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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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
