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ADDRESSING
OBSTETRIC FISTULAS
When
people first learn about obstetric fistulas and
their disastrous effects, the usual reaction is
to reject hearing more-the subject is just too
unpleasant. Rejection is exactly what happens
to fistulas' survivors. An obstetric fistula is
an injury of a woman's birth canal that most often
occurs when a very young girl is pregnant and
experiences a long and obstructed labor. The baby
usually dies. The mother, if she survives, suffers
tissue damage to the birth canal that becomes
an opening between the vagina and the bladder
or rectum. This creates a constant leakage of
urine or feces, sometimes both. more>>
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RESPONDING
TO EMERGENCY SITUATIONS
People
who survive crises such as armed conflict and
natural disaster need food, water, shelter and
health services including reproductive health
care. During extreme situations, refugees, displaced
persons and others affected by these emergency
conditions are in desperate need of reproductive
health services because halth risks increase and
health facilities are often damaged or destroyed.
Giving birth can be a matter of life and death.
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PREVENTING
HIV/AIDS
In
the wake of the June 2001 United Nations Special
Session on HIV/AIDS, world attention centered
on the Secretary General's call for a special
Global AIDS and Health Fund of US $7-10 billion
per year to combat the pandemic. But this Fund
is only one crucial part of an adequate response.
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PROVIDING
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ESSENTIALS
Universal
access to reproductive health care, a lofty goal
in any terms, is far more complex than "contraceptives
for everybody." It is even more ambitious
with a target date of 2015. But that was the objective
adopted in 1994 by 179 nations at the International
Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).
What is involved? What will it require? more>>
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LINKING
ENVIRONMENT, WOMEN, AND POPULATION
Population,
poverty and pollution are linked in a complex web
of interactions. Without doubt, the health of Earth’s
environment is closely related to demographic trends
and patterns of consumption and waste. But generalizations
about the negative effects of population growth
on the environment have fostered misinterpretations.
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