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Volume 2, Number 6
11 February 2002
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH LAW AND POLICY
Indian
Supreme Court Orders Seizure of Ultrasound Equipment
Reproductive Health and Rights in Lithuania: Developing Effective Laws and Policies
Chile Supreme Court Allows Use of Key EC Ingredient
Kenya: Lack of HIV/AIDS Laws Blamed for Spread
South Africa: Nevirapine Tops Napwa's Congress Agenda
South Africa: Council of Churches Calls on Government to Change HIV/AIDS Policy
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
Use
of Proteomic Patterns in Serum to Identify Ovarian
Cancer 
Related news article: New Test Might
Spot Ovarian Cancer Early: Study
Efficacy and Side Effects of Norplant Use in Thai Women Above the Age of 35 Years (abstract)
Temporary Discontinuation: A Compliance Issue in Injectable Users
Failure to Detect Human Papillomavirus DNA in Malignant Epithelial Neoplasms of Conjunctiva by Polymerase Chain Reaction
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH NEWS
St. John's Wort Responsible for Oral Contraceptive Failures
Nigeria: Dilemma Over Efficacy of Condoms
Women Should Avoid Third-Generation Pill -- Study
Brain Disorders More Common in IVF Children
Physicians
May Not Be Fully Aware of Endometriosis Symptoms,
Severity, Treatment Options
South
Africa: Herpes: The Silent Epidemic
Cervical
Cancer: Fighting a Leading Killer in the Americas
HIV / AIDS RESEARCH
HIV-AIDS Spreads Along Drug Routes,
Report Says
(report information and link available in the "Special
Reports" section of The Pop Reporter®)
Cryptosporidium
muris Infection in an HIV-Infected Adult, Kenya
HIV / AIDS NEWS
Uganda:
New Aids Vaccine Trials For Next Year
Mandela
Enters the Fray Over AIDS
Health
Worker Crisis Undermines HIV/AIDS Efforts in Africa
Virgin
Myth Worries ANC Committee
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH
Outcomes of Planned Home Births Versus
Planned Hospital Births After Regulation of Midwifery
In British Columbia
Related news article: Home and Hospital
Births Equally Safe, Study Shows
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NEWS
250,000
Under-Fives in Ethiopia Have HIV/AIDS
Chile:
Child Mortality, Malnutrition Rates Down, Government
Says
Vaccines:
GAVI Says its Approach Could Save 2 Million Lives
by 2007
Kenya:
Immunization Drops 20 Percent, Says KPA
MEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH
Partnering:
A New Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health
Involving
Males in Preventing Teen Pregnancy: A Guide for Program
Planners
MEN'S HEALTH NEWS
Prostate Herbals Contain Prescription
Drugs: FDA
Opinion:
Men and HIV/AIDS Pandemic
POPULATION RESEARCH
Financial
Resource Flows for Population Activities in 1999
POPULATION NEWS
Pakistan:
Population Explosion Blamed for Stagnation
Hong Kong's Population Amounts to 6.76 Million
WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH
Can Technology Expedite the Cervical Cancer Screening Process? A Hong Kong Experience Using the AutoPap Primary Screening System with Location-Guided Screening Capability
Quality-of-Life
and Depressive Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women After
Receiving Hormone Therapy
WOMEN'S HEALTH NEWS
Tradition
That Is the Bane of Women in Rural Nigeria
YOUTH RESEARCH
Sexual
Activity and Substance Use Among American Youth
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related to this report)
YOUTH NEWS
Youths
to Help Combat HIV/Aids
Survey Says Teens Mix Risky Sex with
Alcohol, Drugs
Voices
of Adolescents and Youth: Gender Equity, HIV/AIDS
and Football in Vietnam
Niger:
Country has Highest Rate of Early Marriage in Region,
UNICEF Says
Liberia:
YMCA Executive Against Early Sex
BOOKS / BOOK REVIEWS
Free
Copies of Contraception Handbook Available
PROFILES / SPECIAL REPORTS
Emergency
Contraception: A Listing of References. January 1999-
January 2002
Document in Word
95 format.
Quantity
or Quality: Does Nepal Need More Clinics or Better
Services?
Film, book or play? Community-based HIV prevention in rural Uganda
Population Database
Select from multiple variables including population
density, percent urban and rural, for regions and
countries all over the world.
Revisiting
'The Hidden Epidemic': A Situation Assessment of Drug
Use in Asia in the context of HIV/AIDS
Revisiting 'The Hidden Epidemic' is a comprehensive
regional situation assessment of drug use and HIV/AIDS
in Asia covering more than 20 countries. Each country
profile includes the current drug using situation,
drug taking practices and risk behaviors, prevalence
of drug use and HIV/AIDS, government responses to
illicit drug problems and to drug use in the context
of HIV/AIDS. This report is the world's most up-to-date
and comprehensive overview of drug use and HIV/AIDS
in Asia.
Mobile
Populations and HIV Vulnerability: Inventory of Organizations
This inventory presents an overview of organizations
working with HIV vulnerability among mobile populations
in South East Asia and elsewhere.
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