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The Pop Reporter®

Volume 1, Number 3
23 April 2001

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REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Oral Contraceptives Cut Bowel Cancer Risk

Chlamydia Screening Urged for Young Women

HPV Strain Linked to Increased Mortality From Cervical Cancer

HIV / AIDS

Drugs' Giants Drop Case Against South Africa

As One Battle Ends, Another Begins For South Africa

UN Official: Dual Approach Needed to Defeat AIDS

Blindness Threatens Developing World's HIV Patients

POPULATION

Pakistan Government Aims to Reduce Population Growth

Would Girls' Schools Help Reduce Fertility in Pakistan?

WOMEN'S HEALTH

Indian Women's Maternal Death Rate 'Like 300 Airplane Crashes'

Genital Mutilation: Tanzanians Threaten to Resume Practice

Women's Groups, Health Officials Try to Dispel South Korean 'Myth' that Caesareans are Safer than Vaginal Deliveries

PROFILES / SPECIAL REPORTS

A compilation of statistics, links, stories of successes and struggles in the fight against HIV in Africa.

No longer a cowshed for childbirth: Participatory approaches for improving women's reproductive health in Nepal.

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