International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics

World Report on Women’s Health 2009 – Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights: 15 years after the International Conference on Population and Development

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The sixth edition of the World Report on Women’s Health – published every three years to coincide with the FIGO World Congress – focuses on Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights: 15 years after the International Conference on Population and Development. 

As in previous years, the articles aim to meet the objectives of FIGO as they reflect on the realities that affect women in most parts of the world and the dire need for advocacy, expertise, and collaboration to promote health, well-being, and the status of women through the Ob-Gyn community, using available evidence.  

This edition was produced with the generous support of UNFPA, the Ford Foundation, and Ipas.

More than 40 per cent of the authors are women, with a balanced regional representation.  

At-a-glance outline:  International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics Volume 106, Issue 2, August 2009

Guest Editor: G Serour  

Editorial  

Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights: 15 years after the International Conference on Population and Development  - Gamal Serour

Reproductive and sexual health rights 

Fifteen years after the International Conference on Population and Development: What have we achieved and how do we move forward?  - Thoraya Ahmed Obaid 

From reproductive choice to reproductive justice  - Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens

Safe motherhood and newborn health 

Rights to safe motherhood and newborn health: Ethical issues  - Jacques Milliez 

Safe motherhood and newborn health: FIGO initiatives 2006–2010  -  André B. Lalonde, Heather McMullen, Amanda C. Lee 

Actions needed to improve maternal health - Eyad Al-Saleh, Gian Carlo Di Renzo 

Women are still deprived of access to lifesaving essential and emergency obstetric care  - Monir Islam, Sachiyo Yoshida 

Safer childbirth: A rights-based approach  - Vincent Boama, Sabaratnam Arulkumaran 

Protecting girls and women from harmful practices affecting their health: Are we making progress? - Jane Cottingham, Eszter Kismodi

Sexual health 

Access to sexual and reproductive health for young people: Bridging the disconnect between rights and reality - Dorothy Shaw  

Women living with HIV and AIDS: Right to prevention, treatment, and health care  - M.J. Titus, Jack Moodley 

Control of cervical cancer:  Women’s options and rights  - Joanna M. Cain, Hextan Ngan, S. Garland, T. Wright; FIGO Working Group on Combating Cervical Cancer 

Protection of sexual and reproductive health rights: Addressing violence against women  - Claudia Garcia-Moreno, Heidi Stöckl 

To have or not to have: The critical importance of reproductive rights to the paradox of population policies in the 21st century  - Gill Greer 

Sexual rights and gender roles in a religious context  - Shahida Zaidi, Arulmozhi Ramarajan, Renzong Qiu, Michal Raucher, Ruth Chadwick, Amna Nossier F

Fertility regulation 

The right to contraception and the wrongs of restrictive services  - Lindsay Edouard 

Rights to emergency contraception  - Edith Weisberg, Ian S. Fraser 

Right to protection from unsafe abortion and postabortion care  - Anibal Faúndes, Kamini Rao,  Leonel Briozzo 

Reproductive healthcare systems should include accessible infertility diagnosis and treatment: An important challenge for resource-poor countries  - Willem Ombelet 

Right to assisted reproductive technology: Overcoming infertility in low-resource countries - Marcia C. Inhorn

Issues in women’s health care 

Healthcare workers and the brain drain  - Gamal I. Serour 

Migration and women’s health   -  Richard M.K. Adanu, Timothy R.B. Johnson 

The role of parliamentarians in promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights  - Christine McCafferty MP 

Women’s groups and professional organizations in advocacy for sexual and reproductive health and rights  - Adrienne Germain, Jerker Liljestrand