You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women. Jawaharlal Nehru. Women's health issues … and programes have enabled women to lead healthier lives, significant gender-based health based disparieties remain in … making health improvements for women exceedingly difficult. Overall health status of women not only determined by biological …

Women's health issues have attained higher international visibility and renewed political commitment in recent decades …. while targeted policies and programs have enabled women to lead healthier lives, significant gender-based health based … levels are making health improvements for women exceedingly difficult. Overall health status of women not only determined by …

access to professional health care by Malagasy women and girls and prevent teenage pregnancy. This note is accompanied by the …, Malagasy women and girls encounter significant disadvantages across all dimensions of well-being and are unable to access … decision-making, particularly with respect to family formation. Women and girls also appear to be disproportionally affected by …

health in a rural and urban community in Nepal. It shows that adolescent girls in these communities have dreams and … entry point the disjuncture between girls' aspirations and realities. Interventions begun in these communities include youth … restrictive, especially for girls, who are often unable to realise their hopes for continuing education, finding better-paid work …

Adolescent girls need to be considered as a special target group by schemes and development programmes. They need a …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … wanted. The estimates show that for every three aborted girls, one additional girl survives to age five. Investigation of the …