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arrow for change – HIV/AIDS and SRHR: how has funding fueled the divide?
Published in 2006
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For a pandemic that thrives in poverty and enhances poverty, nothing could be more awash in money than HIV/AIDS. Even though the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has not yet met its goal of raising US$10 billion, there is still US$7 billion more than there was in 2001 when the Fund was just […]
arrow for change – quality health services for women
Published in 2003
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Women are rarely consulted and listened to on their experiences of health service, and their assessment of service quality. Furthermore, women’s feedback is not solicited regularly through systematic research. ARROW’s regional six-country action research on “Women’s Access to Quality Gender-sensitive Services”, found that this was the first time in each study site, that women clients […]
access to quality gender-sensitive health services
Published in 2003
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The Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) is committed to supporting efforts in mainstreaming gender perspectives in health, population and reproductive health policies and programmes. One of ARROW’s strategies for policy advocacy is to build a body of knowledge on action research that focuses on analyses of health policies and programmes. ARROW therefore […]
arrow for change – strengthening community participation and accountability in SRHR
Published in 2003
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Since the 1990s there has been renewed interest in community participation has stemmed from both the neo-liberal agenda of mobilising community resources due to cutback on social budgets, and the emergence of radical debates on rights of citizens to participate in policy decisions, monitoring and evaluation. In the sphere of health, the neo-liberal perspective is […]
arrow for change – eliminating violence against women through health services
Published in 2002
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Violence against women (VAW) in the forms of domestic violence, coercive sex, rape and trafficking in women, remains common in the lives of many Asian and Pacific women, seriously affecting their physical and psycho-social health. The prevalence of domestic violence, for example, ranges from 16 per cent in the Philippines to 67 per cent in […]
arrow for change – the impact of health sector reform on reproductive health
Published in 2000
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In 1994, the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo agreed on women’s right to reproductive health care. Article 7.6 of its Programme of Action states that “All governments should strive to make accessible through the primary health care system reproductive health to all individuals of appropriate ages as soon as possible and no […]