HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health: intersections and implications for national programmes

Health sector reforms: implications for sexual and reproductive health services.

These reforms have also been affected by changes in national and international allocation of resources to the health sector, the attribution of responsibility for health, and the increasing commodification of health in almost all countries [2]. Policy changes, some progressive, others retrogressive, wide-ranging biomedical and social research, and efforts to improve sexual and reproductive heal...

The national Congress of Sexual & Reproductive Health and Counseling in Midwifery

Public-private interactions: Implications for sexual and reproductive health services

Health care reforms in the 1990s promoted government collaboration with the private sector. This was in response to deficiencies in public sector provision, and in the light of the perceived private sector strengths of quality and efficiency. A diverse set of interactions evolved between the public and private sectors across the developing world. This was on the basis of very little information...

Pandemic flu: implications for sexual and reproductive health services.

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2009: 35(4) Introduction A new pandemic of influenza (flu) has been anticipated for some time: the last actual flu pandemic occurred in 1969/1970. [NB. A pandemic is defined as an epidemic of infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region.] Pandemics of flu occur whenever the prevalent circulating strain of the flu virus...

From family planning to sexual and reproductive health: policy implications.

Background Providers of family planning services deserve much credit for the development of the current concept of sexual and reproductive health. With their early recognition that family planning is the centrepiece of matters pertaining to reproduction and sexuality, the term ‘sexual medicine’ was appended whenever family planning was mentioned in the objectives of the National Association of ...