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Submissions from 2001

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Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning: Malawi 1992, Population Council

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Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning: Mali 1995–1996, Population Council

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Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning: Morocco 1992, Population Council

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Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning: Mozambique 1997, Population Council

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Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning: Namibia 1992, Population Council

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Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning: Niger 1998, Population Council

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Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning: Nigeria 1990, Population Council

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Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning: Pakistan 1990–1991, Population Council

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Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning: Peru 1996, Population Council

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Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning: Senegal 1992–1993 and 1997, Population Council

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Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning: Tanzania 1996, Population Council

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Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning: Togo 1998, Population Council

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Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning: Uganda 1995, Population Council

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Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning: Zimbabwe 1994, Population Council

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HIV voluntary counseling and testing among youth ages 14 to 21: Results from an exploratory study in Nairobi, Kenya, and Kampala and Masaka, Uganda, Horizons Program, Kenya Project Partners, and Uganda Project Partners

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Immunization status and child survival in rural Ghana, Philomena Nyarko, Brian Wells Pence, and Cornelius Debpuur

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Integrating adolescent livelihood activities within a reproductive health program for urban slum dwellers in India, Dale Huntington, Mary Philip Sebastian, Nirmala Sevlam, Barbara Mensch, and Sahar Hegazi

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Kenya update: FRONTIERS adolescent reproductive health project, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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Making a difference for children affected by AIDS: Baseline findings from operations research in Uganda, Laelia Gilborn, Rebecca Nyonyintono, Robert Kabumbuli, and Gabriel Jagwe-Wadda

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Reducing HIV infection among youth: What can schools do? Key baseline findings from Mexico, South Africa, and Thailand, Holley Stewart, Ann P. McCauley, Simon Baker, Martha Givaudan, Shegs James, Iwin Leenen, Susan Pick, Priscilla Reddy, Usasinee Rewthong, Patchara Rumakom, and Dilys Walker

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South Africa: Providers should encourage sexually active youth to use condoms, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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South Africa: Who uses youth centers and why?, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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The reporting of sensitive behavior among adolescents: A methodological experiment in Kenya, Barbara Mensch, Paul C. Hewett, and Annabel Erulkar

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Transitions to adulthood in the context of AIDS in South Africa: Report of Wave I, Naomi Rutenberg, Cathrien Kehus-Alons, Lisanne Brown, Kate Macintyre, Anthea Dallimore, and Carol E. Kaufman

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Whose education counts? The impact of grown children's education on the physical functioning of their parents in Taiwan, Zachary Zimmer, Albert I. Hermalin, and Hui-Sheng Lin

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Zambia: Los educadores juveniles pueden promover comportamientos sexuales más seguros, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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Zambia: Peer educators can promote safer sex behaviors, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

Submissions from 2000

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Adolescent Girls' Livelihoods. Essential Questions, Essential Tools: A Report on a Workshop, Carey Meyers

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Adolescent Girls' Livelihoods. Essential Questions, Essential Tools: A Report on a Workshop [Arabic], Carey Meyers

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Adolescent pregnancy and parenthood in South Africa, Carol E. Kaufman, Thea de Wet, and Jonathan Stadler

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Adolescents and reproductive health in Pakistan: A literature review, Ayesha Khan

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A participatory evaluation of the life-skills training programme in Myanmar, UNICEF and Population Council

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Egipto: Los proveedores de servicios de planificación deben motivar a sus clientas a hablar de sus problemas de sexualidad, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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Egypte: Développer l'accès aux soins après avortement, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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Egypte: Encourager les journalistes à couvrir les questions relatives à la santé de la reproduction, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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Egypte: Les ONG doivent unir leurs forces pour éradiquer l'excision, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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Egypte: Les prestataires de service de planification familiale doivent encourage les discussions sur les problèmes sexuels, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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Egypt: Encourage journalists to cover reproductive health, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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Egypt: Expand access to postabortion care, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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Egypt: Family planning providers should encourage clients to discuss sexual problems, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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Egypt: NGOs need to join forces to end FGC, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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Greater investments in children through women's empowerment: A key to demographic change in Pakistan?, Valerie L. Durrant and Zeba Sathar

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Integrating a reproductive health framework within primary care services: The experience of the Reproductive Health Intervention Study, Karima Khalil, Abdel Moneim Farag, Assem Anwar, Dina Galal, Olfia Kamal, Karraze Shorbagi, Miral Breebaart, Hind Khattab, Nabil Younis, and Huda Zurayk

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Mali: Empower health workers to advocate against female genital cutting, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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Mali: FGC excisors persist despite entreaties, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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Mali: Les exciseuses persistent malgré les supplications, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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Mali: Pour une plus grande responsabilisation des agents de santé dans le plaidoyer contre l'excision, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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Peer education and HIV/AIDS: Past experience, future directions, Deanna Kerrigan and Ellen Weiss

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Schooling opportunities for girls as a stimulus for fertility change in rural Pakistan, Zeba Sathar, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Cem Mete, and Minhaj ul Haque

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Socialization to gender roles and marriage among Egyptian adolescents, Barbara Mensch, Barbara L. Ibrahim, Susan M. Lee, and Omaima El-Gibaly

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The effects of schooling incentive programs on household resource allocation in Bangladesh, Mary Arends-Kuenning and Sajeda Amin

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The School Environment in Egypt: A Situation Analysis of Public Preparatory Schools, Sahar El Tawila, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Barbara Mensch, Hind Wassef, Zeinab Gamal, Wesley H. Clark, and Rania Sakr

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The School Environment in Egypt: A Situation Analysis of Public Preparatory Schools [Arabic], Sahar El Tawila, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Barbara Mensch, Hind Wassef, Zeinab Gamal, Wesley H. Clark, and Rania Sakr

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Women street vendors: The road to recognition, Monique Cohen

Submissions from 1999

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FRONTIERS adolescent reproductive health project update: Encuesta gente joven [Youth survey], Population Council

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Implementing A Reproductive Health Agenda in India: The Beginning, Saroj Pachauri

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Investing in youth: Testing community-based approaches for improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health, Tamara Fetters, Fines Munkonze, and Julie Solo

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Premarital sex and school dropout in Kenya: Can schools make a difference?, Barbara Mensch, Wesley H. Clark, Cynthia B. Lloyd, and Annabel Erulkar

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Strengthening reproductive health services in Africa through Operations Research, Population Council

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The quantity-quality transition in Asia, Mark R. Montgomery, Mary Arends-Kuenning, and Cem Mete

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The spread of primary schooling in sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for fertility change, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Carol E. Kaufman, and Paul C. Hewett

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Transitions to Adulthood: A National Survey of Adolescents in Egypt (1st edition), Sahar El Tawila, Omaima El-Gibaly, Barbara L. Ibrahim, Fikrat El Sahn, Sunny Sallam, Susan M. Lee, Barbara Mensch, Hind Wassef, Sarah Bukhari, and Osman Galal

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Transitions to Adulthood: A National Survey of Adolescents in Egypt [1st edition, Arabic], Sahar El Tawila, Omaima El-Gibaly, Barbara L. Ibrahim, Fikrat El Sahn, Sunny Sallam, Susan M. Lee, Barbara Mensch, Hind Wassef, Sarah Bukhari, and Osman Galal

Submissions from 1998

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Adolescent reproductive health: Booklet for parents, Rieny H. Hardjono and Rashmi Pachauri Rajan

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Country profile of women's health and development in Indonesia, Population Council

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Ethnicity and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, Martin Brockerhoff and Paul C. Hewett

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Incentive schemes for school attendance in rural Bangladesh, Sajeda Amin and Gilda Sedgh

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La Familia en la Mira: Nuevas Perspectivas Sobre Madres, Padres e Hijos, Judith Bruce, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Ann Leonard, Patrice L. Engle, and Niev Duffy

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Needs and risks facing the Indonesian youth population, Desti Murdijana

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Seminar on male involvement in reproductive health in Egypt: Summary of research findings and future directions, Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab

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Strengthening the research capacity of Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana, Robert A. Miller

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The changing social environment for adolescents in Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana: Implications for reproductive behavior, Barbara Mensch, Daniel Bagah, Wesley H. Clark, and Fred N. Binka

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The effects of primary school quality on the educational participation and attainment of Kenyan girls and boys, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Barbara Mensch, and Wesley H. Clark

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The impact of an integrated micro-credit programme on women's empowerment and fertility behavior in rural Bangladesh, Fiona Steele, Sajeda Amin, and Ruchira Tabassum Naved

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The impact of family planning household service delivery on women's status in Bangladesh, James F. Phillips and Mian Bazle Hossain

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The Uncharted Passage: Girls' Adolescence in the Developing World, Barbara Mensch, Judith Bruce, and Margaret E. Greene

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Workshop on youth across Asia, John Townsend, Ann P. McCauley, and Kokila Agarwal

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Youth centres in Ghana: Assessment of the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana Programme, Evam Kofi Glover, Annabel Erulkar, and Joana Nerquaye-Tetteh

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Youth talk about sexuality: A participatory assessment of adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Lusaka, Zambia, Tamara Fetters, Evans Mupela, and Naomi Rutenberg

Submissions from 1997

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Empowering the next generation: Girls of the Maqattam garbage settlement, Marie Assaad and Judith Bruce

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Empowering the next generation: Girls of the Maqattam garbage settlement [Arabic], Marie Assaad and Judith Bruce

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Gender differences in the schooling experiences of adolescents in low-income countries: The case of Kenya, Barbara Mensch and Cynthia B. Lloyd

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Schooling and the experience of adolescents in Kenya, Ayorinde Ajayi, Wesley H. Clark, Annabel Erulkar, Karin Hyde, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Barbara Mensch, Cecilia Ndeti, Barry Ravitch, Elisabeth Masiga, and Shiprah Gichaga

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Study of adolescents: Dynamics of perception, attitude, knowledge and use of reproductive health care, Syed Jahangeer Haider, Shamsun Nehar Saleh, Nahid Kamal, and Alan Gray

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The Youth Empowerment Project: Strengthening NGO Management, Research and Service Delivery Capabilities in Botswana, Mercy Rapelesega and Naomi Rutenberg

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Transition to adulthood of female factory workers: Some evidence from Bangladesh, Sajeda Amin, Ian Diamond, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, and Margaret Newby

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Youth centres in Kenya: Evaluation of the Family Planning Association of Kenya programme, Annabel Erulkar and Barbara Mensch

Submissions from 1996

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Adolescent family life education: Review of curriculum, Ladly Faiz, Hasina Banu, and Devi Sharma

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Gente Joven: Un diálogo sobre la sexualidad con adolescentes mexicanos, Magaly Marques, John M. Paxman, and Judith Bruce

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Learning About Sexuality: A Practical Beginning, Sondra Zeidenstein and Kirsten Moore

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Out of the shadows: Homebased workers organize for international recognition, Renana Jhabvala and Jane Tate

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What's Sex Got to Do with It? Challenges for Incorporating Sexuality into Family Planning Programs, Kirsten Moore and Judith F. Helzner

Submissions from 1995

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Families in Focus: New Perspectives on Mothers, Fathers, and Children, Judith Bruce, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Ann Leonard, Patrice L. Engle, and Niev Duffy

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Lessons learned from a community-based distribution programme in rural Bihar, S. Parveen, M.E. Khan, John Townsend, and Bella C. Patel

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Supporting women farmers in the green zones of Mozambique, Ruth Ansah Ayisi

Submissions from 1994

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Early Marriage and Reproduction in Two Egyptian Villages, Laila El Hamamsy

Submissions from 1993

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Aménagement des Terres Incultes et Émancipation des Femmes L'Expérience de SARTHI, Madhu Sarin

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Gente Joven/Young People: A dialogue on sexuality with adolescents in Mexico, Magaly Marques, John M. Paxman, and Judith Bruce

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Self-employment as a means to women's economic self-sufficiency: Women Venture's business development program, Katharine McKee, Sara Gould, and Ann Leonard

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Wasteland development and the empowerment of women: The SARTHI experience, Madhu Sarin