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Family Planning and Reproductive Health
What's in a Word?
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Abortion
Issues affecting the availability, safety and legality of abortion.

Resources:

The Guttmacher Institute

Marie Stopes International

Moving Forward

Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Adolescents & Youth
Issues affecting the sexual and reproductive health of the largest generation in history entering their reproductive lives, including early pregnancy and childbearing; STD and HIV prevention; sexual abuse and incest; unsafe abortion, etc.

Resources:

Advocates for Youth

Global Youth Action Network

Rutgers University

AIDS & HIV Care; Policy; Prevention; Treatment
New developments on the progress of providing effective and sustainable care and treatment programmes for people living with AIDS, as well as models for effective prevention strategies. Also covered, the role of the commercial sex industry in prevention and transmission.

Resources:

The Joint UN Programme on AIDS

The Body

International HIV/AIDS Alliance

Birth Control
Practices employed by couples that permit sexual intercourse with reduced likelihood of conception and birth. The term birth control is often used synonymously with such terms as contraception, fertility control, and family planning. But birth control includes abortion to prevent a birth, whereas family planning methods explicitly do not include abortion.

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What are Family Planning and Reproductive Health Programs?
What's in a Word?
Condoms, Female and Male
Developments and trends in male and female condom use, effectiveness, and availability. Socio-cultural, political and religious debates of condom use to prevent STIs, including HIV, and pregnancy are also covered.

Resources:

gURL

The Condom Depot

The Female Health Company


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All terms and definitions, except where noted, are excerpted with permission from the Population Reference Bureau's International Population Handbook, by Arthur Haupt and Thomas Kane, 4th Edition, 1998.