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arrow for change – women’s rights to health
Published in 1997
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The most serious obstacles to women’s health and their health rights are cultural, religious and social biases against women. These lead to barriers in accessing quality health information, education and services and inadequate allocation of governmental and donor resources. Lack of medical knowledge, for example, cannot be used to explain why women in developing countries […]
changing our perspectives, policies and programmes on women’s health in asia and the pacific
Published in 1996
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This bibliography is a selection of abstracts of key materials from ARROW’S Documentation Centre related to the themes of the resource kiT. The materials thus focus on change in conceptual frameworks, perspectives, policies and programmes towards more appropriate and responsive policies and programmes to meet women’s health needs. Practicality was a main selection criteria, thus […]
arrow for change – sexuality: gender and sexual practice
Published in 1996
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Discussions about women’s sexuality, unlike in Western feminist discourses in the seventies, are now likely to be contextualised in duscussions about sexual health, sexual practices, risk-taking and disease prevention. This makes sense in the light of the global pandemic in which five million women have become infected by HIV, most commonly during unprotected heterosexual intercourse. […]