This review article by Mohan Rao unfolds before us the politics behind population control, which is based upon the neo-Malthusian ideology, that has been discarded by not only neo-Ricardians but also by the very scholars like Laxmi Murthy, who was associated with Saheli, once upon a time. It has also been found in the literature that the olden times are not gone when the Western civilized West came to tame the South with a gun in one hand and a Bible in another, simply to civilize 'Man Friday'. more...
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"Every year, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) publishes The State of the World’s Children, the most comprehensive and authoritative report on
the world’s youngest citizens. The State of the World’s Children 2008, published in January 2008, examines the global realities of child survival and the prospects for meeting the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – the targets set by the world community in 2000 for eradicating poverty, reducing child and maternal mor more...
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‘The big gathering of women in the middle of a Bangalore street is not an impromptu one. It is the result of several weeks of interaction with Suraksha's ('to protect') Outreach Educators. In a country where discussion on sexuality and reproductive health is taboo, these women have taken a big step forward. More..’
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'Millennium Development Goal 5 is to improve maternal health, and its bold target is to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters between 1990 and 2015. Still, each year more than half a million women die from pregnancy-related causes that are avoidable. At the present rate of progress, the world will fall well short of the MDG 5 target. This report details progress in maternal health and highlights areas where improvements are needed.'
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The process of linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS needs to work in both directions: traditional sexual and reproductive health services need to integrate HIV/AIDS interventions, and programmes set up to address the AIDS epidemic need to integrate more general services for sexual and reproductive health. The case studies featured in this series have been chosen to demonstrate this two-way flow and to reflect the diversity of integration models. While these case studies focus prim more...
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Nearly 15 years after the conception of the Young Ambassadors of Positive Living (YAPL) programme in the Africa Region, it still remains relevant. Faced with the mounting challenge of HIV/AIDS during the late ’80s and early ‘90s, especially with its ramifications on the youthful and production populations of member countries in the Region, CYP RCA convened a Regional Consultative workshop in Lusaka in 1993 to discuss the way forward. Of special note in the discussions was to be the issue of more...
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A psychologist in a Congo hospital says decades of war have produced a rape-friendly culture with a double standard, Dominique Soguel reports. While perpetrators go unpunished the victims, including children, are ostracized. Amnesty International has issued a new warning. Twenty-five-year-old Mywazo is the proud mother of two. But she doubts her husband can ever accept that about her. Not after what happened.
For three and a half years, beginning in 2004, Mywazo was held hostage in the forest more...
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