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The Pop Reporter®

Volume 1, Number 29
22 October 2001

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FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH LAW AND POLICY

Fact Sheet: U.S. Leads APEC Efforts to Combat Infectious Disease

China Reaffirms Restrictions on Unsupervised Mifepristone Use

French High Court's Landmark Ruling on 'Right to Die' of Unborn Fetus Fuels Bioethical 'Uproar'

US: Republicans Threaten Filibuster on Foreign Aid Bill in Effort to Hasten Hearings on 'Conservative' Judicial Nominees

New German Law to Boost Rights for Prostitutes

Man Indicted for Assault, Reckless Endangerment for Allegedly Giving Ex-Wife HIV

FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH

Implications for Evaluating the Impact of Family Planning Programs with a Reproductive Health Orientation

Disobedient Distributors: Street-level Bureaucrats and Would-be Patrons in Community-based Family Planning Programs in Rural Kenya

Prospects for Safer Sex Practice Amongst Commercial Sex Workers at Oil Locations in Nigeria: Can the Vaginal Microbicides Oil the Workplace-based AIDS Education?

Association of Hormonal Contraception and High-risk Behaviors Among Women with HIV

FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH NEWS

Contraceptive Shortages Loom in Less Developed Countries

Couples in Thailand Postpone Having Babies

Gambia Family Planning Association Establishes Multimedia Unit

Ghana: President Markets Family Planning

AOL to Post Public Health Messages About Syphilis, Other STDs in Some Chat Rooms

HIV / AIDS RESEARCH

Conducting an HIV Vaccine Efficacy Trial in Thailand: Lessons Learned and Experience Gained

HIV Highly Contagious Before Symptoms Show: Study

TB Relapse More Common With HIV Coinfection

HIV / AIDS NEWS

China Mulls First Public Appearance of HIV Patient

Thailand to Make "Most" Antiretrovirals by Year's End

HIV Vaccine Efforts Inch Forward

AIDS is Number One Killer in South Africa Says Report

South Africa: Presidential Advisor Rejects MRC Released HIV/AIDS Report

South African Baby with HIV Sues Government for Negligence

Kenya: Cost of Anti-Retroviral Drugs to Drop Tenfold

Sex is Being Abused, Says Mubanga

Do Patents for Antiretroviral Drugs Constrain Access to AIDS Treatment in Africa?

A National AIDS Plan for Malawi

About Half of Teachers Trained Annually in Zambia Die of AIDS-Related Complications

Combination Use of Viagra, Illegal Drugs Among Gay Men May Lead to Increase in Unprotected Sex, HIV Transmission

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH

Validity of Women's Self-reported Obstetric Complications in Rural Ghana

Consistency Between Survey and Interview Data Concerning Pregnancy Wantedness in the Philippines

Rate of Caesarean Section as a Process Indicator of Safe-motherhood Programmes: The Case of Kenya

Hormonal Pregnancy Tests in Sub-Saharan Africa

Improving Surveillance for Maternal and Perinatal Health in 2 Districts of Rural Tanzania

African Women Not Getting Needed C-Sections: Study

Vaginal Instrumental Delivery Safer During Obstructed Labor than Caesarean Section, Study Says

Smoking During Pregnancy Linked to Mental Illness

Resistance Mutations Fade From Detection After Nevirapine Prophylaxis

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NEWS

African Countries Asked to Focus on Reproductive Health to Reduce Maternal Mortality

MEN'S HEALTH NEWS

Debate Over Male Circumcision and HIV Prompts More Research

Around the Globe, Women Outlive Men

POPULATION NEWS

Pondering the Prospects for Lower Fertility in High-Fertility Countries

WOMEN'S HEALTH NEWS

Abandoning Female Genital Cutting: Prevalence, Attitudes, and Efforts to End the Practice

More Cervical Cancer Screening Needed in Developing Countries

YOUTH RESEARCH

Sexual Initiation: Predictors and Developmental Trends

Impact of an Integrated Adolescent Reproductive Health Program in Brazil

Sex-Ed Should Target Elementary School Kids: Study

YOUTH NEWS

IPPF/WHR Promotes Sexual and Reproductive Health Through Technology

New HIV Web Site for Young People

PROFILES / SPECIAL REPORTS

Timeline, Books Mark 50th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Birth Control Pill

Improving Access to Quality Care in Family Planning Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, Second Edition, WHO
This document provides recommendations for appropriate medical eligibility criteria based on the latest clinical and epidemiological data and is intended to be used by policy-makers, family planning programme managers and the scientific community. It aims to provide guidance to national family planning/reproductive health programmes in the preparation of guidelines for service delivery of contraceptives. It should not be seen or used as the actual guidelines but rather as a reference.

Economist Profiles Current Research Underway to Develop Male Contraceptives

Safe Motherhood Needs Assessment Web Site

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