International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics

The sixth edition of the World Report on Women’s Health – published every three years to tie in with the FIGO World Congress of Gynecology & Obstetrics – 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.  The President-Elect deeply appreciates the assistance of the Alliance for Women’s Health, the IJGO Editorial Board, Editors of previous such issues — the President, Dr Dorothy Shaw, and Past Presidents Dr Arnaldo Acosta, Dr Shirish Sheth, Professor Markku Seppälä and Professor Mahmoud Fathalla — as well as Dr Tim Johnson and the Journal office, especially Miss Clare Last.  This edition of the World Report on Women’s Health was produced with the generous support of UNFPA, the Ford Foundation, and Ipas. It was very appropriate to have more than 40% of the authors women with a balanced regional representation.  The table of contents of this special issue of the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics is as follows: 

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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International Journal of Gynecology and 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 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