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Measuring women’s experiences during antenatal care (ANC): scoping review of measurement tools

Reproductive Health, 2023
Background The new WHO model for antenatal care (ANC) focuses on improving practice, organisation and delivery of ANC within health systems, which includes both clinical care and women’s experiences of care.
Hedieh Mehrtash, Karin Stein, Maria Barreix, Mercedes Bonet, Meghan A. Bohren, Özge Tunçalp   +5 more
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Building an enabling environment and responding to resistance to sexuality education programmes: experience from Jharkhand, India

Reproductive Health, 2020
Background Despite the substantial need for sexuality education and evidence on its effectiveness, implementing organisations continue to grapple with numerous challenges, especially related to community support and resistance.
Marina Plesons, Aarushi Khanna, Mohammed Ziauddin, Aparajita Gogoi, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli   +4 more
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Density, parasitism, and sexual reproduction are strongly correlated in lake Daphnia populations

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Many organisms can reproduce both asexually and sexually. For cyclical parthenogens, periods of asexual reproduction are punctuated by bouts of sexual reproduction, and the shift from asexual to sexual reproduction has large impacts on fitness and ...
Camden D. Gowler, Mary A. Rogalski, Clara L. Shaw, Katherine K. Hunsberger, Meghan A. Duffy   +4 more
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Progress in adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights globally between 1990 and 2016: what progress has been made, what contributed to this, and what are the implications for the future?

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2020
This commentary is in response to a paper published in the Lancet entitled: “Progress in adolescent health and well-being: tracking 12 headline indicators for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016” (Peter Azzopardi et al, 2019).
Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, Elsie Akwara, Danielle Engel, Marina Plessons, Mengistu Asnake, Sunil Mehra, Bruce Dick, Jane Ferguson   +7 more
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Research and implementation interactions in a social accountability study: utilizing guidance for conducting process evaluations of complex interventions

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background In recent years, researchers and evaluators have made efforts to identify and use appropriate and innovative research designs that account for the complexity in studying social accountability. The relationship between the researchers and those
Joanna Paula Cordero, Vernon Mochache, Victoria Boydell, Mary Awelana Addah, Heather McMullen, Alice Monyo, Sigilbert Mrema, Dela Nai, Donat Shamba, Petrus S. Steyn   +9 more
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ASRHR in Ethiopia: reviewing progress over the last 20 years and looking ahead to the next 10 years

Reproductive Health, 2022
Over the last two decades, improvements in Ethiopia’s socio-economic context, the prioritization of health and development in the national agenda, and ambitious national health and development policies and programmes have contributed to improvements in ...
Elsie Akwara, Kereta Worknesh, Lemessa Oljiira, Lulit Mengesha, Mengistu Asnake, Emiamrew Sisay, Dagem Demerew, Marina Plesons, Wegen Shirka, Azmach Hadush, Venkatraman Chandra-Moulli   +10 more
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From commitment to implementation: lessons learnt from the first National Strategy for the Reduction of Teenage Pregnancy in Sierra Leone

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2020
This study provides insight into the extent to which public commitment to reduce teenage pregnancy made by the President of Sierra Leone made the issue a political priority and the factors that facilitated and hindered this. Using historical observations
Regina Bash-Taqi, Katherine Watson, Elsie Akwara, Emmanuel Adebayo, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli   +4 more
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What drives the shift between sexual and clonal reproduction of Caragana stenophylla along a climatic aridity gradient?

BMC Plant Biology, 2018
Background The reasons that clonal plants shift between sexual and clonal reproduction have persisted as a knowledge gap in ecological literature. We hypothesized that clonal plants’ shifts between sexual and clonal reproduction in different environments
Zhongwu Wang, Lina Xie, Chelse M. Prather, Hongyu Guo, Guodong Han, Chengcang Ma   +5 more
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Sexual Reproduction in Dinoflagellates—The Case of Noctiluca scintillans and Its Ecological Implications

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Noctiluca scintillans is a larger, bioluminescent red-tide dinoflagellate (400–1,000 μm in diameter) that reproduces by sexual or asexual reproduction (binary fission). The process of sexual reproduction in N. scintillans has been thoroughly studied, but
Jeffery Liang-Neng Lee, Kuo-Ping Chiang, Sheng-Fang Tsai, Sheng-Fang Tsai   +3 more
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The moral and social narratives of sexual and reproductive health in Kenya: a case of adolescents and young people pre- and within the MDG era

Reproductive Health, 2020
Background The role of global initiatives in catalyzing change within national contexts is complex and less understood. Addressing adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Kenya requires concerted efforts of both state and non-state actors and more ...
Elsie Akwara, Priscilla Idele
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