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- Selected practice recommendations for contraceptive use
- Published: 2002
Provides guidance for how to safely and effectively use contraceptive methods once they have been deemed medically appropriate. Provides selected evidence-based practice recommendations for use by policy makers, program managers, the scientific community, and national family planning or reproductive health programs. Recommendations are organized into 23 questions.
- Islam and family planning
- Published: 2004
Provides an overview of the family planning and modern contraception policies of Muslim countries. Reviews Islamic jurisprudence and justifications for sanctioning family planning and concludes that Islam should not be considered a barrier toward the increased use of contraception in Islamic communities.
- Planned pregnancies and parenthood
- Published: 1999
Presents the International Confederation of Midwives' position statement regarding the midwives role in women's right to control her own fertility.
- A family planning library manual
- offers guidelines for establishing an effective family planning library collection. While originally conceived as a classification manual for use among the Planned Parenthood affiliates, the guidelines for organizing and maintaining a small library as presented in this manual, can be regarded as a tool for all small special libraries.Published: 1994
- Network: family planning and STIs
- http://www.fhi.org/en/RH/Pubs/Network/v20_4/index.htm
- Gives information on ways to provide dual protection against both pregnancy and STIs. Also addresses the needs of HIV-positive women, ways to reach youth and men, and a contraceptive method table that compares each method's ability to protect against STIs. (See Details)Published: 2001
- Network: family planning and women's lives
- http://www.fhi.org/en/RH/Pubs/Network/v18_4/index.htm
- Examines how family planning use affects women's lives in many ways, including their opportunities for paid employment or a better education, their sense of self-esteem, and a variety of other "quality of life" concerns. (See Details)Published: 1998
- The human right to family planning and sexual and reproductive health
- Charts the evolution of rights in the area of sexual and reproductive health. It quotes international endorsements of the right to family planning, and reproductive and sexual health information and services over the last 25 years.Published: 1996
- 20 common problems in women's health care
- Looks at the twenty conditions that most often prompt women to seek health care. Provides relevant pathophysiology, patient evaluation procedures, diagnostics, and treatment.Published: 2000
- Investing in the future
- Records the events of the International Planned Parenthood Federation's sixth Members' Assembly which took place in New Delhi, India, in October 1992. The report develops the goals and objectives of the Vision 2000 Strategic Plan. The three goals involve: advancing the human right to make free and informed choices on reproductive and sexual health; responding to the unmet need for family planning, sexual and reproductive health services; and operating a democratic Federation, providing leadership in planned parenthood. Also includes the Delhi Declaration.Published: 1993
- Meeting challenges: promoting choices - a report on the 40th anniversary IPPF Family Planning Congress
- Summarize the views expressed at the International Family Planning Congress in New Dehli on the issues of family planning, including the empowerment of women, increasing the involvement of men in family planning, education the young, promoting reproductive and sexual health in its widest sense and many others. The report highlights the accomplishments of IPPF as well as what needs to be done. It addresses the advancements over the past 40 years and the current status of safe and acceptable contraceptive methods, and family planning programs. Future challenges. include access to family planning services in developing countries, abortion, AIDS, and STDs, improving contraceptive methods, and obtaining adequate funding for family planning.Published: 1993
