New York Newsday, December 1, 2002

By Mabel Bianco

A United Nations report released last week announced that women have caught up with men as far as AIDS is concerned. Half the adults affected with HIV worldwide are now women. This shouldn't come as much of a surprise. It was just a matter of time before the disease shifted from one originally affecting gay white men to one transmitted heterosexually all over the world.

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Summary: By Françoise Girard andWilhelmina Waldman (International Family Planning Perspectives, Vol.26, No. 4, December, 2000, New York: Alan Guttmacher Institute).Examines the international legal framework for the reproductive rightsof refugees and internationally displaced persons, as well as someaspects of UN and NGO policies relevant to refugee reproductive health(7 pages).

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Summary: By Françoise Girard (Journal of Women's Health and Law, Vol. I, No. 1, November, 1999, Toronto and Vancouver: Butterworths). Analyzes the significance for women's health of the UN's five-year review of implementation of the Programme of Action agreed in the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). The author outlines and discusses the significance and impact of the original ICPD agreements and of the new commitments made by governments in 1999 to hasten implementation of the Programme of Action (14 pages).

August 14, 2006, XVI International AIDS ConferenceToronto, Canada
Remarks by Paulette Nicholas and Judith Auerbach
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Summary: By Adrienne Germain(Critical Issues in Global Health, edited by C. Everett Koop, M.D.,Sc.D., Clarence E. Pearson, MPH, and M. Roy Schwarz, M.D. SanFrancisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000). Invited chapter lays out policy priorities for the 21st Century that address the continuing human threats to women's reproductive and sexual health (8 pages)

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Summary: By Alexandrina B. Marcelo andAdrienne Germain (Contraceptive Research and Development 1984 to 1994:The Road From Mexico City to Cairo and Beyond, edited by P.F.A. VanLook and G. Perez-Palacios, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994).Invited paper prepared for the Second Inter-Agency Consultation on"Meeting the Challenges of the 1990s in Human Reproduction Research"(17 pages).

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Summary: By Adrienne Germain and AnibalFaundes (Challenges in Reproductive Health Research: Biennial Report1992-1993, edited by J. Khanna, P.F.A. Van Look and P.D. Griffin,Geneva: World Health Organization, 1994). Invited chapter in report ofUNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Developmentand Research Training in Human Reproduction describing the need for andbenefits of including women as decision makers in the development anddelivery of reproductive health technology (7 pages).