMEN'S HEALTH NEWS

Putting an End to Female Genital Cutting in Guinea

Genital Mutilation: WHO Official Blasts Practice at Ghana Meeting

140 Million FGM Victims Globally

YOUTH RESEARCH

Young People Dying of Embarrassment - HIV Report

Young Filipinos Not Practicing Safe Sex, Study Shows

Adolescents in China

Tailoring Clinical Management Practices to Meet the Special Needs of Adolescents: Sexually Transmitted Infections

YOUTH NEWS

UN Urges an End to Sexual Exploitation of Children

Kenya: NGO Takes Anti-FGM War to Schools

Uganda: Doctor Decries High STD Teenage Infections

Cambodian 'Condom Cafe' Offers Free Condoms and Sex Education

Kenya: HIV/Aids Group Suggests Worrying Attitudes Among Youth

PROFILES / SPECIAL REPORTS:

Legal Guides for Service Providers Who Work With Women Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

Profiting from Abuse: An Investigation Into the Sexual Exploitation of Our Children
Commercial sexual exploitation of children and trafficking are two elements of the more pervasive problem of sexual abuse. This report details the scope and toll of the problem and includes testimonials from abused and exploited women and children.

Related press release available at:
http://www.unicef.org/newsline/01pr97.htm
UNICEF: Second World Congress Against Commercial Exploitation of Children http://www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/

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