Reproductive Health Matters - Vol. 13 no. 25 (May 2005)

• THEME FOCUS -Implementing ICPD : what's happening in countries
• Strategy to accelerate progress towards the attainment of international development goals and targets related to reproductive health
• Girls cant wait - why girls' education matters and how to make it happen now
• Norway at ICPD+10: international assistance for reproductive health does not reflect domestic policies
• Women's perceptions of reproductive health in three communities around Beirut, Lebanon
• Women in Arab countries: challenging the patriarchal system?
• The sexual and reproductive health of young people in the Arab countries and Iran
• A strategic assessment of the reproductive health and responsible parenthood programme of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• The population and reproductive health programme in Brazil 1990-2002: lessons learned
• Sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United Kingdom at ICPD+10
• Global progress in abortion advocacy and policy: an assessment of the decade since ICPD
• Orphans and vulnerable children
• Letter to the editor - We are cracking open some taboos - what about the remaining ones?
• Commentary - ICPD goals: essential to the Millennium Development Goals
• Roundtable - Thinking beyond ICPD+10: where should our movement be going?
• Analysis - Legal harmonization and reproductive tourism in Europe
• THEME FOCUS - Maternal health and family planning
• Maternal health and HIV
• Focus on women: linking HIV care and treatment with reproductive health services in the MTCT-Plus Initiative
• Syrian women's perceptions and experiences of ultrasound screening in pregnancy: implications for antenatal policy
• Resumption of sexual relations followin childbirth: norms, practices and reproductive health issues in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
• Why withdrawal, why not withdrawal? Men's perspectives
• Conference report - AIDS 2004, Bangkok: A human rights and development issue
• Bookshelf - Women and HIV/AIDS: confronting the crisis. UNAIDS 2004
• Round Ups
• Condoms - Contreceptive effectiveness of male condoms high ; Better instruction in the use of condoms could reduce breakage and slippage ; Branded mass media condom campaigns positively affect risk perception ; Le Visa - Niger's own brand of condom ; Advertising condoms in Korea ; More training in condom use needed in the UK ; Delayed application of condoms is common in Australia ; Condom use can speed up regression of HPV-associated lesions
• HIV/AIDS - Mortality for babies born with HIV in relation to mothers' risk of death ; HIV and infant feeding : global guidelines and local realities ; Trends in HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa reviewed ; Changing behaviour and reduction of HIV prevalence in Tanzania ; Partner reduction, including concurrent partnerships, essential for HIV prevention ; Coordinating funds against HIV/AIDS is proving difficult ; Medecins sans Frontieres challenges WHO conclusions about global AIDS treatment ; Integrating HIV services can improve all primary health care indicators ; Rapid HIV testing piloted in Swaziland ; Cameroon government entitled to post-exposure prophylaxis in the US ; US refusal to fund HIV programmes for sex workers undermines women's rights ; Misinformation on nevirapine safety puts developing country PMTCT programmes at risk
• Service delivery - New heat-resistant aspirator for early abortions and treatment for incomplete abortion ; Introducing a new model of antenatal care to Thailand ; Providing reproductive health care in Afghanistan ; Developing a strategy to reduce maternal deaths: Sri Lanka ; Poor rural women missing out on antenatal care in north India ; Maternal mortality ratio reduced by half in Egypt ; New health care system fails Arab Israeli women ; Using participatory women's groups to reduce neonatal mortality in Nepal ; Post-partum morbidity among Karachi women ; Midwives discuss their approach to elective caesarean section ; Second opinion rarely prevents unneccary caesarean ; Investigating the consequences of repeated caesarean section ; Doctors in Chile deliver adolescent education in schools ; Improving medical students' confidence in dealing with sexual health ; South African men have poor understanding of fertility and infertility ; Text messages to promote daily oral contraceptive use in the UK ; No reason for limiting use of emergency contraception ; Portuguese women learn about misoprostol from Women on Waves ; Reproductive rights and adults with learning disabilities ; High level of abortion-related deaths in Russia linked to late abortion ; UK cervical cancer screening saves up to 5000 women a year ; Ovarian tissue transplant leads to successful birth ; Information about women's health disappearing in the US
• Law and policy - Training paralegals in adolescent reproductive rights in Ghana ; FDA delays approval of over-the-counter emergency contraception in US ; Mexican government authorises emergency contraception ; China makes sex-selective abortions a crime ; Doctors in Jamaica call for changes to abortion legislation ; UK guidelines advise against caesarean section on demand ; Homosexual men and lesbian women tortured because of their sexuality ; Challenging the ethics of posthumous sperm retrieval in Israel ; Vietnam youth dialogue with policymakers ; Constituional challenge in Colombia seeks to change abortion law ; Beijing+10: women's human rights and gender equality prevail
• Research - Safety of breast implants still unclear ; Half of us live where the fertility rate is below replacement level ; Reproductive spans contracting in India ; Primary health care nurses in South Africa want to be included in policymaking ; Wmen's perspectives on antenatal care in rural Zimbabwe ; Death in childbirth more likely than a primary education for Sudanese women ; Youth pregnancy crisis in Ireland is fuelled by a lack of contraceptive use ; Knowledge of fertile does not significantly affect failure of periodic abstinence ; Risk of pregnancy after ligation-and-excision vasectomies ; Low rate of infection after medical abortion ; Misoprostol alone for medical abortion in the US ; Problems diagnosing genital tuberculosis in women in developing countries ; Abuse in pregnancy in China ; Oestrogen does not protect postmenopausal women from decreasing mental function ; Scottish abortion rates not affected by availability of emergency contraception ; Masculinity, infertility, stigma and media reports ; Pregnancy rates have fallen in teens and risen in the over 30s in Canada