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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.
- 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
- Contraceptive choice: worldwide access to family planning: 1997 report on progress towards world population stabilization
- Analyzes the accessibility and affordability of birth control methods, based on two data sets - one for developing countries, the other for developed countries. Also contains wall-chart.Published: 1997
- Interfaith reflections on women, poverty and population
- Presents speeches given at the 1996 conference entitled Women, Poverty and Population: A Call to Engagement for People of Faith. Discusses issues of poverty, population growth, consumption, and the well-being of women and children. Aims to encourage people of faith to transform their passive concern for these issues into active participation through measures that will help to better the lives of people throughout the world.Published: 1996
- Women's voices, women's lives: the impact of family planning: a synthesis of findings from the Women's Studies Project, Family H
- http://www.fhi.org/en/rh/pubs/wsp/synthesis/index.htm
- Examines the impact of family planning on women's lives through the process of surveys, focus groups and in-depth interviews in ten different countries. (See Details)Published: 1998
- 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
