This paper explores low levels of women's health service utilization for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in Nepal. We interviewed 120 women individually and 53 in focus groups. Predictors of lower utilisation were self-medication, consultation with faith healers, inadequate knowledge of STIs, belief about causes, fear, social taboos and stigmatisation, womens secondary status, and presen...

The academy has witnessed several standpoints associated with gender reform. There have been advocates for Womens’ Studies in the tertiary sector. There has been critique of policy developments that variously theorise postmodernism. There have been studies of secondary teachers and studies of early childhood teachers. This paper tells a different story. It presents the grassroots story of the p...

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MOJ Womens Health 2017, 5(4): 00129 Perioperative prophylaxis with Danazol and C1 inhibitor concentrate (C1-INH) are commonly used to prevent angioedema episodes. Anaesthesia management and perioperative implications have been recently commented by some authors [3]. Airway oedema and hypovolemic shock due to the tissue leak of fluids are especially significant in the perioperative period, chall...