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The Magnus Hirschfield Archive for Sexology is the world's largest website on human sexuality. It offers an "Open Access" Curriculum in Sexual Health.
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| Poverty Through the Sexuality Lens |
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A healthy population is a productive population. But when a population is poor then poverty prevents the full realisation of sexual and reproductive health rights of many people in Africa. There are calls to policy makers to address the issue, writes Jane Godia
Other newspaper articles by Jane Godia
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| Declaration of the African Population Comission |
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The Sixth Ordinary Session of the African Population Commission took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 16 -17, 2007, with the theme “Implications of the State of the African Population”.
Highlighted in the Declaration issued at the end of the session were the Commission’s concerns that Africa was not on track to reach the MDGs; that HIV and AIDS were continuing to have a devastating impact on the social, political and economic development of the continent; and that the debate on population and development was being confined to population size and growth rate.
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| Maputo Plan of Action 2007 - 2010 |
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The Maputo Plan of Action for the Operationalisation of the Continental Policy Framework for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, 2007-2010 is an African Union (AU) instrument aimed at helping women to rapidly access reproductive health care facilities through the integration of public health care facilities. It is built on nine action areas: Integration of sexual and reproductive health services into PHC, repositioning family planning, youth-friendly services, unsafe abortion, quality safe motherhood, resource mobilization, commodity security and monitoring and evaluation.
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| Young Adolescents' Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights |
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This brief – part of the International Women's Health Coalition's series on young adolescents ages 10-14 – uses evidence on their sexual and reproductive knowledge and behaviors to argue for more responsive policies and programs in sub-Saharan Africa, and globally.
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