REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS



Challenging the Culture of Silence
Challenging the Culture of Silence: Building Alliances to End Reproductive Tract Infections (1994).

(New York: International Women's Health Coalition). Report of a meeting of 44 women leaders health professionals journalists social scientists and activists from 20 countries in 1992 co-sponsored by IWHC and the Women and Development Unit University of the West Indies, Barbados. Participants generated a Call to Action to End Reproductive Tract Infections. 33 pages.



Reproductive Tract Infections: Global Impact and Priorities for Women's Reproductive Health (I992).
    Edited by Adrienne Germain, King K. Holmes, Peter Piot, and Judith N. Wasserheit (New York. Plenum Press). Fourteen papers from 1991 conference, "Reproductive Tract Infections in Women in the Third World: National and International Policy Implications" co-sponsored by IWHC and the Rockefeller Foundation held at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center Bellagio, Italy. Provides a pioneering international literature review, country case studies, and policy analysis. (A limited supply is available for free to colleagues in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; please write IWHC for availability. Others may purchase the book from Plenum Press 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA, Attn. Pat Vann.) 395 pages.


Reproductive Tract Infections in Women in the Third World: National and International Policy Implications (1991).
    Adrienne Germain (New York: International Women's Health Coalition). Report of the conference co-sponsored by IWHC and the Rockefeller Foundation, held at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1991. 28 pages.


The Culture of Silence: Reproductive Tract Infections Among Women in the Third World (1991).

    Ruth Dixon-Mueller and Judith N. Wasserheit (New York: International Women's Health Coalition). Reviews fugitive data on RTIs and makes recommendations for action by policy makers and service providers. Available in Spanish and Portuguese. 18 pages.


Special Challenges in Third World Women's Health: Reproductive Tract Infections, Cervical Cancer, and Contraceptive Safety (1990).
    (New York: International Women's Health Coalition). IWHC-sponsored panel presentations by Jose Barzelatto, Susan Holck, Ralph Richart, and Judith N. Wasserheit at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, October 1989. 35 pages.

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