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Reconstructing roles and relations: women’s participation in reconstruction in post-Mitch Nicaragua

01/12/2001

9 pages long

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Reconstructing roles and relations: women’s participation in reconstruction in post-Mitch Nicaragua

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Hurricane Mitch, which took place in October 1998, affected millions of people in Central America, in Honduras and Nicaragua in particular. In Nicaragua, following the hurricane, many civil society organisations mobilised to participate in reconstruction, and to present alternatives to the government’s reconstruction plans. The newly-formed Civil Co-ordinator for Emergency and Reconstruction (CCER), a coalition […]

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Gender, conflict, and building sustainable peace: recent lessons from Latin America

01/12/2001

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Gender, conflict, and building sustainable peace: recent lessons from Latin America

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Latin American experiences of conflict and building sustainable peace have tended to show a clear neglect of a gender analysis of the impacts of conflict and the peace negotiations that end it, much to the detriment of many women and men affected by and involved in the civil conflicts that have ravaged the region during […]

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Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali

01/07/2001

12 pages long

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Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali

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This article is based on a study conducted in Samé, a squatter settlement on the outskirts of Bamako, capital of Mali. The objective was to observe how individuals and their families ensure health and well-being through organising everyday life in their compounds (the basic housing unit in African cities). The compound is mainly a female […]

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Attitudes towards abortion among medical trainees in Mexico City public hospitals

01/07/2001

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Attitudes towards abortion among medical trainees in Mexico City public hospitals

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During the past decade, there has been considerable discussion in Mexico about abortion, and some progress has been made in improving legislation in line with agreements made at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994. The attitude of physicians toward abortion is a topic of interest throughout the world. […]

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Strengthening grandmother networks to improve community nutrition: experience from Senegal

01/07/2001

12 pages long

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Strengthening grandmother networks to improve community nutrition: experience from Senegal

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In societies in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific, older women, or grandmothers, traditionally have considerable influence on maternal and child health at the household level. However, most maternal and child health (MCH) programmes focus exclusively on women of reproductive age. In an MCH project in Senegal, a community study showed that grandmothers and […]

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Safe motherhood in the time of AIDS: the illusion of reproductive ‘choice’

01/07/2001

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Safe motherhood in the time of AIDS: the illusion of reproductive ‘choice’

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Using data from research in Zambia, and drawing on the broader literature on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and gender, this paper examines the difficulties faced by women who wish – or are pressured – to have children, but at the same time want to protect themselves and their children against HIV infection. This article is hosted […]

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Enhancing gender equity in health programmes: monitoring and evaluation

01/07/2001

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Enhancing gender equity in health programmes: monitoring and evaluation

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This article argues for the need to conduct monitoring and evaluation in health programmes and advocacy in a gender-sensitive way, to ensure that interventions fulfil their goal of improving public health, have a beneficial impact on women and on gender relations, and contribute towards human health and poverty eradication. This article is hosted by our […]

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The reproductive health of refugees: lessons beyond ICPD

01/07/2001

12 pages long

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The reproductive health of refugees: lessons beyond ICPD

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The vulnerability of populations affected by conflict or environmental disasters was stressed at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994. In particular, the high mortality and morbidity rates among refugees were emphasised. The ICPD and its Programme of Action have enabled a degree of consensus1 to be reached on […]

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The meaning of reproductive health for developing countries: the case of the Middle East

01/07/2001

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The meaning of reproductive health for developing countries: the case of the Middle East

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The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo in 1994, marked a major change for population and health policies in developing countries by recognising a new ‘reproductive health’ approach, and incorporating it into its Programme of Action. The new approach moved the focus of population policy from population growth and its consequences […]

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Teaching about gender, health, and communicable disease: experiences and challenges

01/07/2001

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Teaching about gender, health, and communicable disease: experiences and challenges

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This article looks at the challenges and opportunities we have encountered while teaching a short course on gender, health, and communicable disease. The course is aimed at health policy-makers, planners, and managers from national ministries, international and national health organisations, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). It ran for the first time in April 2000, with participants […]

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