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Volume 2, Number 7
18 February 2002
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH LAW AND POLICY
India
Plans New Legislation to Prevent Sex Selection
HIV/AIDS:
Salvadoran Law Legalizes Testing for Job Applicants
UK:
Contraception Endangered by Legal Challenge to Emergency
Pill
Colin
Powell Departs from Bush Policy for Abstinence-Only
Education
New Ethics Guidelines for HIV Patients
HIV/AIDS:
Drastic Spending Hike Needed, Annan, Piot Tell U.S.
Senators
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
Triphasic
Oral Contraceptives: Review and Comparison of Various
Regimens
The
Acceptability of Reuse of the Female Condom Among
Urban South African Women
Untreated
Gonococcal and Chlamydial Infection in a Probability
Sample of Adults
HIV
Risk Environment for Ghanaian Women: Challenges to
Prevention
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH NEWS
Uganda:
Women 'Detest' Female Condoms
Editorial:
Unveiling the Hidden Epidemic of Sexually Transmitted
Diseases
Men
Redundant? Now We Don't Need Women Either
HIV / AIDS RESEARCH
Independent Effects of Reported Sexually
Transmitted Infections and Sexual Behavior on HIV-1
Prevalence Among Adult Women, Men, and Teenagers in
Rural Uganda
Clinical and Biological Evolution
of HIV-1 Seroconverters in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire,
1997-2000
Gender and Clinical Outcomes After
Starting Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment: A
Cohort Study
High Prevalence of HIV-1 and Hepatitis
C Virus Coinfection Among Injection Drug Users in
the Southeastern Region of Yunnan, China
Estimated Global Distribution and
Regional Spread of HIV-1 Genetic Subtypes in the Year
2000
Brief Report: Resistance to Antiretroviral
Treatment in Gabon: Need for Implementation of Guidelines
on Antiretroviral Therapy Use and HIV-1 Drug Resistance
Monitoring in Developing Countries
Decline in the Prevalence of HIV
and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Female Sex
Workers in Cotonou, Benin, 1993-1999
Prevalence
of HIV Among Truck Drivers Visiting Sex Workers in
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Reducing the Risk of Sexual HIV Transmission:
Quantifying the Per-Act Risk for HIV on the Basis
of Choice of Partner, Sex Act, and Condom Use
HIV / AIDS NEWS
"Sobering"
Levels of Drug-Resistant HIV Found
Burundi:
Government Concerned with AIDS Infection Rate in Rural
Areas
Former Rival AIDS Researchers Conduct
Vaccine Trials
FDA Approves HIV Drug in Once-a-day
Tablet
Majority
of Sex Workers in South African Gold Mining Community
are HIV Positive
WHO Starts Testing Program for HIV/AIDS
in Afghanistan
Official: AIDS in Russia Being Ignored
AIDS Village in South Africa Opens
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH
Pediatric
Forum: The Choice by HIV-Positive Women to Exclusively
Breastfeed Should Be Supported
Do All Hospitals Need Cesarean Delivery
Capability? An Outcomes Study of Maternity Care in
a Rural Hospital Without On-Site Cesarean Capability
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NEWS
Kenya:
Infant Mortality Rates Alarming, Says Ongeri
MEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH
Requests
for Vasectomy: Counselling and Consent
Meta-Analysis
of Measures of Sexual Activity and Prostate Cancer
Related News Article:
STDs May Play Role in Prostate Cancer
Development
MEN'S HEALTH NEWS
Why
Men in New Zealand Opt for Vasectomy
New
Delhi Government to Focus on Men for AIDS Testing
POPULATION RESEARCH
Effects
of the Productive Role of Bangladeshi Women on their
Reproductive Decisions 
POPULATION NEWS
China: Nation Sees Increase in Elderly
Life
Expectancy Reaching Lowest Levels Ever in Africa
Aging
Population Raises Concern
WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH
Female
Genital Cutting in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: Changing
Attitudes?
High
Incidence of Cervical Human Papillomavirus Infection
in Women During Their First Sexual Relationship
Related News Article:
Virus Often Contracted at First
Sexual Intercourse
Recent
Developments: Breast Cancer
Can Technology Expedite the Cervical Cancer Screening Process? A Hong Kong Experience Using the AutoPap Primary Screening System with Location-Guided Screening Capability
Supracervical
Hysterectomy Versus Total Abdominal Hysterectomy:
Perceived Effects on Sexual Function
WOMEN'S HEALTH NEWS
Circumcision:
Whose Right is Being Violated?
Medscape
Editorial: Innovative Approaches to Cervical Cancer
Prevention
Mexico:
Official Calls for U.N. Help to Combat Violence Against
Women
YOUTH RESEARCH
West
African Youth Initiative: Outcome of a Reproductive
Health Education Program
Reproductive
Health Risk and Protective Factors Among Youth in
Lusaka, Zambia
Clinical
Manifestations of HIV-1 Infection in Children: A Review
YOUTH NEWS
BOOKS / BOOK REVIEWS
Beyond
Six Billion: Forecasting the World's Population
PROFILES / SPECIAL REPORTS:
Directory
of Hormonal Contraceptives
Would you like to know if you can find injectable
contraceptives in Greece or implants in India? The
answer can be found in the first searchable, worldwide,
on-line database of hormonal contraceptives -- available
now. (Note: You must register with the database in
order to use it, registration is free.)
Interview
With Thai Family Planning Legend, Mechai Viravaidya
A
Pocket Guide to Managing Contraception
The authors of Managing Contraception developed a
convenient pocket guide (3.5" x 5.5") for
health care providers and medical students, available
online. Those who wish to download chapters, diagrams,
photos and more may have the ability to do so at no
charge.
Editorial:
BMJ journals free to the developing world
The Second World
Assemby on Ageing
The Second World Assembly on Ageing will be held in
Madrid, Spain from 8 to 12 April 2002. This Second
Assembly will look at the progress gained since the
First Assembly in 1982 and will revise the International
Plan of Action on Ageing with a view towards addressing
priorities for future action. For more information,
visit the official website to find reports of the
preparatory process and regional meetings, press releases
and other documents prepared for this event. This
website is available in Arabic, Chinese, English,
French, Russian and Spanish.
Maternal
Mortality Update 1998-1999
An overview of the state of maternal mortality in
the world, including lessons learned from successful
programs in low income countries, realizing safe motherhood,
and monitoring progress with process indicators
E-mail Discussion: "Young Women and HIV/AIDS"
18 February 2002 through 8 March 2002
The Association for Women's Rights in Development and
the United Nations Women's Development Fund will be
co-hosting a 3-week e-mail discussion on YOUNG WOMEN
AND HIV/AIDS. For information on how to subscribe
to the YWL list, please e-mail: ywl@awid.org
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