What shapes research impact on policy? Understanding research uptake in sexual and reproductive health policy processes in resource poor contexts
Posted on May 15, 2015 at 6:42 am
Assessing the impact that research evidence has on policy is complex. It involves consideration of conceptual issues of what determines research impact and policy change. There are also a range of methodological issues relating to the question of attribution and ...
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Marital status and abortion among young women in Rupandehi, Nepal
Posted on May 11, 2015 at 5:37 am
Background: Despite liberalization of the Nepal abortion law, young women continue to experience barriers to safe abortion services. We hypothesize that marital status may differentially impact such barriers, given the societal context of Nepal. Methods: We evaluated differences in reproductive ...
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Lack of Sexual Minorities’ Rights as a Barrier to HIV Prevention among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women in Asia: A Systematic Review
Posted on May 11, 2015 at 5:33 am
The authors of this study developed a tool, the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Human Rights Index, to assess the relationship between human rights for sexual minorities in Asian countries and indicators of HIV prevention among men who have ...
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How Much Does It Cost to Improve Access to Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision among High-Risk, Low-Income Communities in Uganda?
Posted on May 11, 2015 at 5:29 am
The mobile voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) program in Uganda was established specifically to improve access to VMMC services in more remote, high-risk, and low-income populations. The authors of this study used costing information from routine implementation records to evaluate ...
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The True Costs of Maternal Death: Individual Tragedy Impacts Family, Community and Nations
Posted on May 11, 2015 at 5:22 am
What happens when a mother dies? In the West, the most obvious answer is grief – the harrowing emotional and psychological toll of losing a loved one. A mother’s death is largely viewed as a private tragedy that will grow ...
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Improving Access to Maternal Health and Contraceptives: Pharmaceutical Companies’ Contribution to MDG 5
Posted on April 30, 2015 at 6:05 am
Every day, an estimated 800 women die during pregnancy and childbirth due to preventable causes – most of whom live in developing countries. Today, the Access to Medicine Foundation publishes the first landscape study of pharmaceutical companies’ responses to MDG ...
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The Quality of Care in Provision of Female Sterilization and IUD Services
Posted on April 28, 2015 at 6:01 am
In many communities around the world, women continue to lack access to quality family planning services that provide the information, counseling and care necessary for them to make sound decisions about their fertility. And the caliber of care they receive ...
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WHO Statement on Caesarean Section Rates
Posted on April 28, 2015 at 5:17 am
Since 1985, the international healthcare community has considered the ideal rate for caesarean sections to be between 10-15%. Since then, caesarean sections have become increasingly common in both developed and developing countries. When medically necessary, a caesarean section can effectively ...
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Achieving respectful care for women and babies
Posted on April 28, 2015 at 5:01 am
April 11 is the International Day for Maternal Health and Rights, which aims to encourage rights-based, respectful care of women during pregnancy and childbirth. The day was launched last year by the Center for Health and Gender Equity, and co-sponsored ...
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Adolescent first births in East Africa: disaggregating characteristics, trends and determinants
Posted on April 14, 2015 at 4:56 am
Abstract Background The use of a single national figure fails to capture the complex patterns and inequalities in early childbearing that occur within countries, as well as the differing contexts in which these pregnancies occur. Further disaggregated data that examine ...
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