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arrow for change – gender-sensitive healthcare
Published in 2000
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Although the 1994 Cairo Programme of Action and the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action made significant gains in women’s rights, gender equality and reproductive health issues, Asia-Pacific health care systems remain insensitive to women’s health needs. Women suffer inequalities in health status and treatment despite the availability of modern medical technology and overall increase in […]
taking up the cairo challenge: country studies in asia pacific
Published in 1999
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There is still a long way to go before the recommendations of the International Conferenceon Population and Development (ICPD)in Cairo 1994 are known, understood and acted upon primarily by government, international agencies and donor organisations in Asia and the Pacific.This was one of the main conclusions of a regional research project Changes in Population Policies […]
arrow for change – older women’s health: facing the challenges
Published in 1999
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In a region where women continue to be valued less than men, older women’s health reflects their life-long experience of discrimination, deprivation and neglect. The older women of Asia-Pacific today face similar situations of poverty, malnutrition, poor health care, physical overwork and unhealthy work environments in their younger years. Along with high infant mortality rates, […]
arrow for change – ensuring young people’s sexual and reproductive rights
Published in 1998
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“Globally, the largest share of adolescents is and will continue to be in Asia, which has 60 per cent of the world’s population”. And “at 1.05 billion, today’s is the biggest-ever generation of young people between 15 and 24, and this age group is rapidly expanding in many countries”. However, in assessing commitments made since […]
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. […]