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Volume 5, Number 50
12 December 2005
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FAMILY PLANNING/REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
Family transition in South Asia: provision of social services and social protection 
(Research Article; Asia)
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Asia-Pacific Population Journal. 2005 Aug;20(2):13-46.
De Silva WI
The author argues that, based on existing policy, projects programs and specific plans of action should be formulated to reduce the gravity of problems that is arising in South Asian countries in relation to the dynamics of family change.
Evidence-based reproductive health care in Cameroon: population-based study of awareness, use and barriers
(Research Article; Sub-Saharan Africa)
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2005;83(12):895-903.
Tita ATN | Selwyn BJ | Waller DK | Kapadia AS | Dongmo S
This population-based, descriptive study found that the awareness and practice of important evidence-based reproductive health interventions were less than optimal.
Aetiology of sexually transmitted infections and response to syndromic treatment in southwest Uganda
(Abstract; subscription needed for full text; Sub-Saharan Africa)
Sexually Transmitted Infections. 2005;81(6):488-493.
Pickering JM | Whitworth JAG | Hughes P | Kasse M | Morgan D | Mayanja B | Van der Paal L | Mayaud P
This longitudinal, prospective study used laboratory testing and questionnaires to evaluate 561 adult men and women presenting with clinically verified genital ulcers, urethral, or vaginal discharge in rural south western Uganda. One third of patients had genital ulcers and two thirds discharges. There was good response to treatment in 461/508 patients (90.7%). Herpes simplex virus type 2 was found in 95/217 (43.8%) genital ulcers. In 24.1% of ulcer cases there was also a genital discharge. HIV seropositivity was high in ulcer cases (63.2%), with significantly more HSV2 and secondary bacterial infection than in seronegative cases.
A comparative analysis of communication about sex, health and sexual health in India and South Africa: Implications for HIV prevention
(Abstract; subscription needed for full text; Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa)
Culture, Health & Sexuality. 2005 Nov 1;7(6):527-541.
Lambert H | Wood K
This paper provides a comparative analysis of modes of dialogue, non-verbal communication, and embodied action relating to sex and health in two contrasting countries—India and South Africa—which have the world's two most heavily HIV-affected populations. The paper considers: first, how and by whom sex is and is not talked about, in public discourse and private conversation; second, how sexual intention and desire are communicated through indirect, non-verbal means in everyday life; and third, how references to sexuality and the sexual body re-enter within a more explicit set of indigenous discourses about health (rather than ‘sexual health’ per se), such as semen loss in India and womb ‘dirtiness’ in South Africa.
FAMILY PLANNING/REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH NEWS
Muslim women protest against installation of condom vending machines in Chennai
(News Article; Asia)
12 Dec 2005
newKerala.com
Plans to install 500 condom vending machines in Tamil Nadu, one of the country's worst HIV/AIDS-affected states has run into rough weather as protesters, mainly women, took to the streets shouting slogans and carrying banners against ‘condom culture' on Monday.
Committee urges condom ads must on prime time TV
(News Article; Asia)
12 Dec 2005
Televisionpoint.com
The Information & Broadcasting Ministry in India should make telecast of condom advertisements mandatory during prime time by all television channels, a public accounts committee has said.
Reproductive health incorporated into school curriculum
(News Article; Sub-Saharan Africa)
11 Dec 2005
Zambia News Agency
The ministry of education in Zambia has incorporated reproductive health and HIV/AIDS subjects into the school curriculum. Education Minister Brian Chituwo says the move underscores government’s determination to equip pupils with knowledge necessary for making informed decisions that will help them avoid behaviour that endangers their health and school career.
FAMILY PLANNING/REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH LAW AND POLICY
Why is funding for population activities declining?
(Commentary; Global)
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Asia-Pacific Population Journal. 2005 Aug;20(2):3-9.
Sinding SW
The author argues that only by putting women and their reproductive freedom at the center of development will we see true progress in alleviating the plight of poverty and win back donor support.
Shouldn't men have 'choice' too?
(Commentary; Global)
10 Dec 2005
The Los Angeles Times
This commentary in The Los Angeles Times proposes a novel and radical stance in the area of reproductive rights: men should have choice, too.
A war chest for fighting HIV/AIDS
(Feature Article; Global)
Finance & Development. 2005 Dec;42(4)
Lewis M
The AIDS pandemic's devastation has spurred an overwhelming response from the international community, and after years of limited funding, donors are rapidly making up for past shortfalls, writes Maureen Lewis, a Senior Fellow at the Washington-based Center for Global Development. The question is how well and how fast low-income countries can respond to the new, and possibly uncertain, flow of funds for a single, albeit devastating, disease. Weak institutions and fragile budgeting undermine absorption of funds. And the focus on strong and well-funded HIV/AIDS programs without requisite attention paid to the broader health delivery system is neither sustainable nor good policy.
Singapore informs spouses of HIV-positive partners
(News Article; Asia)
6 Dec 2005
Reuters
Singapore's Health Ministry has started informing spouses of HIV-positive patients directly about their partners' disease in order to curb the spread of AIDS.
Wife dumping radio ban
(News Article; Sub-Saharan Africa)
7 Dec 2005
Sky News
Songs that are perceived to encourage men to dump their wives have been banned from the airwaves in the Central African Republic.
HIV/AIDS RESEARCH
Viability and effectiveness of large-scale HIV treatment initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa: experience from western Kenya
(Abstract; subscription needed for full text; Sub-Saharan Africa)
AIDS. 2006 Jan 2;20(1):41-48.
Wools-Kaloustian K | Kimaiyo S | Diero L | Siika A | Sidle J | Yiannoutsos CT | Musick B | Einterz R | Fife KH | Tierney WM
This study in eight HIV clinics in western Kenya determined the clinical and immunological outcomes of a cohort of HIV-infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy. Median duration of follow-up after initiation of antiretroviral therapy was 40 weeks; 111 patients (5.4%) were documented as deceased, and 505 (24.5%) were lost to follow-up. Among 1766 (86%) evaluated for adherence to their antiretroviral regimen, 78% reported perfect adherence at every visit.
Changes in sexual behavior and risk of HIV transmission after antiretroviral therapy and prevention interventions in rural Uganda
(Abstract; subscription needed for full text; Sub-Saharan Africa)
AIDS. 2006 Jan 2;20(1):85-92.
Bunnell R | Ekwaru JP | Solberg P | Wamai N | Bikaako-Kajura W | Were W | Coutinho A | Liechty C | Madraa E | Rutherford G | Mermin J
This prospective cohort study was performed in rural Uganda to assess changes in risky sexual behavior and estimated HIV transmission from HIV-infected adults (n=926) after 6 months of antiretroviral therapy (ART). Six months after initiating ART, risky sexual behavior reduced by 70%. Over 85% of risky sexual acts occurred within married couples.
Risk of HIV/AIDS in China: subpopulations of special importance
(Abstract; subscription needed for full text; Asia)
Sexually Transmitted Infections. 2005;81(6):442-447.
Qian ZH | Vermund SH | Wang N
The authors review the magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the social characteristics and geographic distribution of at-risk groups in China based on published literature and unpublished official data.
Applying public health principles to the HIV epidemic
(Commentary; Global | North America)
The New England Journal of Medicine. 2005 Dec 1;353(22):2397-2402.
Frieden TR | Das-Douglas M | Kellerman SE | Henning KJ
Although HIV infection has killed more than half a million people in the United States, a comprehensive public health approach that has stopped other epidemics has not been used to address this one. In this article from The New England Journal of Medicine, the authors attempt to answer why.
Relation of sexual risks and prevention practices with individuals’ stigmatising beliefs towards HIV infected individuals: an exploratory study
(Abstract; subscription needed for full text; Asia)
Sexually Transmitted Infections. 2005;81(6):511-516.
Liu H | Li X | Stanton B | Fang X | Mao R | Chen X | Yang H
This cross sectional survey assessed HIV-related stigmatizing beliefs, risky sexual behaviors, and preventive practices among sexually experienced rural to urban migrants aged 18–30 years in 2002 in Beijing and Nanjing. Among 2,153 migrants, 7.2% reported having had more than one sexual partner in the previous month, 9.9% had commercial sex partners, and 12.5% had an episode of an STD. Only 18% reported frequently or always using condoms, with 20% sometimes or occasionally using them. Multiple logistic regression analysis found that individual’s stigmatizing beliefs towards people with HIV were positively associated with having had an episode of an STD, having multiple sex partners, or having had commercial sex partners, and were negatively associated with condom use and the willingness to accept an HIV test.
DatelineHealth-Africa daily report: ABUJA 2005 - 14th ICASA conference
(Unpublished Work; Sub-Saharan Africa)
DatelineHealth-Africa.net
This site contains exclusive up-to-date daily reports, news, and features of events and happenings at the 14th International Conference on AIDS/STIs in Africa that took place 4-9 December 2005 in Abuja, Nigeria.
HIV/AIDS NEWS
World Health Organization’s AIDS strategy a deadly failure, says think tank
(Press Release; Global)
8 Dec 2005
International Policy Network
The WHO's failure to hit its "3 by 5" target - a plan to put 3 million AIDS sufferers on life-extending antiretroviral treatment by the end of 2005- is the result of it placing too much emphasis on treatment, and not enough on prevention, according to the International Policy Network. As a result of this misprioritisation, new cases of AIDS are piling up faster than they can be treated. Encouraged by western activists and NGOs, the WHO has focused myopically on scaling up antiretroviral treatment for those already suffering from HIV/AIDS, while paying relatively little attention to preventing infections in the first place.
Mandela's ex-wife calls for abstinence to fight HIV/AIDS
(News Article; Global)
9 Dec 2005
Xinhua
Winnie Madikizela Mandela, the ex-wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, said that the only way to be free from the HIV/AIDS pandemic is abstinence. Mandela made this assertion during discussions on the theme of Current Thinking in HIV Control and Care at the ongoing 14th International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa in Nigeria's capital Abuja.
Evidence for HIV decline in Zimbabwe
(Press Release; Sub-Saharan Africa)
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7 Dec 2005
UNAIDS
A comprehensive review of epidemiological and behavioural
data released today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) concludes that HIV prevalence has fallen in Zimbabwe over the past 5 years, and that
HIV incidence has also declined.
Reacting to new cases, China bans blood sales
(News Article; Asia)
10 Dec 2005
International AIDS Society
China will ban sales of donated blood to stop the spread of HIV and other blood-borne diseases. The announcement follows recent news of multiple HIV infections from blood transfusions. An HIV-infected blood seller apparently infected at least 23 people who got his blood in northeastern Jilin province.
HIV kit giving errant results
(News Article; Global | North America)
10 Dec 2005
The Los Angeles Times
An oral HIV test that uses a swab to quickly detect the virus that causes AIDS provided false positive readings for about a quarter of the people it showed to be infected, the San Francisco Department of Public Health said.
Spread of AIDS threatens Russia's workforce
(Feature Article; Asia)
1 Dec 2005
Cox News Service News Service
Russia's AIDS epidemic is now the largest in all of Europe, according to the latest United Nations' AIDS agency figures. Without more intervention to halt the spread of HIV, Russia's gross national product will drop by 4% by the end of the decade, and by more than 10.5% by 2020, a World Bank study projected this year.
183 screenings and five cases of HIV detected
(News Article; Europe)
12 Dec 2005
Regiao Sul
The HIV screening campaign carried out in the Algarve within the scope of World AIDS Day resulted in 183 tests undertaken, from which five possible cases of infection were detected.
Better bananas, nicer mosquitoes
(Feature Article; Global)
6 Dec 2005
The New York Times
Addressing 275 of the world's most brilliant scientists, Bill Gates cracked a joke: "I've been applying my imagination to the synergies of this," he said. "We could have sorghum that cures latent tuberculosis. We could have mosquitoes that spread vitamin A. And most important, we could have bananas that never need to be kept cold." These deadly serious proposals - answers to the Grand Challenges in Global Health that Mr. Gates posed in a 2003 speech in Davos, Switzerland - sounded much like his spoofs: laboratories around the world, some of them led by Nobel Prize winners, proposing to invent bananas and sorghum that make their own vitamin A; chemicals that render mosquitoes unable to smell humans; drugs that hunt down tuberculosis germs in people who do not even know they are infected; and vaccines that are mixed into spores or plastics or sugars and can be delivered in glasses of orange juice or modified goose calls.
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH
Mortality among very low-birthweight infants in hospitals serving minority populations
(Abstract; subscription needed for full text; North America)
American Journal of Public Health. 2005 Dec;95(12):2206-2212.
Morales LS | Staiger D | Horbar JD | Carpenter J | Kenny M | Geppert J | Rogowski J
Related News Article: Neonatal mortality is higher in US hospitals with higher proportion of black babies
Researchers found that neonatal mortality was higher among black and white infants at hospitals where 35% of very low birthweight infants were black than at hospitals where less than 15% of very low birthweight infants were black.
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NEWS
Eight Yemeni mothers die every day
(News Article; Middle East)
11 Dec 2005
Yemen Times
The maternity mortality rate among Yemeni women is 366 women in every 100,000 live births.
MEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH
The relationship between males' attitudes to partner violence and use of contraceptive methods in Turkey
(Abstract; subscription needed for full text; Global | Europe)
The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care. 2005 Sep;10(3):199-206.
Akin L | Ozaydin N
Data collected from interviews of married women and their husbands for the 1998 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey and 1971 husbands were included in this study. The percentage of husbands who were "totally" against partner violence was 20.4%. Less than 1% of the men (22) had an "unfavorable" attitude toward the use of violence against their wives. The frequency of contraceptive use was increased from the group of men who had unfavorable attitudes towards violence to the group of men who had favorable attitudes. A similar trend was found in the percentages of condom use for men, with multiple factors influencing contraceptive use.
Core groups and the transmission of HIV: learning from male sex workers
(Abstract; subscription needed for full text; Europe)
Journal of Biosocial Science. Online access December 2, 2005.
Parker M
This paper draws upon ethnographic research documenting social and sexual networks in London and looks at the position of five male sex workers within a network comprising 193 men and seven women (as well as 1,378 anonymous sexual contacts and 780 commercial contacts). In so doing, it suggests that there is no evidence to show that male sex workers are more or less likely to acquire or transmit HIV in the course of commercial sex compared with other types of sexual relationships. In addition, men engaging in non-commercial sex all reported having unprotected sex in a variety of contexts and relationships and there is no evidence to suggest that men who are not sex workers play less of a role in the transmission of HIV. These data suggest that it would be inappropriate to conceptualize male sex workers as a core group.
POPULATION RESEARCH
Who is epidemiologically fathomable in the HIV/AIDS epidemic? Gender, sexuality, and intersectionality in public health
(Abstract; subscription needed for full text; Global)
Culture, Health & Sexuality. 2005 Nov 1;7(6):615-623.
Dworkin SL
This paper examines the shifting nature of contemporary epidemiological classifications in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It first looks at assumptions that guide a discourse of vulnerability and circulate around risk categories. It then examines the underlying emphasis in public health on the popular frame of "vulnerable women" who acquire HIV through heterosexual transmission. Drawing on work on gender, sexuality, and intersectionality, the paper asks why a discourse of vulnerability is infused into discussions of heterosexually-active women's HIV risks but not those pertaining to heterosexually-active men's.
POPULATION NEWS
Austrailan births hit 10-year high
(News Article; Oceania)
9 Dec 2005
Radio Australia
Australia's birth rate has jumped to a 10-year high with almost 260,000 births recorded in the past year.
Earth is all out of new farmland
(News Article; Global)
7 Dec 2005
Taipei Times
Scientists discover that the amount of cultivated land on the planet has increased from 7% to 40% in 300 years, leaving little room for expansion.
WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH
Acceptability and feasibility of continuous diaphragm use among sex workers in Madagascar
(Abstract; subscription needed for full text; Sub-Saharan Africa)
Sexually Transmitted Infections. 2005;81(6):472-476.
Behets F | Turner AN | Van Damme K | Rabenja NL | Ravelomanana N | Zeller K | Rasolofomanana JR
Over 8 weeks, researchers evaluated method acceptability by examining patterns of and problems with women’s (n=87) diaphragm use. At enrollment, participants reported a median of six sex acts with five clients in the previous week. During the follow-up period, participants reported a median of three sex acts with three clients during the previous 2 days, and self reported continuous diaphragm use during the previous day increased from 87% to 93%. Seven women became pregnant (incidence 53 pregnancies per 100 woman years).
Iranian women's perceptions of family-planning services quality: A client-satisfaction survey
(Abstract; subscription needed for full text; Middle East)
The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care. 2005 Sep;10(3):192-198.
Nakhaee N | Mirahmadizadeh AR
A representative sample of 909 women aged 15–50 referred to health centers were interviewed to clarify the client perceptions of the quality of family planning services in the capital cities of the two largest provinces of Iran. Half were aged 26–35 years, and most (84%) were housewives. The highest percentage of dissatisfaction was reported in relation to ‘privacy protection’ item. However, when the importance score was included, ‘provision of sufficient information regarding other contraceptive methods’ and ‘unavailability of all methods’ implicated the areas where priorities should be focused.
Declining syphilis prevalence among pregnant women in northern Botswana: an encouraging sign for the HIV epidemic?
(Abstract; subscription needed for full text; Sub-Saharan Africa)
Sexually Transmitted Infections. 2005;81(6):453-455.
Creek TL | Thuku H | Kolou B | Rahman M | Kilmarx PH
Researchers found that the overall syphilis prevalence (VDRL positive) among pregnant women in Francistown, Botswana, decreased from 12.4% in 1992 to 4.3% in 2003. The rate has been decreasing for the last 6 years, despite extremely high HIV prevalence (stable at 40% since 1996) in the same population. Reasons contributing to the decline in syphilis rates may include nationwide implementation of syndromic management of STDs in 1992, improved access to health care, and less risky sexual behavior.
‘What happens in Tenerife stays in Tenerife’: understanding women's sexual behaviour on holiday
(Abstract; subscription needed for full text; Global | Europe)
Culture, Health & Sexuality. 2005 Nov 1;7(6):571-584.
Thomas M
This paper explores the context of sexual risk behavior of women on holiday. Data suggest that freedom from the constraints and realities of domestic life is a crucial aspect of the holiday experience. This has implications for sexual risk: women have sexual intercourse more quickly with a new partner on holiday than they do at home.
WOMEN'S HEALTH NEWS
Lebanon: government, NGOs cooperate on issue of gender violence
(News Article; Middle East)
5 Dec 2005
Integrated Regional Information Networks
society groups in the capital Beirut are collaborating for the first time to tackle the issue of violence against women, the open discussion of which is still considered taboo in some segments of Lebanese society.
Do men cause PMS?
(Feature Article; Global)
8 Dec 2005
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
When women in an Australian study were asked to give an account of their PMS, many gave an account of a relationship issue. According to the study author: "What we found is rather than reporting symptoms [of PMS], women gave an account invariably of an issue with their partners. How is it a woman attributes a problem to PMS when often [it is] a really quite reasonable reason to be upset or angry or frustrated about what's happening in a relationship?'" Women in same-sex relationships reported the same symptoms but experienced less distress.
African politicians convene for conference on ending female genital cutting
(News Article; Sub-Saharan Africa)
6 Dec 2005
Un News Service
Ways of ending the dangerous practice of female genital cutting that violates the fundamental human rights of 3 million girls in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East were discussed by African parliamentarians as well as religious and traditional leaders at a just-concluded seminar co-organized by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Dakar, Senegal.
Established, older women tackling parenthood solo
(Feature Article; North America)
6 Dec 2005
Chicago Sun-Times
A generation ago, single, successful career women who hit a certain age resigned themselves to lives without motherhood. Today, more women are choosing to become single mothers, planning and saving for it and making it happen through adoption or donor insemination. And it's not costing them their jobs, the love of their families or respect on the block.
West Africa: rejecting FGM not an affront to tradition
(Feature Article; Sub-Saharan Africa)
7 Dec 2005
Integrated Regional Information Networks
West African religious and traditional leaders meeting with political officials affirmed their commitment to eradicating female genital mutilation, saying that to abandon the practice is not to reject traditional or religious values.
YOUTH HEALTH RESEARCH
HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes, related behaviors, and sources of information among Korean adolescents
(Abstract; subscription needed for full text; Asia)
Journal of School Health. 2005 Dec;75(10):393-399.
Yoo H | Lee SH | Kwon BE | Chung S | Kim S
This study examined HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes, related behaviors, and sources of HIV/AIDS information among high school-aged students in South Korea. Of 4.4% of respondents who had engaged in sexual intercourse, 40% had used condoms. Almost half of the total respondents reported they were not concerned about HIV/AIDS, and 94.4% indicated the need for receiving HIV prevention education in the future. The respondents identified TV (52.5%) and school classes (32.1%) as the two major sources of information on HIV/AIDS. Only a few pointed to their parents (1.3%) as a source of information.
Youth Infonet 20 - November 2005
(Newsletter; Global)
Family Health International, 2005.
This issue of the electronic newsletter features 15 program resources focusing on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention. It also includes summaries of four peer-reviewed articles featuring research on youth reproductive health and HIV/AIDS from Nepal, Brazil, and Zimbabwe.
YOUTH HEALTH NEWS
New tool to increase HIV/AIDS awareness among India's youth
(Press Release; Asia)
9 Dec 2005
UNFPA
Young people in India can now easily access information on how to build up their life skills against HIV infection and help change the course of the HIV epidemic, both in their communities and their country. The information, contained in a recently released handbook, also answers some of their frequently asked questions about the infection.
150 schoolgirls undergo FGM
(News Article; Sub-Saharan Africa)
7 Dec 2005
The East African Standard
More than 150 schoolgirls underwent forced female genital mutilation recently at Chepkobe village in West Pokot, Kenya.
Boys lag; does anyone care?
(News Article; North America)
6 Dec 2005
USA Today
Between fourth- and eighth- grades, the literacy gender gap doubles, and girls are ending up a year and a half ahead of boys, on average. Boys are twice as likely to land in special education and far more likely to be held back a grade and drop out. At many public universities and some private colleges, barely 40% of the students are male. Oddly, educators, researchers, and philanthropists agree there's no serious effort to figure out why this is happening and what can be done. That wasn't the case more than a decade ago, when the American Association of University Women and others raised alarm about girls falling behind in math and science. Parents and educators worked hard to correct that. By contrast, not a single state has launched a rescue effort aimed at boys' verbal skills.
BOOKS/BOOK REVIEWS
Race Against Time
(Book; Global)
House of Anansi Press, 2005.
Lewis S
Related Critique: Book review: Race Against Time
Stephen Lewis recounts how, in 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York introduced eight Millennium Development Goals, which focused on fundamental issues such as education, health, and cutting poverty in half by 2015. In audacious prose, alive with anecdotes ranging from maddening to hilarious to heartbreaking, Lewis shows why and how the international community is falling desperately short of these goals. In Race Against Time, Stephen Lewis probes the appalling gap between vision and current reality. But he also offers bracingly attainable solutions to help us avoid what will otherwise be a terrible stain on the record of human achievement in the twenty-first century. Also available is a set of 5 Audio CDs of CBC's Ideas broadcast lectures of Race Against Time.
Environments for Health
(Book; Global)
Earthscan Publications, 2005.
Macdonald JJ
The vast proportion of cash spent on health care by governments and individuals in the world is spent on systems of health care that are based on a more or less Westernised acute care model. The imbalance of these systems, with their overemphasis on cure, as opposed to care and prevention or maintenance of health, is well documented. Providing a framework for salutogenic health care takes a holistic view of the individual as part of a social and environmental continuum rather than as an isolated packet of symptoms; and seeks to reassess the very meaning of health. There are some indications that we, as a global culture, are moving towards this new salutogenic model, but the speed of the movement has to be accelerated. This book sets out to chart the main steps of this movement and to indicate some of the ways of thinking and action which can help form new ways of approaching health care.
The Peri-urban Interface
(Book; Global)
Earthscan Publications, 2005.
Peri-urban interfaces - the places where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning, and agriculture land degradation. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need unique and innovative approaches and solutions. This book, authored by the top researchers and practitioners, covers the full breadth and depth of the impacts of rapid urbanization on livelihoods, poverty and resources in the peri-urban zone, and lays out strategies for researching and overcoming these problems and promoting truly sustainable natural and human resource development.
SPECIAL REPORTS/PROFILES/RESOURCES
Malaria and TB: implementing proven treatment and eradication methods
(Unpublished Work; Global)
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Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005. (House Serial Publication 109-65)
This document is the official transcript of a hearing before the subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, held April 26, 2005. Witnesses testifying include Mark Dybul, MD, Assistant U.S. Global Aids Coordinator and Chief Medical Officer, Office of the U.S. Global Aids Coordinator, U.S. Department of State and Michael Miller, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development.
Household Sample Surveys in Developing and Transition Countries
(Teaching and Training Material; Global)
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New York, United Nations, 2005. (Series F No. 96)
This manual (655 pp.) was created to assist national survey statisticians to design household surveys in an efficient and reliable manner, and to allow users to make greater use of survey generated data.
Designing household survey samples: practical guidelines
(Teaching and Training Material; Global)
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New York, United Nations, 2005. (Series F No.98)
The main purpose of this handbook is to include in one publication the main sample survey design issues that can conveniently be referred to by practicing national statisticians, researchers, and analysts involved in sample survey work and activities in countries.
Calendar of Events
December 14, 2005Policy Seminar Series: Fatherhood in the Gender Revolution
Economic and demographic changes should have generated a trend toward gender equality as the importance of men's physical strength has greatly decreased as has the importance of women's fertility. However, this trend toward equality was interrupted by the lagged move out of the household economy: men moved out about a century before women did, leading to the creation of the separate spheres ideology. One consequence was that women came to own the home, its tasks, and its occupants (particularly the children), which, like the glass ceiling in the workplace, currently poses a barrier to gender equality. Dr. Goldscheider will outline a series of research challenges for studying work and family trade-offs for men, showing that many of the issues are quite different from those studied over the past 30 years for women.
Event Location: Washington, DC
January 24, 2006 - January 25, 2006
Practical Strategies for Dealing with The Stigma of HIV/ AIDS In Your Workplace
The conference will cover key issues such as: Clarifying the differences between stigma and discrimination; improving communication and eradicating mistrust to decrease stigma in your company; educating your employees about the legal rights of people living with HIV/AIDS with regards to stigma and discrimination; recognising common mistakes that are made within the workplace that lead to stigmatization so that you can effectively eradicate it from your company.
Event Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
February 6, 2006 - February 7, 2006
The WTO and the Sustainable Development Agenda: Prospects after Hong Kong
Continuing with its established tradition of convening biennial conference on international trade and sustainable development, Chatham House will host a major international conference in January 2006 - an invaluable opportunity for policy makers, industry representatives, NGOs and academics to review the progress achieved in Hong Kong and discuss the future of the Doha round.
Contact's Name: Dino Ribeiro / E-Mail: dribeiro@chathamhouse.org.uk
Event Location: Chatham House, London
February 9, 2006 - February 10, 2006
Politics and Science: How Their Interplay Results in Public Policy
The increasing politicization of science can lead to policy decisions that run counter to accepted scientific consensus and risk endangering our health and well-being. Scientists and policy-makers from across the political spectrum will assess the current tension between politics and science and discuss how to increase the likelihood that the best science becomes the basis for future public policy.
E-Mail: socres@newschool.eduEvent Location: New York, NY
March 27, 2006 - April 2, 2006
HIV Vaccines
The Vaccine Symposium will focus on basic aspects of antigen presentation, with a special attention to the role of MHC class II and the generation of antibodies. It is part of the Global Health Series, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Event Location: Keystone, Colorado
April 15, 2006 - April 19, 2006
XVIII World Congress of Sexual Health
Event Location: Sydney, Australia
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