Reproductive health (RH) problems account for a significant part of the burden of disease suffered by poor people in … developing countries. Poor women and men are more afflicted with RH problems and often lack access to minimal RH care even when … reproductive health including increasing girls' education, preventing and managing sexually transmitted disease, providing …

and Health Surveys (1995–2001 and 2001–2006) for 25 low-income countries, this study examined trends in where women … institutional settings in ten countries, mostly public facilities. In the other 15 countries, the majority of births were in women … countries saw an increase of more than 10 percentage points. More urban women and more in the richest (least poor) quintile gave …

Women’s health and noncommunicable diseases are both generating increasing interest within the international community … Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health and the Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on … have not been adequately explored and, as a result, the health needs of women beyond reproduction remain largely …

Maternal and child health is severely impacted by adverse birth outcomes leading to a public health concern. A whole … relationship between women's autonomy, the perpetration of intimate partner violence in households, women's paid work status and … their consequent impact on birth outcomes. Noting this, we ask how intimate partner violence and women's work status …

Article 14 of the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women. The provisions relate to women’s rights to fertility … Comment’s potential to promote women’s sexual and reproductive rights in multiple ways. The General Comment’s human rights …

This paper addresses the challenges faced in mainstreaming the teaching of sexual and reproductive health and rights … into public health education. For this paper, we define sexual and reproductive health and rights education as including … and social justice, addressing sexuality, and placed within a broader context of health systems and global health. Using a …