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Reports, guidelines and projects

• Adolescent and Youth Reproductive Health in Bangladesh : Status, Policies, Programs and Issues
  The purpose of this paper is to highlight the reproductive health status of adolescent boys and girls. The paper begins with social issues - the issues that need to be addressed to meet the reproductive health needs of adolescents. It also outlines specific ARH issues, legal and policy issues related to ARH, it's operational barriers and concludes with recommendations to improve the situation in Bangladesh.
• Adolescent and Youth Reproductive Health in Indonesia : Status, Policies, Programs and Issues
  This paper highlights the reproductive health status of adolescents in Indonesia. It begins by discussing the social context and gender socialization that set girls and boys on separate lifetime paths in terms of life expectations, educational attainment, job prospects, labor force participation, reproduction and duties in the household. The report also outlines laws and policies that pertain to ARH and discusses information and service delivery programs that provide reproductive health information and services to adolescents.
• Banking on Reproductive Health: The World Bank's Support for Population, the Cairo Agenda and the Millenium Development Goals
  This report, by Joanne Epp and Karin Ringheim suggests that the World Bank should play a more central role of leadership in promoting universal access to reproductive health as a necessary, efficient and just means of achieving all the Millennium Development Goals.
• Better Births Initiative
  The Better Births Initiative aims to ensure that clinical policies and procedures used in essential obstetric services are grounded in reliable research evidence. It is targeted at healthcare providers and assists them in understanding research evidence, making decisions about best practice, and establishing implementation procedures to assure change.
• Building Connections: Understanding Relationships and Networks to Improve Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs
  Building Connections describes the structures and dynamics of relationships and networks, and of program approaches that influence youth behaviors. This tool also suggests techniques used to conduct different types of social network analysis according to a program's needs.
• Campaign for Children's Health Care
  The Campaign for Children's Health Care is dedicated to making high-quality, affordable health insurance coverage for all of America's children a top national priority. It is a diverse group of organizations who represent health care providers, educators, parents, advocates, and others, all of whom share a commitment to our nation's children. The Campaign coordinates public education efforts across the country to demonstrate the importance of health insurance for children and families and to show why national action is needed to expand coverage for children.
• Changing a Harmful Social Convention: Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting
  This Innocenti Digest examines the prevalence of FGM/C and its social dynamics. It provides an explanation as to why the practice persists and of the elements necessary for its abandonment. It also takes stock of progress to date, identifies what works and what does not, and provides direction regarding the most successful strategies to promote the abandonment of FGM/C.
• Fertility Regulation Behaviors and their Costs: Contraception and Unintended Pregnancies in Africa and Eastern Europe & Central Asia
  "The report consists of three parts: global trends in fertility, contraceptive use and unintended pregnancies; studies of two regions (Africa and Eastern Europe/Central Asia) and two countries (Nigeria and Kazakhstan) on the costs of fertility regulation behaviors and provider attitudes towards contraceptive use. Fertility levels have declined steadily over the last three decades but the pace of decline varies among regions. Countries that have achieved a high level of contraceptive use have reached a lower fertility level. A gap continues to exist between actual and desired family size, resulting in unintended pregnancies. More than one-third of the pregnancies that occur are unintended and one in five pregnancies ends in induced abortion. Almost half of all induced abortions are unsafe, and the proportion of all abortions that are unsafe has increased during the last decade. Sixty-six percent of unintended pregnancies occur among women who are not using any method of contraception."
• Guide to Research Findings on the Cairo Consensus
  "This guide to research findings on the implementation of the Cairo Consensus provides a tool for locating some of the materials published since 1994 on the major issues outlined in the ICPD Programme of Action. The topics included in the guide are: mobilizing public and private resources; population, environment, and sustainable development; reproductive health/family planning; reproductive health in emergency situations; reproductive rights/human rights; and the role of the private sector."
• HIV Prevention in Maternal Health Services Programming Guide and Training Guide
  These guides, published by United Nations Population Fund and Engender Health are designed to strengthen the integration of HIV prevention into maternal health services and build the capacity of health workers to address the prevention needs of pregnant and postpartum women, enabling programme planners, health managers, and trainers to plan, design and monitor HIV prevention interventions for pregnant and postpartum clients and train health providers to ensure they have the capacity to deliver HIV/AIDS services.
• Making It Happen; Using Distance Learning to Improve Reproductive Health Provider Performance
  A practical how-to guide for developing distance learning programs in low-resource settings. Making It Happen presents a clear, step-by-step path from conceptualization through evaluation, with detailed examples from program experiences in developing countries.
• Male circumcision: Evidence and implications
  "This [World Bank Working Paper of August 2008] report summarizes the evidence linking male circumcision and HIV infection, and assesses the implications for HIV prevention programs. The practical implications are especially pertinent in countries with very high HIV prevalence and low circumcision rates - including South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia."
• Managing Complications in Pregnancy and Childbirth: A Guide for Midwives and Doctors
  Published by WHO in 2003, this manual is written for midwives and doctors in district hospitals who are responsible for the care of women with complications associated with pregnancy, childbirth or the immediate postpartum period, including immediate problems with newborn babies.
• Measuring maternal mortality: An overview of opportunities and options for developing countries
  "There is currently an unprecedented expressed need and demand for estimates of maternal mortality in developing countries. This has been stimulated in part by the creation of a Millennium Development Goal that will be judged partly on the basis of reductions in maternal mortality by 2015. Since the launch of the Safe Motherhood Initiative in 1987, new opportunities for data capture have arisen and new methods have been developed, tested and used. This paper provides a pragmatic overview of these methods and the optimal measurement strategies for different developing country contexts. There are significant recent advances in the measurement of maternal mortality, yet also room for further improvement, particularly in assessing the magnitude and direction of biases and their implications for different data uses."
• Medical and Service Delivery Guidelines for Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
  These Guidelines are published by the International Planned Parenthood Federation and are intended to improve the knowledge, skills, and confidence of service providers in the delivery of high-quality sexual and reproductive health services. Based on a client-rights approach, the Guidelines offer evidence-based guidance on a range of sexual and reproductive issues, including family planning. Available in a range of languages.
• Mental health aspects of women’s reproductive health: A global review of the literature “This review is a contribution towards raising awareness on an emerging issue of major importance to public health. Its purpose is to provide information on the often neglected interlinks between these two areas so that public health professionals, planners, policy makers, and programme managers may engage in dialogue to consider policies and interventions that address the multiple dimensions of reproductive health in an integrated way. The review comprises the most recent data from both high- and low-income countries on the ways in which women’s mental health intersects with their reproductive health. The framework for analysis employed here is informed by two interconnected concepts: gender and human rights, especially reproductive rights.”
• Practical lessons from global safe motherhood initiatives: time for a new focus on implementation
  “…The time is right to shift the focus of the global maternal health community to the challenges of effective implementation of services within districts. 20 years after the launch of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, the community has reached a broad consensus about priority interventions, incorporated these interventions into national policy documents, and organised globally in coalition with the newborn and child health communities. With changes in policy processes to emphasise country ownership, funding harmonisation, and results-based financing, the capacity of countries to implement services urgently needs to be strengthened. In this article, four global maternal health initiatives draw on their complementary experiences to identify a set of the central lessons on which to build a new, collaborative effort to implement equitable, sustainable maternal health services at scale. This implementation effort should focus on specific steps for strengthening the capacity of the district health system to convert inputs into functioning services that are accessible to and used by all segments of the population…”.
• Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty
  This report from UNIFEM makes the case that strengthening women's economic security is critical to efforts to reduce poverty and promote gender equality, and that decent work is basic to economic security. It argues for an increased focus on women's informal employment as a key pathway to reducing poverty and strengthening women's economic security.
• Reproductive Health During Conflict and Displacement - a guide for programme managers
  This guide which is presented by the Department of Reproductive Health and Research of the World Health Organisation (WHO) is designed to provide a tool that defines how to develop practical and appropriately-focused reproductive health programmes during each phase of conflict and displacement—pre-conflict, conflict, stabilization and post-conflict.
• Safe Passages to Adulthood
  All over the world, young people experience a disproportionate share of unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, and other sexual and reproductive health problems. Developed with the support of the UK Department for International Development (DfID), Safe Passages to Adulthood is a programme of research into young people’s sexual and reproductive health in poorer country settings. Programme activities aim to increase the capacity of developing country partners to generate new knowledge and develop systematic guidelines for action at programme and policy levels.
• Sexually Transmitted and Other Reproductive Tract Infections: A Guide to Essential Practice
  This WHO publication is intended to assist health care managers and practitioners in resource-limited reproductive health care settings around the world to meet the needs of individuals who may be at risk of reproductive tract infections (RTIs).
• The Lancet Series on Sexual and Reproductive Health: Executive Summary of Lancet Sexual and Reproductive Health Series
  "Worldwide, the burden of disability and premature death due to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) problems is enormous—and growing. Unsafe sex is the second most important cause of morbidity or untimely mortality among the world’s poorest populations, and the ninth most important cause in developed countries. Despite spectacular increases in access to contraceptives globally, more than 120 million couples have an unmet need for modern contraception and an estimated 80 million women have unintended or unwanted pregnancies, with 45 million ending in abortion annually. Pregnancy-related complications kill more than half a million women every year, and leave approximately 210 million women with disabilities… The estimated 135 million women who have undergone female genital mutilation are at risk of obstetric morbidity, stillbirth, and neonatal death. An estimated 340 million new cases of STIs and 5 million new HIV infections occur annually. Violence against women is an underlying risk factor for many of these SRH problems. Women living in violent relationships are often unable to make sexual and reproductive choices and are at greater risk of early and unwanted pregnancy and STIs."
• UNFPA Annual Report 2004
  This report highlights the UNFPA's efforts to improve reproductive health, ensure safe motherhood, address population issues, prevent HIV/AIDS and help people in crises. It includes examples of UNFPA's work in every region, as well as facts and figures on the kinds of projects it supports.
• UNFPA Annual Report 2005
  This report provides an overview of UNFPA challenges and achievements throughout the year, in policy and programming and in efforts to harmonize cooperation with United Nations partners. The report presents UNFPA response to the tsunami and earthquake disasters in Asia, features efforts to end obstetric fistula and expand access to reproductive health, and addresses work with governments to integrate population trends and dynamics into their development plans. It also notes UNFPA endorsement of the Global Task Team’s recommendations and an intensified HIV/AIDS response, and introduces the new global Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health.
• WHO Multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence against women: initial results on prevalence, health outcomes and women's responses
  “….This report presents initial results based on interviews with 24 000 women. The study was implemented by WHO, in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), PATH, USA, research institutions and women's organizations in the participating countries. Report findings document the prevalence of intimate partner violence and its association with women's physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health. Data is included on non-partner violence, sexual abuse during childhood and forced first sexual experience. Information is also provided on women’s responses: Whom do women turn to and whom do they tell about the violence in their lives? Do they leave or fight back? Which services do they use and what response do they get? ..."

Educational resources

• Contraception Online
  Contraception Online is an educational resource from Baylor College of Medicine for health care providers and health educators seeking the latest information on reproductive health, family planning, and contraception. It's goal is to explore important issues related to reproductive health in a scientific and objective manner in order to provide up-to-date and practical educational tools and materials. The resources at Contraception Online can be used for self-study or to educate others about reproduction and a range of contraceptive methods.
• GenderStats
  GenderStats is an electronic database of gender statistics and indicators provided by the World Bank. It offers statistical and other data in modules on several subjects. The data in each module is presented in ready-to-use format. Users have the option of saving the country views in Excel (or another spreadsheet software) to customize them for their own reports. Data sources for GenderStats include national statistics, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys.
• Johns Hopkins University Health Communications Partnership
  HCP's Media/Materials Clearinghouse is an international resource for all those with an interest in health communication materials: pamphlets, posters, audiotapes, videos, novelty items, training materials, job aids, electronic media and other media/materials designed to promote public health.
• Not-2-Late.com: The Emergency Contraception Website
  This site is operated by Office of Population Research at Princeton University. It provides access to information on emergency contraception, including a database of providers, information about different methods of emergency contraception, a bibliography of references and links to educational and promotional material
• Obstetric Fistula: Ending the Silence, Easing the Suffering
  Obstetric Fistula is a devastating medical condition affecting millions of women in developing countries. This site provides extensive information about the condition including it's causes and consequences, effective means of addressing the problem, case studies and a bibliography of further readings on the subject.
• Reproductive Health Gateway
  The Reproductive Health Gateway provides access to a group of websites concerned with reproductive health. RH Gateway is a project of the Health Information and Publications Network. Participants in the Working Group are organizations that work with the Global Health Bureau of the United States Agency for International Development. The websites of many Working Group participants form the core of RH Gateway. In addition, the Working Group reviews and selects other sites for inclusion on the basis of relevance and accuracy.
• Reproductive Health Information on the Australian Development Gateway
  This page provides information about reproductive health issues for men and women, including fact sheets about sexually transmitted diseases, details about sexual health training courses and reports with details of research results and programs that promote sexual health in Asia Pacific countries.
• Reproductive Health Outlook
  The Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO) website provides up-to-date summaries of research findings, program experience, and clinical guidelines related to key reproductive health topics, as well as analyses of policy and program implications. An important objective of RHO is to help users link with quality online resources and collaborate with colleagues around the world.
• Sex Work Toolkit
  This Toolkit, published by the World Health Organisation is intended as a resource to guide the development and implementation of effective HIV interventions in diverse sex work settings. It outlines key steps and issues and provides links to many documents, manuals, reports, and research studies containing more detailed and in-depth information.
• Synergising HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights - A Manual for NGOs
  Published by Aidsnet, the Danish NGO network on Aids and Development this manual provides guidance to NGOS and their partners in low income countries on how NGOs can integrate HIV/AIDS related issues with those of sexual and reproductive health and human rights. It includes concrete examples and cases of good practices or common approaches, and links to more information and other user-friendly resources and tools, including websites, existing guides and training manuals.
• Women and Health Learning Package
  This package consists of a series of training modules on topics ranging from violence against women and contraceptive practices to adolescent health and unwanted pregnancy/unsafe abortion. These women’s health modules, along with others still in development, make up the Women and Health Learning Package (WHLP), a free e-learning resource for use by educators, health providers and health sciences students (particularly medical and nursing students) in developing countries.

Organisations and Networks

UN and multinational

• Interagency Gender Working Group
  The Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG), established in 1997, is a network comprising nongovernmental organizations, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), cooperating agencies, and the Bureau for Global Health of USAID. The IGWG promotes gender equity within population, health, and nutrition programs with the goal of improving reproductive health/HIV/AIDS outcomes and fostering sustainable development.
• National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention
  The The US National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP) is responsible for public health surveillance, prevention research, and programs to prevent and control human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB).
• WHO HIV/AIDS Programme
  WHO and its HIV/AIDS department work within the family of UNAIDS Cosponsors to facilitate multisectoral efforts to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. WHO specifically serves as the convening agency within the United Nations system for HIV/AIDS treatment, care and support as well as for preventing the mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
• WHO Reproductive Health and Research
  This is the main instrument within the United Nations system for research in human reproduction, HRP brings together health care providers, policy-makers, scientists, clinicians and consumer and community representatives to identify and address priorities for research aimed at improving sexual and reproductive health.
  

Government

• National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention
  The The US National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP) is responsible for public health surveillance, prevention research, and programs to prevent and control human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB).

Non Government

• Asia Pacific Alliance Advancing the ICPD Agenda
  The Asia-Pacific Alliance: Advancing the ICPD Agenda (APA/ICPD) is a network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), overseas development agencies (ODAs), and philanthropic foundations from donor countries in the Pacific Rim (Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, and the United States). It promotes effective implementation of the Programme of Action adopted by the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994 at Cairo.
• Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
  The ARHP is an international nonprofit association of health care providers, researchers, and educators. This site offers comprehensive information and education on all reproductive health topics to healthcare professionals, the public, policymakers, and the media.
• Australian Reproductive Health Alliance
  The Australian Reproductive Health Alliance's mission is to promote public support for enhanced reproductive and sexual health in Australia and internationally, and promote the advancement of the status of women and girls. Where appropriate the organisation identifies and supports specific development projects which promote reproductive health, and enhance the status of women and girls, either working independently or with partner organisations. It also aims to promote, maintain and extend the interest of ARHA members in a broad range of issues concerning reproductive health and its role in development.
• Center for Communications Programs
  The Center for Communication Programs is part of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. CCP's mission is to partner with organizations worldwide to: Design and implement strategic communication programs that influence political dialogue, collective action, and individual behavior; Enhance access to information and the exchange of knowledge that improve health and health care; and Conduct research to guide program design, evaluate impact, test theories, and advance knowledge in health communication.
• Center for Reproductive Health
  The Center for Reproductive Rights uses the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental right that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect and fullfill. The Center believes that Laws and legal norms will, in the end, determine whether women will be free to decide whether and when to have children; whether they will have access to contraception, abortion, healthcare information, and safe pregnancy care; and whether they will make reproductive healthcare choices without coercion.
• Constella Futures
  Constella Futures, formerly Futures Group, is the international development unit of Constella Group. Specializing in the design and implementation of public health and social programs for developing countries, the unit has implemented projects in more than 100 countries. Constella Futures works with government agencies, foundations, corporations, and nongovernmental organizations, to address conditions that compromise the well-being of people around the world.
• Contraceptive Research and Development CONRAD
  CONRAD is dedicated to improving reproductive health, particularly in developing countries where the need is greatest, by supporting the development of better, safer, and more acceptable methods to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS. The program offers both financial support as well as technical assistance for the various stages of product development.
• EU/UNFPA Reproductive Health Initiative for Youth in Asia (Rhiya)
  This initiative intends to provide financial support to reproductive health activities and services in Asia. It's main strategy is to involve international, regional and local non-profit organisations in its implementation and hace these work together towards a common goal. With this approach the Initiative hopes to bring reproductive health services within reach of populations in South and South-East Asia that are thus far under-served.
• Engender Health
  EngenderHealth is an international nonprofit organization that works to make reproductive health services safe, available, and sustainable for women and men worldwide. It works around the globe in partnership with local governments and nongovernmental agencies to help health care workers, administrators, physicians, hospital staff, and counselors deliver high-quality health care services in some of the world's poorest countries.
• EuroNGOs
  EuroNGOs is a European network of non-governmental organisations that cooperate in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights, population and development. It's major aim is the provision of an informal forum for the exchange of ideas, information and experience in the fields of sexual and reproductive health and rights, population and development, in accordance with an agreed workplan.
• Family Care International
  FCI seeks to ensure that women and adolescents have access to the high quality information and services they need to improve their sexual and reproductive health. experience safe pregnancy and childbirth and avoid unwanted pregnancy and HIV infection. FCI works with governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), professional groups, and international agencies to improve sexual and reproductive health in developing countries, by building partnerships at all levels to share ideas and experiences, respond to local needs, maximize effective use of resources, minimize duplication, and encourage replication of successful models and approaches.
• Family Health International
  FHI is a non-profit organisation committed to helping women and men have access to safe, effective, acceptable and affordable family planning methods; preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually trasmitted diseases; and improving the health of women and children.
• Family Planning Management Development
  FPMD works with local partners to strengthen the management of primary health care services, including maternal and child health, STD and HIV/AIDS, and family planning programs. Through improved management and leadership, effective use of resources, and the development of sustainable systems, FPMD helps organizations to become better health care providers.
• Feminist Women's Health Center
  Feminist Women's Health Center is a social change organization dedicated to women's reproductive freedom, health and equality. It is located in Washington State USA and combines direct services with activism (to preserve and expand access to choice and to strengthen the pro-choice movement) and community education (to demystify health information and empower women's health choices.)
• Interact Worldwide
  Interact Worldwide’s mission is to build support for and implement programmes which enable marginalised people to fulfil their rights to sexual and reproductive health. Interact Worldwide’s vision is a world where exercising the right to sexual and reproductive health contributes to the reduction of poverty and a better quality of life.
• International Confederation of Midwives
  The International Confederation of Midwives is an international non-governmental organisation that unites 85 national midwives’ associations from over 75 countries. It both represents and brings together the midwives of the world. The mission of the Confederation is to advance worldwide the aims and aspirations of midwives in the attainment of improved outcomes for women, their newborns and families during the childbearing cycle, using the ICM midwifery philosophy and model of care.
• International Planned Parenthood Foundation
  The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is a non-governmental provider and advocate of sexual and reproductive health and rights. It works in five priority areas: Adolescents, HIV/AIDS, Abortion , Access and Advocacy enabling people to make informed choices about their sexual lives and to receive care, counselling, diagnosis and treatment.
• IntraHealth International
  IntraHealth International is an independent non profit corporation affiliated with The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It aims to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable women and their families around the world by working with traditional and nontraditional cadres of primary providers including nurses, midwives, physicians, volunteer health promoters, pharmacy agents, youth peer educators and skilled birth attendants.
• Irish Family Planning Association
  The IFPA (Irish Family Planning Association) is a national voluntary organisation and registered charity which has been pioneering reproductive health and rights in Ireland since 1969. The IFPA is an advocate of reproductive rights both within Ireland and worldwide. It regularly makes submissions to government and serves as a source of expert knowledge in the areas of reproductive and sexual health.
• IPAS
  Ipas works to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights and to reduce deaths and injuries of women from unsafe abortion. Ipas's global and country programs include training, research, advocacy, distribution of equipment and supplies for reproductive-health care, and information dissemination.
• Japanese Organisation for International Cooperation in Family Planning
  JOICFP is a Japanese NGO that promotes international cooperation in the area of reproductive health and rights. It conducts research on population and reproductive health including family planning (FP)/maternal and child health (MCH) in developing countries, and provides subsidies and other necessary assistance for research and other activities for developing countries, thus contributing to the enhancement of the well-being of communities.
• Magee Women's Research Institute
  The Magee Women's Research Institute performs clinical research trials related to the development of new contraceptive methods and abortion techniques in order to find ways to prevent pregnancies that are safer, easier to use, and more effective than our current methods.
• Marie Stopes International
  The Marie Stopes International Global Partnership provides sexual and reproductive health information and services to people worldwide in countries across Africa, Asian, Australia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. MSI Partners in the developing world work closely with governments, health professionals, other non-government organisations and local communities to design and deliver innovative and high-quality programmes of sexual and reproductive health care that are culturally appropriate and responsive to local needs.
• PATH
  The Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) is an international, non-profit organization. Its mission is to improve health, especially the health of women and children. PATH works in partnership with host-country governments and local agencies to assess health problems and identify and implement creative and effective user-based solutions. PATH programs address a wide variety of topic areas: child and maternal health, reproductive health and family planning, communicable diseases, and financing.
• Pathfinder International
  Pathfinder International is a non profit organisation working with institutions throughout the world to create and improve access to the fullest possible range of quality information and services to enable individuals and couples to make informed reproductive choices.
• Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
  The mission of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health(PRCH) is to enable physicians to take a more active and visible role in support of universal reproductive health. PRCH is committed to ensuring that all people have the knowledge, access to quality services, and freedom of choice to make their own reproductive health decisions.
• Policy Project
  The POLICY Project works with host-country governments and civil society groups to achieve a more supportive policy environment for family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), HIV/AIDS, and maternal health. Multisectoral engagement, community and organizational empowerment, and promotion of human rights and gender equality characterize POLICY's approaches to better reproductive health policies and programs.
• Population Action International
  Population Action International’s mission is to advance universal access to family planning and related health services, and to educational and economic opportunities, especially for girls and women, in order to improve the lives of individual women and their families, while also slowing the world’s population growth and helping preserve the environment.
• Population Council
  The Population Council is an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that conducts biomedical, social science, and public health research. For more than 50 years, the Council has been evaluating and developing sustainable approaches to enhancing people's health and well-being in the following areas: Biomedicine; Gender and Family Dynamics ; HIV/AIDS; Infants and Children; Quality of Care; Reproductive Health; Social Science; Strengthening Local Resources and Transitions to Adulthood.
• Population Reference Bureau
  Population Reference Bureau informs people about the population dimensions of important social, economic, and political issues. It's mission is to be the leader in providing timely and objective information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications.
• RAINBO
  Established in 1994, RAINBO is an African led international non-governmental organisation working on issues of women's empowerment, gender, reproductive health, sexual autonomy and freedom from violence as central components of the African development agenda. RAINBO specifically strives to enhance global efforts to eliminate the practice of Female Circumcision / Female Genital Mutilation (FC/FGM) through facilitating women's self-empowerment and accelerating social change.
• Reproline - Reproductive Health Online
  Reproline is a family planning, contraception and training website developed by JHPIEGO, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University. It is intended as a resource for healthcare providers and reproductive health trainers
• Reproductive Health Response in Conflict (RHRC) Consortium
  The Reproductive Health Response in Conflict (RHRC) Consortium is dedicated to the promotion of reproductive health among all persons affected by armed conflict. The RHRC Consortium promotes sustained access to comprehensive, high quality reproductive health programs in emergencies and advocates for policies that support reproductive health of persons affected by armed conflict.
• Safe Motherhood.org
  Safe Motherhood was established with the aim of promoting the health of women and newborns, especially the most vulnerable. The organisation works to strengthen maternal and newborn health efforts at the global, regional, and national levels, in the context of equity, poverty reduction, and human rights.
• Sexual Health and Family Planning Australia
  Sexual Health and Family Planning Australia provides a wide range of sexual and reproductive health services that focus on prevention, early intervention, diagnosis and treatment, community and professional education for a large number of Australians.
• YouthNet
  "YouthNet is a global program to improve reproductive health and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among people 10 to 24 years old. Most importantly, it is a collaboration with the young people whose lives it is designed to improve. But it also includes the energy, insight, and experience of parents, schoolteachers, employers, policymakers, the media, health professionals, nongovernmental organizations, religious and community leaders, and other youth networks"

Academic Institutions with particular focus in this area

• School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW
• School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW - Research

Key Conferences, conference and workshop reports

Coming conferences

Conference reports

• Reaching Men to Improve Reproductive Health for All
  This conference held in Sept 2003 was hosted by USAID's Interagency Gender Working Group. The conference discussed programming for constructive male involvement in reproductive health. This page includes an Implementation Guide, designed to inform, facilitate and encourage providers, researchers and trainers on how to implement reproductive health programs that involve men while mainstreaming gender. All conferene presentations are available from this site in both Powerpoint and Pdf format.

Journals, Newsletters, Forums

• Family Health International's Network
  Network is a quarterly scientific bulletin on family planning and reproductive health, distributed in English, French and Spanish to readers worldwide. Network is designed to serve developing country health providers, health educators, policy-makers and the media.
• Population Reports
  Population Reports are designed to provide an accurate and authoritative overview of developments in the population field. They are published four times a year by the Population Information Program of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
• PlanetWire
  PlanetWire is a newsroom for journalists who want the latest information about reproductive health rights and services, maternal and child health, equality in education, women's empowerment, youth participation and a healthy environment. This website provides reporters with news releases, media analysis, story ideas, facts and figures, expert spokespeople, information from organisations and government agencies to provide background on these issues.
• Reproductive Health Gateway
  This site provides links to reproductive Health Related Newsletters, Magazines & Journals Available Free on the Web
• Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender
  "Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender is a quarterly, 16-page magazine on HIV/AIDS from the perspective of gender, sexuality and sexual health. It is the successor to Sexual Health Exchange, which had been published by the Royal Tropical Institute in the Netherlands for many years, in collaboration with SAfAIDS (Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service), Zimbabwe."
• Studies in Family Planning
  Studies in Family Planning is a peer-reviewed international quarterly concerned with all aspects of reproductive health, fertility regulation, and family planning programs in both developing and developed countries. Each issue contains original research articles, reports, a commentary, book reviews, and a data section with findings for individual countries from the Demographic and Health Surveys

Bibliographies, Libraries

Public health bookshops

• Public Health bookshop