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Repoliticising sexual and reproductive health and rights [PDF]

open access: yesReproductive Health Matters, 2011
This editorial explores what is happening globally towards achieving sexual and reproductive health and rights. It discusses the perceived fragmentation of work in this field and the de-politicization of the process and the goals involved as the number of issues groups and networks involved has burgeoned.
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What prevents midwifery quality care in Bangladesh? A focus group enquiry with midwifery students

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background With professional midwives being introduced in Bangladesh in 2013, the aim of this study was to describe midwifery students perceptions on midwives’ realities in Bangladesh, based on their own experiences. Method Data were collected through 14
Malin Bogren   +3 more
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Unpacking power dynamics in research and evaluation on social accountability for sexual and reproductive health and rights

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Over the past decade, social accountability for health has coalesced into a distinct field of research and practice. Whether explicitly stated or not, changed power relations are at the heart of what social accountability practitioners seek, particularly
Marta Schaaf   +5 more
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Universal cervical cancer control through a right to health lens: refocusing national policy and programmes on underserved women

open access: yesBMC International Health and Human Rights, 2020
Background Cervical cancer claims 311,000 lives annually, and 90% of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. Cervical cancer is a highly preventable and treatable disease, if detected through screening at an early stage.
Katrina Perehudoff   +15 more
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Refusing disembodiment: abortion and the paradox of reproductive rights in contemporary Italy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Employing insights from Italian sexual difference theory on law and rights, this article examines how both the text of the Italian Abortion Law of 1978 and its operation reveal the contradictions within liberal rights discourse on reproductive freedom ...
Hanafin, Patrick
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From Ideals to Tools: Applying Human Rights to Maternal Health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Alicia Yamin argues that applying human rights frameworks and approaches to maternal health offers strategies and tools to address the root causes of maternal morbidity and mortality within and beyond health systems, in addition to addressing other ...
Yamin, Alicia Ely
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The role of parliamentarians in promoting self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health and rights: applying COVID-19 lens in the Eastern Mediterranean region

open access: yesHealth Research Policy and Systems, 2021
Innovative people-centered care modalities including self-care interventions offer an opportunity to ensure continuity of healthcare services during COVID-19 and in post-COVID-19, as well as contribute to the achievement of universal health coverage ...
Hala Abou-Taleb   +8 more
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Introduction: contextualising “rights” in sexual and reproductive health [PDF]

open access: yesBMC International Health and Human Rights, 2011
The idea for this supplement arose from discussions among a set of research partners associated with the Realising Rights Research Programme Consortium (RR RPC), an international partnership funded by the UK Department for International Development from 200510 that focused on neglected areas of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) [1].
Hilary Standing   +4 more
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‘Virginity is a virtue: prevent early sex’: teacher perceptions of sex education in a Ugandan secondary school [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Sex education is a politically contentious issue in many countries, and there are numerous, competing ideologies relating to the most appropriate methods to teach young people about sexual and reproductive health.
Aggleton, Peter, Iyer, Padmini
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Sexual rights and sexual pleasure: Sustainable Development Goals and the omitted dimensions of the leave no one behind sexual health agenda

open access: yesGlobal Public Health, 2023
This commentary explores the missing discourse of sexual rights and sexual pleasure in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that purport to leave no one behind.
Carmen H. Logie
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