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| InfoShare Partner: Guttmacher Institute |
| Publication Date: December 2007 |
| Update Date: January 2008 |
| Type of Document: Article/Report/Paper |
| Topics: Reproductive health, general |
| Region: Latin America/Caribbean |
| Language: English |
| Additional information: Also in the December 2007 issue of International Family Planning Perspectives:
In “Correlates of Premarital Relationships Among Unmarried Youth in Pune District, Maharashtra , India ,” authors Mallika Alexander et al. analyze a community-based study of 15–24-year-olds in an urban slum and a rural area of Pune District, Maharashtra , and find that strict parental supervision had no bearing on the likelihood of young people entering premarital relationships. Accordingly, 17–24% of young men and 5–8% of young women surveyed had engaged in a romantic relationship. http://guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3315007.html
At one public university in Santiago , Chile , nearly one-third of female students participating in an anonymous survey had experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact since the age of 14, according to “Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Sexual Victimization in College Women in Chile,” by Jocelyn A. Lehrer et al. The authors found that in more than half the reported cases of rape or attempted rape and almost one-quarter of other incidents of sexual violence, both the victim and the perpetrator had used drugs or alcohol. http://guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3316807.html
In “Family Planning Policies and Their Impacts on the Poor: Peru’s Experience,” authors James N. Gribble et al. examine the evolution of Peru’s national family planning policies and programs from 1985 to 2004, demonstrating how efforts to provide coverage for all women, regardless of their financial resources, can end up curtailing public services among those who need them the most.http://guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3317607.html
According to “Introducing Sustainable Vasectomy Services in Guatemala,” contraceptive use in the country has increased rapidly over the past 20 years, with sterilization the most commonly used method. The burden of pregnancy protection however, falls most heavily on women: Although 17% of couples rely on female sterilization, only 1% rely on vasectomy. In this special report, authors Ricardo Vernon et al. detail how the country’s Ministry of Health developed a sustainable model for vasectomy services through an approach that combined promotion and public education with training of doctors in no-scalpel vasectomy. http://guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3318207.html |
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Half of Providers in Jamaica and Barbados Have Refused to Dispense Emergency Contraception
Despite widespread belief that emergency contraception is necessary to reduce levels of unintended pregnancy, almost half of more than 400 health care providers surveyed in Jamaica and Barbados have at some point refused to provide the method to women seeking it, according to “Jamaican and Barbadian Health Care Providers’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Emergency Contraceptive Pills,” by Eileen A. Yam et al. The reasons providers gave for refusing the method to eligible women included misperceptions about the overall safety of emergency contraception, negative attitudes toward the method and lack of supplies. This article appears in the December 2007 issue of International Family Planning Perspectives.
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