Items tagged with “Womens Health”
Accelerating Sustainable Domestic Health Financing in Africa
This report is a presentation that was given at the 4th Conference of African Ministers of Health (CAMH4), 4 to 8 April 2009, Addis Ababa by Rotimi Sankore, Coordinator Africa Public Health Alliance & 15% Campaign. It discusses the need for African…
Reproductive health for refugees by refugees in Guinea II: sexually transmitted infections
Providing reproductive and sexual health services is an important and challenging aspect of caring for displaced populations, and preventive and curative sexual health services may play a role in reducing HIV transmission in complex emergencies.…
Improving Quality of Care and Use of Contraceptives in Senegal
In the 1990s, the government of Senegal implemented a series of policy changes for the provision of family planning services through the public sector. A strategy to provide high quality services through reference centres was adopted. This paper…
Are Birth-preparedness Programmes Effective?
The birth-preparedness package (BPP) promotes active preparation and decision-making for births, including pregnancy/postpartum periods, by pregnant women and their families. This paper describes a district-wide field trial of the BPP implemented…
Behavior change in perinatal care practices among rural women exposed to a women’s group intervention in Nepal
A randomized controlled trial of participatory women's groups in rural Nepal previously showed reductions in maternal and newborn mortality. In addition to the outcome data we also collected previously unreported information from the subgroup of women…
A Conceptual Model for Empowerment of the Female Community Health Volunteers in Nepal
The existing top-down approach to training may not be appropriate to empower community health volunteers to produce a sustainable change in their performance. This paper proposes a conceptual model that relies on Freire’s theory of empowerment…
Increasing Contraceptive Acceptance through Empowerment of Female Community Health Volunteers in Rural Nepal
The purpose of this study was to enhance contraceptive acceptance among currently-married women of reproductive age through empowerment training of female community health volunteers. Seventeen volunteers working in Kakani Village Development Committee…
Marital Changes and Fertility Differences among Women and Men in Urban and Rural Mali
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between types of marriage celebration, time to cohabitation of spouses and age at first birth. The data are derived from a national survey conducted in Mali (Bamako, other urban and rural areas)…
CARE Mali Case Study
CARE’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Team presents their new case study, Keneya Ciwara: Supporting Family Planning in…
