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11 Mar 2008
The 52nd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women was held in New York at the UN Headquarters from 26th February - 9th March 2008.
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11 Mar 2008
The achievement of the Millennium Development Goals – including improving maternal health, reducing child mortality, promoting gender equality, and combating HIV/AIDS.....
SARO E-mail Update 48
11 Mar 2008
‘Unmet need strategy’ is a powerful long term plan of action in family planning...
SARO E-mail Update 47
11 Mar 2008
Integrating SRH and HIV services needs making a strong connection between sexuality, contraceptive choice, and STI/HIV prevention...
SARO E-mail Update 46
11 Mar 2008
Advocacy is a communication process through which individuals, groups or communities influence their social environments at local, provincial, national and international levels...
SARO E-mail Update 45
11 Mar 2008
Vision without action is useless. But action without vision does not know where and why to go somewhere. Vision helps organizations with team building and promotes trust and interdependence
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11 Mar 2008
In the context of SRHR services, ‘Unmet need’ can be defined as “women/couples who want to avoid pregnancy (temporarily or indefinitely but are not using any method of contraception”.
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11 Mar 2008
Asia is the world’s largest producer of opium and heroin that has proliferated into epidemics of injecting both opiates and pharmaceuticals and there is no doubt that the HIV and AIDS epidemic in As...
SARO E-mail Update 42
11 Mar 2008
It is important to involve religious leaders and faith based groups in SRHR work as they play crucial roles in the life of people...
SARO E-mail Update 41
11 Mar 2008
World Economic Forum has just released the Global Gender Gap Report 2007...
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11 Mar 2008
Since the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994 there is no doubt that conceptually, great strides have been made in the area of sexual and reproductive...
SARO E-mail Update 39
11 Mar 2008
Rights are minimum conditions/entitlements for the individual to live a life with dignity. Rights enable us to demand, if necessary, what is due without having to beg for benevolence or compassion.
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11 Mar 2008
The IPPF strategic framework and policy on gender equality clearly reflects IPPF’s commitments to working with men, to identify and address their own sexual and reproductive health needs and ensurin...
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11 Mar 2008
Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) is increasing in Pakistan and Afghanistan (in IPPF SAR) as per recent data available in a report titled MDG...
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11 Mar 2008
A substantial number of maternal deaths in South Asia are attributed to complications of unsafe abortion...
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11 Mar 2008
The urban population of Asia will double in less than a generation and the fastest growth will be in the poorer urban areas. The urban poor have higher fertility rates than other urbanites...
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11 Mar 2008
Despite the availability a variety of yardsticks ranging from ‘income poverty’ to ‘capability poverty’, measurement of poverty has always been problematic...
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11 Mar 2008
Rights based SRH organizations incorporate access, quality, effectiveness, efficiency and equity principles in their programs...
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11 Mar 2008
‘Universal Access’ to SRHR implies that everyone will have equal chance of accessing information and services on prevention, diagnosis, counseling, treatment and care...
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11 Mar 2008
The IPPF South Asia Regional Office has put together a set of tools that have been tried and tested for capacity building, advocacy and behavior change communication...