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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionWednesday, 01 January 1992
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Summary: Edited by Adrienne Germain, King K. Holmes, Peter Piot, and Judith N. Wasserheit (New York: Plenum Press, 1992). Fourteen papers from 1991 conference, "Reproductive Tract Infections in Women in the Third World: National and International Policy Implications," co-sponsored by IWHC and the Rockefeller Foundation and held at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center. Provides a pioneering international literature review, country case studies, and policy analysis (395 pages).
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionTuesday, 01 January 1991
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionTuesday, 01 January 1991
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Summary: By Ruth Dixon-Mueller and Judith N. Wasserheit (New York: International Women's Health Coalition, 1991). Reviews data on reproductive tract infections (RTIs) and makes recommendations for action by policy makers and service providers (18 pages).
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Summary: By Ruth Dixon Mueller (International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 20, No. 2, 1990, New York: Baywood Publishing). This paper, commissioned by IWHC, draws on presentations given at the IWHC-sponsored Christopher Tietze International Symposium, "Women's Health in the Third World: The Impact of Unwanted Pregnancies," Brazil, 1988 (17 pages).
To order a copy of this article, email Whitney Welshimer at wwelshimer@iwhc.org.
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionThursday, 26 April 2012The international target of universal access to reproductive health is vital to the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to the effective implementation of population, health, and development policies. Attaining sexual and reproductive health and rights for all requires an essential policy package, which originated at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and remains relevant today.
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionThursday, 26 April 2012Universal access to reproductive health is vital to the effective implementation of population, health and development policies and to the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This IWHC brief describes in practical terms the justification for and components of the essential policy and program package.
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionThursday, 22 April 2010April 22, 2010—The International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) today lauded the introduction of the Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act of 2010 in the House of Representatives by Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (NY-11).
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionThursday, 15 October 2009
Every year, more than half a million women die and untold numbers suffer temporary or long-term disabilities from preventable pregnancy-related causes. Five complications account for the majority of maternal deaths worldwide. Read more in English, Spanish, French, or Portuguese.
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionTuesday, 01 July 2008Recent research suggests that male circumcision may be a cost-effective means of reducing HIV infection rates, especially in generalized epidemics where more than one percent of the population is living with HIV/AIDS.