30 July 2001, PopReporter

Tested To Their Limit: Sexual Harassment in Schools and Educational Institutions in Kenya
Women striving for higher education are tested to their limit by the hostile social and economic environments that define student life. "The attitudes of male students are disturbing," says Arthur Okwemba, a recent graduate of Egerton University, Njoro, about 200 km from Nairobi. "The prevailing attitude is that a woman is at best a parasite on the financial resources of a man and that she should at least show her appreciation by giving sexual favors," he says. At male students' hostels, while gathering information on sexual harassment at the Universities of Egerton, Kenyatta (in Nairobi) and Maseno, he encountered lewd graffiti and picture pin-ups of naked women on the walls. This report details the difficulties women in Kenya encounter in the educational system.

Hopkins Report: New Informed Choice Strategy for Developing Countries Guides People to Better Family Planning Decisions
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are calling for a new, broader strategy to help people make well-informed choices about family planning and protection against HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The new strategy urges efforts in five areas: government policies, communication programs, access to contraception, family planning program leadership and management, and counseling. The proposal, addressed to policy-makers and health care providers working in and for developing countries, appears in the latest issue of Population Reports®.
The full-text report can be found at http://www.populationreports.org/j50edsum.shtml.

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: The INFO Project

Volume 1, Number 17 30 July 2001

FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH POLICY

FAMILY PLANNING/REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

HIV/AIDS

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH

POPULATION

WOMEN'S HEALTH

YOUTH

PROFILES/SPECIAL REPORTS

Volume 1, Number 17
30 July 2001