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Volume 2, Number 4
28 January 2002
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH LAW AND POLICY
Reducing
Heterosexual Transmission of HIV in Poor Countries
Editorial:
Governments as Facilitators or Obstacles in the HIV
Epidemic
South
Africa: KwaZulu-Natal to Provide Nevirapine Despite
Federal Policy
Pentagon
May Require Pregnancy Tests for Military Women Before
Receiving Anthrax Vaccine
Editorial:
U.S. Supreme Court Decision Ignores Men's Rights
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
Transdermal Contraception: Evaluation
of Three Transdermal Norelgestromin/ethinyl Estradiol
Doses in a Randomized, Multicenter, Dose-response
Study
Different Effects of Oral Contraceptives
Containing Levonorgestrel or Desogestrel on Plasma
Lipoproteins and Coagulation Factor VII
Letters to the Editor: Timing of
Emergency Contraception
Editor's reply
Opinion:
Preimplantation Sex Selection for Family Balancing
in India
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH NEWS
New
Saliva-Based Home Ovulation Test Approved in United
States
Senegal:
Imams Back UNFPA Reproductive Health Efforts
New
Contraceptive Gel May Also Protect Against STDs
HIV / AIDS RESEARCH
First
Trial of the HIV-1 Vaccine in Africa: Ugandan Experience
Trichomonas
vaginalis, HIV, and African-Americans
Related News Article: Sexually Transmitted
Disease May Pave Way for HIV Infection
HIV
Positive Women Have Increased Risk of Genital Cancer
HIV / AIDS NEWS
Editorial:
How Men's Power Over Women Fuels the HIV Epidemic
Mining
Executive Expected to be Named to Global Fund Board
Letter
to the Editor: President Mbeki Might Have a Case on
Rethinking AIDS
HIV
Soccer Campaign Kicks off in Africa
Radio Soaps Help Africans Avoid the Drama of AIDS
Haiti: AIDS Battle at an Impasse
Scientist
Accuses Government Agencies of Competing, Conducting
Duplicative AIDS Vaccine Research
Death Toll Set to Overtake Black Death, Expert Says
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH
What Can We Do to Reduce Mother to Child Transmission of HIV?
Role of Traditional Birth Attendants in Preventing Perinatal Transmission of HIV
Trends in Caesarean Section Rates at a Maternity Hospital in Mumbai, India
Adverse Perinatal Outcomes are Significantly
Higher in Severe Gestational Hypertension than in
Mild Preeclampsia
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NEWS
Most Moms-to-be Who Use Drugs Don't Disclose It
MEN'S HEALTH NEWS
Vasectomy Operation Cuts the Knife
Out of 'the Snip'
The
Selective Brutalization of Men in Afghanistan
POPULATION NEWS
Argentina's Economic Crisis May Affect Migration Trends
UNFPA, China Strengthens Cooperation in Population
WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH
Family History of Cancer, Oral Contraceptive Use, and Ovarian Cancer Risk
Determinants of Health and Nutritional Status of Rural Nigerian Women
WOMEN'S HEALTH NEWS
Focus on Female Genital Mutilation
FGM:
Senegal Launches Prevention Campaign
China:
10,000 Women Forced Into Sex Trade Annually, Rights
Group Says
YOUTH NEWS
China: College Students Surveyed
on Sex Views
Protocol
Against Sexual Trafficking Enters Into Force
China: Adolescent Sex Readers Published
Editorial:
Mass Orphanhood in the Era of HIV/AIDS
BOOKS / BOOK REVIEWS
"The
Fiscal Challenge of an Aging Industrial World"
"Medical
Industry Directory of Associations and Organizations"
This directory includes contact information on medical
associations and business development organizations
in 110 countries in over 100 keyindustry sectors.
Review:
"Perspectives on Health Inequity"
Review: "Rethinking Health Promotion:
A Global Approach"
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PROFILES / SPECIAL REPORTS
The
EC/UNFPA Initiative for Reproductive Health in Asia:
Annual Report 2001 
Human
Rights Watch World Report 2002: Women's Human Rights
"... The international women's rights community
moved forward, pressing to protect women's bodily
integrity and right to sexual
autonomy, to examine the ways that race or ethnicity
and gender intersect to deny women human rights, and
to protect women from gender-specific violations of
the laws of war..."
Contents include:
Human Rights Developments, Women's Status In The Family,
Labor Rights, Trafficking, Women in Conflict and Refugees,
Violence Against Women, The Role of the International
Community, United Nations, Unites States, European
Union, Council of Europe, and Relevant Human Rights
Watch Reports.
Maternal
& Neonatal Health Program Update - January 2002
- Antenatal Care Training Package Developed in Tanzania
- Midwifery Advocacy and Leadership Workshop Held in Ghana
- The Regional Expert Development Initiative: A Strategy to Reduce Maternal and Neonatal Mortality
"Population
Today" January 2002
Contents: Human Trafficking Exposed, Jobs Needed for
a Billion-Plus Youth, Premarital HIV Testing for Muslims
in Malaysia, Guatemala Introduces Reproductive Health
Law, "Banning Condoms Kills"
Caring
for People With HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean
Having witnessed some 60,000 new HIV infections and
30,000 AIDS-related deaths in 2001, the Caribbean
is shaking itself awake to the need for prevention,
care, and treatment programs for the estimated 420,000
people or 2 percent of the population with HIV/AIDS.
Trilingual
Thesaurus of Selected Demographic Terms
National (U.S.) Paternity Fraud Statistics
This Annual Report Summary for 1999, prepared
by the American Association of Blood Banks Parentage
Testing Standards Program Unit, indicates that the
overall exclusion rate for 1999 was 28.2% for accredited
laboratories. Exclusion rates for non-accredited U.S.
and foreign labs were slightly less at 22.7% and 20.6%
respectively.
International
Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
Health Links
"INASP Health Links" is a new Gateway to
selected Web sites of special interest to health professionals,
medical library communities, publishers, and NGOs
in developing and transitional countries.
INEQUALITIES IN KNOWLEDGE OF HIV/AIDS PREVENTION
An
Overview of Socio-Economic and Gender Differentials
in Developing Countries
"Initial Discussion Draft / Not for Quotation
or Citation / Comments and Suggestions Welcome"
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