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Actualización de contenido - Población y Salud Reproductiva en el Development Gateway ------------------------- 62 {totalItems} nuevos recursos en la página Población y Salud Reproductiva del Development Gateway http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop 1. Fred H. Bixby Fellowship Program - Population Council 2. Population Council - Gender, Family and Development Program. 3. Gender and Family Dynamics - Power in Relationships 4. Population Council - Ebert Program on Critical Issues in Reproductive Health 5. The Use of Flexibilities in TRIPS by Developing Countries: Can They Promote Access to Medicines? 6. The Esperanza Medicines Foundation for Research and Development of Affordable AIDS Medicines for Developing Countries 7. Poverty Pockets in Gauteng: How Migration Impacts Poverty 8. The United States at 300 Million: How We Have Changed since the United States was a Nation of 200 Million 9. NEW DISCUSSION FORUM: How Will the World Address the Need for 1.3 Billion Youth to Compete for 300 Million Jobs? 10. Advocacy to Accelerate Ethical Research and Global Delivery of AIDS Vaccines 11. Was the ?ABC? Approach (Abstinence, Being Faithful, Using Condoms) Responsible for Uganda's Decline in HIV? 12. Asia Pacific Health Resources 13. Development Marketplace 2007 - Improving Results in Health, Nutrition and Population for the Poor 14. Neonatal, Child and Maternal Health (Article Collection; The Lancet) 15. World Vision's HIV/AIDS Hope Initiative 16. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (India) Launches a Campaign "Condom Bindas Bol!" in Association with USAID 17. "Bond for vaccines takes to the road" 18. Gender Equality as Smart Economics: A World Bank Group Gender Action Plan (Fiscal years 2007?10) 19. Implementation Science ? Online Journal 20. Translating Global Recommendations on HIV and Infant Feeding to the Local Context 21. STAND UP ? Against Poverty and for the Millennium Development Goals (15 and 16 October 2006) 22. ERITREA: Renewed Efforts to Outlaw Female Genital Mutilation 23. Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC): A Field Manual 24. Participatory Mapping and Geographic Information Systems: Whose Map? Who is Empowered and Who Disempowered? Who Gains and Who Loses? 25. Participatory Spatial Information Management and Communication in Developing Countries 26. Policy Workshop on HIV/AIDS and Family Well-being (Windhoek, Namibia, 28-30 January 2004) 27. Youth Outreach Programme (YOP) - Cameroon 28. State of World Population 2006 - A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration 29. The World Health Report 2006 - Working Together for Health 30. International Breast Milk Project (IBMP) 31. Population Council - Frontiers: Highlighting Marital HIV Risk and Promoting Premarital VCT in Nyanza, Kenya 32. WHO - Eleventh General Programme of Work (GPW) 33. New dgSurvey - "Empowering the Next Generation: Youth in the Developing World" 34. The Road Towards Universal Access - UNAIDS 35. Counting the Organisational Cost of HIV/AIDS to Civil Society Organisations 36. International Symposium on Sexual Violence in Conflict and Beyond (21-23 June 2006, Brussels) 37. In-depth Study on All Forms of Violence Against Women: Report of the Secretary-General 38. Married Adolescents: No Place of Safety 39. Danger Signs of Neonatal Illnesses: Perceptions of Caregivers and Health Workers in Northern India 40. Pregnant Adolescents: Delivering on Global Promises of Hope 41. Oral Misoprostol in Preventing Postpartum Haemorrhage in Resource-poor Communities: A Randomised Controlled Trial 42. Health and Economic Development in South-eastern Europe 43. Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) 44. Reproductive Health of Young Adults in India: The Road to Public Health 45. "Herbal medicine and the Cat Unit" 46. CD-ROMs on Female Genital Cutting (FGC) 47. Measuring Progress towards the MDG for Maternal Health: Including a Measure of the Health System's Capacity to Treat Obstetric Complications 48. Can the Process Indicators for Emergency Obstetric Care Assess the Progress of Maternal Mortality Reduction Programs? 49. Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey 2005 50. Guyana HIV/AIDS Indicator Survey 2005 51. Factors that Influence Women?s Uptake of PMTCT Interventions in Georgetown, Guyana (2005) 52. The Context of Women?s Health: Results from the Demographic and Health Surveys, 1994-2001 53. Women?s Lives and Experiences: Changes in the Past Ten Years 54. Infant and Young Child Feeding Update (Nutrition 1) 55. UNICEF Marks World Food Day with a Focus on Undernourished Children 56. Do Standards and Discrepancies in Data Sources Matter? 57. Decentralization and National Human Development Reports 58. Special Edition of Maitreyee (June 2006) 59. Operational Poverty Targeting in Peru - Proxy Means Testing with Non-Income Indicators 60. International Migration and Development 61. Position Paper on "Honor Killings" 62. NIAID Announces New Campaign to Raise Awareness of Preventive HIV Vaccine Research ------------------------- 1. Fred H. Bixby Fellowship Program - Population Council http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1074823 The Population Council has created a new fellowship program to expand opportunities for recently trained population specialists and biomedical researchers. The Council's Fred H. Bixby Fellowship Program is a ten-year program, beginning in January... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 30 Sep , 2006 2. Population Council - Gender, Family and Development Program. http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1074834 Through program experiments, research, publications, and policy dialogue, the Population Council's Gender, Family and Development Program (GFD) is a leader in highlighting the social determinants of reproductive and sexual health. GFD aims to... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 30 Sep , 2006 3. Gender and Family Dynamics - Power in Relationships http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1074840 For some time the Population Council's Gender, Family, and Development (GFD) program has fostered exploration of how gender and power imbalances between men and women affect reproductive and sexual decisionmaking behavior, care seeking, safety, and... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 30 Sep , 2006 4. Population Council - Ebert Program on Critical Issues in Reproductive Health http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1074859 For more than 16 years, the Population Council?s Robert H. Ebert Program on Critical Issues in Reproductive Health has been pursuing innovative research strategies to address neglected or marginalized issues that affect the reproductive health and... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 30 Sep , 2006 5. The Use of Flexibilities in TRIPS by Developing Countries: Can They Promote Access to Medicines? http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1074987 Summary: "This study was commissioned to: (1) examine the extent to which the flexibilities contained in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) have been incorporated into the... Contribuido por John Daly el 30 Sep , 2006 6. The Esperanza Medicines Foundation for Research and Development of Affordable AIDS Medicines for Developing Countries http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075261 The Esperanza Medicines Foundation, based in Switzerland, is an independent and not-for-profit organisation for the research and development of affordable AIDS Medicines for developing countries. The strategy is based on Natural Products with proven... Contribuido por Sacha Sidjanski el 02 Oct , 2006 7. Poverty Pockets in Gauteng: How Migration Impacts Poverty http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075316 (Cross, C.; Kok, P.; Wentzel, M.; Tlabela, K; Weir-Smith, G.; and Mafukidze, J. / Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South Africa , 2005). It is widely assumed that rural migrants arriving in South Africa's cities create areas with a high... Contribuido por Silvia Marcoccio el 03 Oct , 2006 8. The United States at 300 Million: How We Have Changed since the United States was a Nation of 200 Million http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075398 "The United States is set to reach a milestone in October. It will become the third country?after China and India?to be home to at least 300 million people. Each 100 million has been added more quickly than the last. It took the United States more... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 03 Oct , 2006 9. NEW DISCUSSION FORUM: How Will the World Address the Need for 1.3 Billion Youth to Compete for 300 Million Jobs? http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075435 dgCommunities are invited to participate in a new Discussion Forum posted on the Youth for Development dgCommunity. According to World Bank Senior Pawan Patil, in five years, the world's population of 1.3 billion youth will be competing for 300... Contribuido por Charlotte Moser el 03 Oct , 2006 10. Advocacy to Accelerate Ethical Research and Global Delivery of AIDS Vaccines http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075196 In 2005 alone, five million people were infected with HIV and three million people died as a result of AIDS. Over 40 million people across the globe are infected with HIV/AIDS today and 14,000 new infections occur every day. While efforts continue to... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 02 Oct , 2006 11. Was the ?ABC? Approach (Abstinence, Being Faithful, Using Condoms) Responsible for Uganda's Decline in HIV? http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075208 The debate, led by Elaine M. Murphy, Margaret E. Greene, Alexandra Mihailovic, and Peter Olupot-Olupot covers Uganda - one of the few African countries where rates of HIV infection have fallen, from about 15 percent in the early 1990s to about five... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 02 Oct , 2006 12. Asia Pacific Health Resources http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075283 This site, the Health section of the Australian Development Gateway, provides information and resources for health practitioners and development workers in the Asia Pacific region. The site will benefit people involved in public health and health... Contribuido por Sarah Jones el 03 Oct , 2006 13. Development Marketplace 2007 - Improving Results in Health, Nutrition and Population for the Poor http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075382 DM2007 is offering US$4 Million in awards for proposals with innovative ideas to improve health, nutrition, population outcomes of poor people in developing countries. How to Apply: Review the 2007 Competition Guidelines. 1] DM2007 Competition... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 03 Oct , 2006 14. Neonatal, Child and Maternal Health (Article Collection; The Lancet) http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075791 The Lancet has compiled a collection on newborn, child, and maternal survival, including exclusive online material, coverage of meetings and special issues/series relating to child survival, and a complete article collection dating back to 2003. As... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 04 Oct , 2006 15. World Vision's HIV/AIDS Hope Initiative http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075465 World Vision has committed itself to the challenge of alleviating the impact of AIDS for two main reasons; because it is the biggest single challenge facing development and because we care about children. World Vision's HIV/AIDS HOPE Initiative,... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 03 Oct , 2006 16. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (India) Launches a Campaign "Condom Bindas Bol!" in Association with USAID http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075512 To remove any perceived embarrassment associated with buying, using and selling condoms, the United States Agency For International Development (USAID) with support from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched a new campaign, Condom... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 04 Oct , 2006 17. "Bond for vaccines takes to the road" http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075768 Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Norway plan to raise up to US$1 billion on international bond markets next week as the funding for the International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFI). Aid pledges are to be used as collateral for cash... Contribuido por John Daly el 04 Oct , 2006 18. Gender Equality as Smart Economics: A World Bank Group Gender Action Plan (Fiscal years 2007?10) http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075850 Using examples from developing countries, the new World Bank Gender Action Plan says that investing in women is already showing results, but needs to go much further, as women gain the tools and expertise to go into business on their own, and buy... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 05 Oct , 2006 19. Implementation Science ? Online Journal http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075967 Published by BioMed Central, Implementation Science is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that aims to publish research relevant to the scientific study of methods to promote the uptake of research findings into routine healthcare in both... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 05 Oct , 2006 20. Translating Global Recommendations on HIV and Infant Feeding to the Local Context http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075969 Full-title: Translating Global Recommendations on HIV and Infant Feeding to the Local Context: The Development of Culturally Sensitive Counselling Tools in the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. "This paper describes the process used to develop an... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 05 Oct , 2006 21. STAND UP ? Against Poverty and for the Millennium Development Goals (15 and 16 October 2006) http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075975 "Launched by the Millennium Campaign, STAND UP is a global advocacy effort to set an official Guinness World Record - the greatest number of people ever to STAND UP Against Poverty and for the Millennium Development Goals. On October 15-16 2006, the... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 05 Oct , 2006 22. ERITREA: Renewed Efforts to Outlaw Female Genital Mutilation http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076016 NAIROBI, 4 Oct 2006 (IRIN): "Women in Eritrea have joined a nationwide campaign to try to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM) by lobbying for a law to ban the practice and raise mass awareness among the population, an official at the National... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 05 Oct , 2006 23. Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC): A Field Manual http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075966 FANTA (Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance), together with partners Valid International and Concern Worldwide, is pleased to announce the release of Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC): A Field Manual. The manual provides provides program... Contribuido por Heather Finegan el 05 Oct , 2006 24. Participatory Mapping and Geographic Information Systems: Whose Map? Who is Empowered and Who Disempowered? Who Gains and Who Loses? http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1075995 In recent years, changes in participatory methodologies (PMs) may have been even more rapid than those in spatial technologies. Local people's abilities to make maps only became widely known and facilitated in the early 1990s. Participatory mapping... Contribuido por Giacomo Rambaldi el 05 Oct , 2006 25. Participatory Spatial Information Management and Communication in Developing Countries http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076009 The merging of participatory development methods with geo-spatial technologies has come to be known as Participatory GIS and is now an emergent development practice in its own right. PGIS combines a range of geo-spatial information management tools... Contribuido por Giacomo Rambaldi el 05 Oct , 2006 26. Policy Workshop on HIV/AIDS and Family Well-being (Windhoek, Namibia, 28-30 January 2004) http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076055 "The purpose of the Policy Workshop on HIV/AIDS and Family Well-being, held in Windhoek, Namibia was to bring together representatives of governments and non-governmental organizations as well as academic experts and practitioners from various... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 06 Oct , 2006 27. Youth Outreach Programme (YOP) - Cameroon http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076071 Youth Outreach Programme (YOP) is a non-profit organisation (NPO) which focuses on building the capacity of young people in Cameroon to be able to take up leadership roles and play active roles in society with confidence. YOP's shares information and... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 06 Oct , 2006 28. State of World Population 2006 - A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076142 This year's State of World Population report "A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration" examines the scope and breadth of female migration, the impact of the funds they send home to support families and communities, and their... Contribuido por Barbara Iuliano el 08 Oct , 2006 29. The World Health Report 2006 - Working Together for Health http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076191 The World Health Report 2006 - Working together for health, released by WHO, contains an expert assessment of the current crisis in the global health workforce and ambitious proposals to tackle it over the next ten years, starting immediately. The... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 08 Oct , 2006 30. International Breast Milk Project (IBMP) http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076176 IBMP provides donor breast milk and funding for milk banks development from the United States to children who have been orphaned by HIV in Africa. In addition to the immediate health benefits, breast milk provides orphans with a greater chance of... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 08 Oct , 2006 31. Population Council - Frontiers: Highlighting Marital HIV Risk and Promoting Premarital VCT in Nyanza, Kenya http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1074828 [Scroll down to the Kenya project] Kenya: FRONTIERS is working with PATH in Nyanza, western Kenya, to design and implement an intervention to increase awareness of the association between increased risk of HIV/AIDS and early marriage. About 25... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 30 Sep , 2006 32. WHO - Eleventh General Programme of Work (GPW) http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076183 The World Health Organization's Eleventh General Programme of Work 2006-2015 (GPW) is a global health agenda for WHO, its Member States and the international community that stems from an analysis of the current global health situation. From the... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 08 Oct , 2006 33. New dgSurvey - "Empowering the Next Generation: Youth in the Developing World" http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076568 More than 1.3 billion young people between the ages of 12 and 24 years old now live in the developing world. Developing countries that invest in better education, healthcare, and job training for their young people could produce economic growth and... Contribuido por Charlotte Moser el 10 Oct , 2006 34. The Road Towards Universal Access - UNAIDS http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076212 Reaching the Millennium Development Goal on HIV/AIDS ? to halt and reverse the spread of the epidemic by 2015 ? requires far greater access to HIV prevention services and AIDS treatment, care and support than is currently available. A United Nations... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 09 Oct , 2006 35. Counting the Organisational Cost of HIV/AIDS to Civil Society Organisations http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076387 HIV/AIDS mainstreaming has traditionally been equated with adjusting programmes to be more relevant to beneficiaries affected by HIV/AIDS. Bitter experience is demonstrating, however, that civil society organisations (CSOs) are not immune to the... Contribuido por Phil Dines el 09 Oct , 2006 36. International Symposium on Sexual Violence in Conflict and Beyond (21-23 June 2006, Brussels) http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076593 The three-day International Symposium on Sexual Violence in Conflict and Beyond (21-23 June 2006, Brussels) was co-convened by UNFPA, the European Commission and the Government of Belgium. Participants included heads of United Nations agencies and... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 10 Oct , 2006 37. In-depth Study on All Forms of Violence Against Women: Report of the Secretary-General http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076594 In December 2003, the General Assembly mandated the preparation of an in-depth study on all forms and manifestations of violence against women (resolution 58/185). This request is a clear signal of the importance that Member States - through the... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 10 Oct , 2006 38. Married Adolescents: No Place of Safety http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076596 "The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Population Council convened a Technical Consultation on married adolescents in Geneva in December 2003 to address this gap in understanding and programming. The... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 10 Oct , 2006 39. Danger Signs of Neonatal Illnesses: Perceptions of Caregivers and Health Workers in Northern India http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076846 This study aimed to assess household practices that can affect neonatal health, from the perspective of caregivers and health workers; to identify signs in neonates leading either to recognition of illness or health-care seeking; and to ascertain the... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 11 Oct , 2006 40. Pregnant Adolescents: Delivering on Global Promises of Hope http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076847 "Between 14 million and 15 million girls and young women give birth each year, accounting for more than 10% of births worldwide. Because of concern at high levels of unwanted pregnancy amongst adolescents, and of sexually transmitted infections and... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 11 Oct , 2006 41. Oral Misoprostol in Preventing Postpartum Haemorrhage in Resource-poor Communities: A Randomised Controlled Trial http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076853 Postpartum haemorrhage is a major cause of maternal mortality in the developing world. Although effective methods for prevention and treatment of such haemorrhage exist - such as the uterotonic drug oxytocin?most are not feasible in resource-poor... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 11 Oct , 2006 42. Health and Economic Development in South-eastern Europe http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076857 "Health is increasingly seen as a robust predictor of economic growth. This report examines the contribution of health to economic development in south-eastern Europe, where the dynamics of health cooperation gained momentum following the Second... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 11 Oct , 2006 43. Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076916 The HiCN brings together researchers interested in the micro-economic and econometric analysis of the relationship between violent conflict and household behaviour. The purpose of the HiCN is to undertake collaborative research into the causes and... Contribuido por Karsten Weitzenegger el 11 Oct , 2006 44. Reproductive Health of Young Adults in India: The Road to Public Health http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076854 Pathfinder International is pleased to announce the publication of Reproductive Health of Young Adults in India: The Road to Public Health. RHEYA?s goal was to promote change in the reproductive behavior of youth, specifically delaying marriage and... Contribuido por Mary Burket el 11 Oct , 2006 45. "Herbal medicine and the Cat Unit" http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1076414 The Association for African Medicinal Plants Standards plans to launch an African Herbal Pharmacopoeia. The idea is to provide useful, high quality information that can further the appropriate utilization of herbal remedies as well as African... Contribuido por John Daly el 09 Oct , 2006 46. CD-ROMs on Female Genital Cutting (FGC) http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077031 Abandoning Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Information From Around the World (August 2005), available in English and French, is a collection of data and research on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) from a wide variety of sources. Funded... Contribuido por Denise Senmartin el 12 Oct , 2006 47. Measuring Progress towards the MDG for Maternal Health: Including a Measure of the Health System's Capacity to Treat Obstetric Complications http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077039 This paper argues for an additional indicator for measuring progress of the Millennium Development Goal for maternal health - the availability of emergency obstetric care. MDG monitoring will be based on two indicators: the maternal mortality ratio... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 12 Oct , 2006 48. Can the Process Indicators for Emergency Obstetric Care Assess the Progress of Maternal Mortality Reduction Programs? http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077041 Full-title: Can the Process Indicators for Emergency Obstetric Care Assess the Progress of Maternal Mortality Reduction Programs? An Examination of UNFPA Projects 2000 ? 2004. In view of the disappointing progress made in the last 20 years in... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 12 Oct , 2006 49. Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey 2005 http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077139 This DHS Final Report covers the findings from the 2005 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS). The report shows lower HIV prevalence than previous estimates. According to the report, 1.4 percent of Ethiopians age 15-49 are HIV-positive. Women... Contribuido por Erica Nybro el 13 Oct , 2006 50. Guyana HIV/AIDS Indicator Survey 2005 http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077141 The 2005 Guyana HIV/AIDS Indicator Survey (GAIS) is the first household survey of HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes and behaviors in Guyana. The survey reveals that almost all Guyanese have heard of HIV/AIDS, and 75 percent of adults know that limiting... Contribuido por Erica Nybro el 13 Oct , 2006 51. Factors that Influence Women?s Uptake of PMTCT Interventions in Georgetown, Guyana (2005) http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077143 This qualitative research study, conducted in Guyana in 2005 as part of the MEASURE DHS+ project, aimed to understand why women attending antenatal care (ANC) clinics that offer PMTCT services in Georgetown, Guyana do not complete HIV counseling and... Contribuido por Erica Nybro el 13 Oct , 2006 52. The Context of Women?s Health: Results from the Demographic and Health Surveys, 1994-2001 http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077144 This report compares key women's health indicators in 46 countries throughout the world. The report explores the status of maternal health as well as the social, behavioral and environmental contexts of women's lives. Maternal health indicators... Contribuido por Erica Nybro el 13 Oct , 2006 53. Women?s Lives and Experiences: Changes in the Past Ten Years http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077146 This summary of research findings from the Demographic and Health Surveys looks at 10 years of changes in women's experiences since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo committed to improving women's... Contribuido por Erica Nybro el 13 Oct , 2006 54. Infant and Young Child Feeding Update (Nutrition 1) http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077149 This publication presents data on key indicators related to optimal feeding practices including breastfeeding, consumption of solid and semi-solid foods, micronutrient intake and feeding during diarrhea. Nutrition data from 43 countries worldwide are... Contribuido por Erica Nybro el 13 Oct , 2006 55. UNICEF Marks World Food Day with a Focus on Undernourished Children http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077473 NEW YORK, 16 October 2006 (UNICEF) - The UN Children's Fund stressed that under-nutrition remains a major killer of children under five, contributing to approximately 50 per cent of the more than 10 million child deaths every year. But it also held... Contribuido por Jean-Charles Le Vallée el 16 Oct , 2006 56. Do Standards and Discrepancies in Data Sources Matter? http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077161 "Yes they do. Even if the data were used only for international comparisons, the lack of standards and the existence of sometimes large discrepancies can be very misleading in terms of human development and could lead to wrong decisions about social... Contribuido por emmanuel Asomba el 13 Oct , 2006 57. Decentralization and National Human Development Reports http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077197 "Decentralization is a complex process taking place in several developing and transition countries. Decentralization policies influence national and local change, and have a direct impact on institutions, communities and individuals. As such,... Contribuido por emmanuel Asomba el 13 Oct , 2006 58. Special Edition of Maitreyee (June 2006) http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077229 "The annual global Human Development Report (HDR) was first launched in 1990 with the single goal of putting people back at the center of the development process in terms of economic debate, policy and advocacy. This goal was both massive and simple,... Contribuido por emmanuel Asomba el 13 Oct , 2006 59. Operational Poverty Targeting in Peru - Proxy Means Testing with Non-Income Indicators http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077186 "The measurement of per capita daily expenditures relative to a monetary poverty line, also known as 'sophisticated means testing', is the most widely used approach to poverty assessment. However, it is reliant on the implementation of time- and... Contribuido por emmanuel Asomba el 13 Oct , 2006 60. International Migration and Development http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077247 International migration has recently been moving up the UN agenda. Refugees from the violent conflicts in many countries demand our attention because of their desperation. On the other hand, tens of millions of people have voluntarily migrated... Contribuido por John Daly el 13 Oct , 2006 61. Position Paper on "Honor Killings" http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077512 "Due to recent media attention, the problem of 'honor killings' has come under increasing global scrutiny. In various countries throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East and parts of South Asia, women who bring dishonor to their families... Contribuido por Laura Allen el 17 Oct , 2006 62. NIAID Announces New Campaign to Raise Awareness of Preventive HIV Vaccine Research http://topics.developmentgateway.org/pop/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1077658 The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health, today (11 October 2006) announced the launch of the "Be The Generation" public awareness campaign, challenging young Americans to be the... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 17 Oct , 2006

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