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Submissions from 2017
Evaluation of the PEPFAR/USAID Asibonisane Community Responses Program in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Project SOAR
Expanding access to integrated family planning intervention packages for married adolescent girls in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Fauzia Akhter Huda, Hassan Rushekh Mahmood, Sadia Afrin, Anisuddin Ahmed, Nafis Al Haque, and Bidhan Krishna Sarker
Exploring provider perspectives on respectful maternity care in Kenya: “Work with what you have”, Charity Ndwiga, Charlotte E. Warren, Julie Ritter, Pooja Sripad, and Timothy Abuya
Exploring the association between FGM/C and early/child marriage: A review of the evidence, Jamlick Karumbi, David Gathara, and Jacinta Muteshi-Strachan
Exploring the association between FGM/C and fistula: A review of the evidence, Pooja Sripad, Charity Ndwiga, and Kaji Tamanna Keya
Factors associated with HIV testing among young men who have sex with men in Myanmar: A cross-sectional study, Minh D. Pham, Poe Poe Aung, Aye Kyawt Paing, Naanki Pasricha, Paul A. Agius, Waimar Tun, Ashish Bajracharya, and Stanley Luchters
Factors predicting improper use of a woman-controlled long-acting reversible contraceptive: Results from the acceptability study of a novel contraceptive vaginal ring, Bianca M. Stifani, Marlena Gehret Plagianos, Carolina Sales Vieira, and Ruth Merkatz
Family planning for HIV-positive girls and young women, Eileen Yam, Elizabeth Tobey, and Amy Ong Tsui
Female genital cutting in Somaliland: Baseline assessment, Katy Newell-Jones
Female genital mutilation/cutting in Kenya: Is change taking place? Descriptive statistics from four waves of Demographic and Health Surveys, Bettina Shell-Duncan, David Gathara, and Zhuzhi Moore
Female genital mutilation/cutting in Nigeria: A scoping review, Blessing U. Mberu
Fertility differential of women in Bangladesh demographic and health survey 2014, Shongkour Roy and Sharif M.I. Hossain
Fertility intentions and contraceptive practices among clinic-users living with HIV in Kenya: A mixed methods study, Susannah H. Mayhew, Manuela Colombini, James Kelly Kimani, Keith Tomlin, Charlotte E. Warren, Integra Initiative, and Richard Mutemwa
Fertility transitions in Ghana and Kenya: Trends, determinants, and implications for policy and programs, Ian Askew, Baker Ndugga Maggwa, and Francis Obare
Florence: A midwife success story, Amy Dempsey
Garment sector health interventions in Cambodia: A comprehensive review, Molyaneth Heng and Ashish Bajracharya
Gender differentials in feeding practices, health care utilization and nutritional status of children in Northern India, Abhishek Singh and Sangram Kishor Patel
Guidelines for the establishment of enterprise infirmaries, Royal Government of Cambodia
Harmonizing national abortion and pregnancy prevention laws and policies for sexual violence survivors with the Maputo Protocol, Jill Thompson, Chi-Chi Undie, Avni Amin, Ronald Johnson, Rajat Khosla, Ian Askew, Leopold Ouedraogo, Triphonie Nkurunziza, Sarah Rich, Elizabeth Westley, and Melissa Garcia
Health care providers' perspectives regarding the use of chlorhexidine gel for cord care in neonates in rural Kenya: Implications for scale-up, Angela Muriuki, Francis Obare, Bill Ayieko, Dennis Matanda, Kenneth Sisimwo, and Brian Mdawida
Health Education Materials for the Workplace: Tools, Ulrich Madeja, David Wofford, and Carolyn Rodehau
Health Education Materials for the Workplace: User's guide for partner organizations, Ulrich Madeja, David Wofford, and Carolyn Rodehau
Health needs, health seeking pathways, and drivers of health seeking behaviors of female garment factory workers in Cambodia: Findings from a qualitative study in Phnom Penh and Kandal provinces, Population Council and The Evidence Project
Health systems and the SDGs: Lessons from a joint HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights response, Charlotte E. Warren, Jonathan Hopkins, Manjulaa Narasimhan, Lynn Collins, Ian Askew, and Susannah H. Mayhew
HIV and disabilities: Time for more and better data, Waimar Tun and Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala
HIV prevalence and high-risk behaviour of young brothel and non-brothel based female sex workers in Nigeria, Uchenna Onyekachi Okafor, Rik Crutzen, Okekearu Ifeanyi, Sylvia Adebajo, and Hubertus Van den Borne
HIV-risk behaviors of men who perpetrate intimate partner violence in Rakai, Uganda, Margo Mullinax, Stephanie A. Grilo, Xiaoyu S. Song, Jennifer Wagman, Sanyukta Mathur, Fred Nalugoda, Tom Lutalo, and John Santelli
Identifying the intersection of alcohol, adherence and sex in HIV positive men on ART treatment in India using an adapted timeline followback procedure, Jean J. Schensul, Toan Ha, Stephen L. Schensul, Avina Sarna, and Kendall Bryant
Impact of an HIV prevention intervention on HIV risk behavior and sexually transmitted infection among female sex workers in Tamil Nadu, India, Joseph D. Williams, Arumugam Vijayaraman, Priya Krishnaswamy, Niranjan Saggurti, Sowmya Ramesh, and Deepika Ganju
Impact of integrated services on HIV testing: A nonrandomized trial among Kenyan family planning clients, Kathryn Church, Charlotte E. Warren, Isolde Birdthistle, George B. Ploubidis, Keith Tomlin, Weiwei Zhou, James Kelly Kimani, Timothy Abuya, Charity Ndwiga, Sedona Sweeney, Susannah H. Mayhew, and Integra Initiative
Impact of integration of sexual and reproductive health services on consultation duration times: Results from the Integra Initiative, Mariana Siapka, Carol Dayo Obure, Susannah H. Mayhew, Sedona Sweeney, Justin Fenty, Anna Vassall, and Integra Initiative
Impact of various progestins with or without transdermal testosterone on gonadotropin levels for non-invasive hormonal male contraception: A randomized clinical trial, Michael Zitzmann, Julia Rohayem, J. Raidt, Sabine Kliesch, Narender Kumar, and Régine Sitruk-Ware
Improving family planning service delivery in humanitarian crises, Chi-Chi Undie, Rajat Khosla, and Karl Blanchet
Improving the measurement of fertility regulation practices: Findings from qualitative research in Ghana, Cicely Marston, Alicia Renedo, Gertrude Nyaaba, Kazuyo Machiyama, Placide Tapsoba, and John C. Cleland
Improving uptake of HIV testing services and linkage to care after diagnosis in Kenya, Project SOAR
Increasing access to reproductive health care through improved service delivery, Gul Rashida, Iram Kamran, Muhammad Khalil, Zeba Tasneem, Rehan M. Niazi, Mumraiz Khan, and Tahira Parveen
Increasing contraceptive access for hard-to-reach populations with vouchers and social franchising in Uganda, Benjamin Bellows, Anna Mackay, Antonia Dingle, Richard Tuyiragize, William Nnyombi, and Aisha Dasgupta
Increasing uptake of HIV, sexually transmitted infection, and family planning services, and reducing HIV-related risk behaviors among youth living with HIV in Uganda, Lung Vu, Brady Zieman, Cecily Banura, Jerry Okal, Margret Elang, Rodgers Ampwera, Georgina Caswell, Diana Amanyire, Jacquelyne Alesi, and Eileen Yam
Indicators for measurement and improvement of the quality of family planning programs: The Philippines, 1997–1998, Population Council
Inequitable gender norms from early adolescence to young adulthood in Uganda: Tool validation and differences across age groups, Lung Vu, Julie Pulerwitz, Brady Zieman, Cecily Banura, Jerry Okal, and Eileen Yam
Information about methods received by contraceptive users in India, Anrudh K. Jain
Introducing oral pre-exposure prophylaxis to adolescent girls and young women in Tanzania: Overview of findings from implementation science research, Population Council
Introduction and approval of menstrual regulation with medication in Bangladesh: A stakeholder analysis, Fauzia Akhter Huda, Sadia Afrin, Bidhan Krishna Sarker, Hassan Rushekh Mahmood, and Anadil Alam
Is girls’ enrolment the chicken or the egg?, Chi-Chi Undie and Harriet Birungi
Knowledge and practices for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia care in Bangladesh, Kanij Sultana and Amy Dempsey
Knowledge and provision of misoprostol among pharmacy workers in Senegal: A cross sectional study, Kate Reiss, Katharine Footman, Eva Burke, Nafissatou Diop, Ramatoulaye Ndao, Babacar Mane, Maaike Van Min, and Thoai Ngo
Knowledge of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Bangladesh, Kanij Sultana and Amy Dempsey
Landscape analysis: Preventing and managing pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Pakistan, Population Council
L’expérience de femmes ayant subi une grossesse non désirée au Sénégal : Une étude qualitative, Fatou Mbow and Nafissatou Diop
Life-saving medicines and equipment in facilities in Bangladesh, Kanij Sultana and Amy Dempsey
Linking sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV services for young people: The Link Up project, Lucy Stackpool-Moore, Divya Bajpai, Georgina Caswell, Tyler Crone, Fleur Dewar, Greg Gray, Allen Kyendikuwa, Julie Mellin, Andrew Miller, Felicity Morgan, Luisa Orza, Jacqui Stevenson, Nienke Westerhof, Felicia Wong, Eileen Yam, and Brady Zieman
Longitudinal associations of intimate partner violence attitudes and perpetration: Dyadic couples data from a randomized controlled trial in rural India, Holly B. Shakya, Paul Fleming, Niranjan Saggurti, Balaiah Donta, Jay G. Silverman, and Anita Raj
Manifestations and drivers of mistreatment of women during childbirth in Kenya: Implications for measurement and developing interventions, Charlotte E. Warren, Rebecca Njue, Charity Ndwiga, and Timothy Abuya
Married adolescent girls in rural Assiut and Souhag: Limited choices and unfulfilled reproductive health needs, Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab, Doaa Oraby, Omaima El-Gibaly, Manal Darwish, Mirette Aziz, Amira Elgazzar, and Heba Mahmoud
Married young women and girls' family planning and maternal heath preferences and use in Ethiopia, Aparna Jain, Elizabeth Tobey, Hussein Ismail, and Annabel Erulkar
Measuring disrespect and abuse to promote respectful maternity care, Population Council
Men's perceptions of PrEP use by their adolescent and young adult female partners in Tanzania in Tanzania: Findings from implementation science research, Population Council
Men's perceptions of treatment as prevention in South Africa: Implications for engagement in HIV care and treatment, Alyssa C. Mooney, Ann Gottert, Nomhle Khoza, Dumisani Rebombo, Jennifer Hove, Aimee Julien Suarez, Rhian Twine, Catherine MacPhail, Sarah Treves-Kagan, Kathleen Kahn, Audrey Pettifor, and Sheri A. Lippman
Method-specific attributes that influence choice of future contraception among married women in Nairobi’s informal settlements, Joyce Mumah, John B. Casterline, Kazuyo Machiyama, Marylene Wamukoya, Caroline W. Kabiru, and John C. Cleland
Methods used in prevalence studies of disrespect and abuse during facility based childbirth: Lessons learned, David Sando, Timothy Abuya, Anteneh Asefa, Kathleen P. Banks, Lynn P. Freedman, Stephanie Kujawski, Amanda Markovitz, Charity Ndwiga, Kate Ramsey, Hannah Ratcliffe, Emmanuel O. Ugwu, Charlotte E. Warren, and R. Rima Jolivet
Modeling and mapping of girls' female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in the context of economic, social, and regional disparities: Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys 1998-2014, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Damaris Kinyoki, Ahmed Sarki, David Gathara, Paul Komba, and Bettina Shell-Duncan
Nestorone® (NES) a novel progestin for non-oral contraception: Structure-activity relationships and brain metabolism studies, Narender Kumar, Jerome Fagart, Philippe Liere, Scott J. Mitchell, Alanah R. Knibb, Isabelle Petit-Topin, Marion Rame, Martine El-Etr, Michael Schumacher, Jeremy J. Lambert, Marie-Edith Rafestin-Oblin, and Régine Sitruk-Ware
"New users" are confusing our counting: Reaching consensus on how to measure 'additional users' of family planning, Aisha Dasgupta, Michelle Weinberger, Benjamin Bellows, and Win Brown
Numbers, systems, people: How interactions influence integration. Insights from case studies of HIV and reproductive health services delivery in Kenya, Susannah H. Mayhew, Sedona Sweeney, Charlotte E. Warren, Martine Collumbien, Charity Ndwiga, Richard Mutemwa, Irina Lut, Manuela Colombini, Anna Vassall, and Integra Initiative
Optimizing community services for an improved continuum of HIV care, Project SOAR
Parents' and guardians' perceptions of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis introduction in Tanzania: Findings from implementation science research, Population Council
Partenariat avec le secteur privé pour renforcer la fourniture de la contraception, Karen Hardee, David Wofford, and Nandita Thatte
Partnering with the private sector to strengthen provision of contraception, Karen Hardee, David Wofford, and Nandita Thatte
Patent: Nestorone®/estradiol transdermal gel, Régine Sitruk-Ware, Dario Norberto Ramon Carrara, and Arnaud Grenier
Pathways to increased coverage: An analysis of time trends in contraceptive need and use among adolescents and young women in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda, Mardieh L. Dennis, Emma Radovich, Kerry L.M. Wong, Onikepe Owolabi, Francesca L. Cavallaro, Michael Mbizvo, Agnes Binagwaho, Peter Waiswa, Caroline A. Lynch, and Lenka Benova
Paying for sex by young men who live on the streets in Dhaka City: Compounded sexual risk in a vulnerable migrant community, Tracy McClair, Tarik Hossain, Nargis Sultana, Brady Zieman, Eileen Yam, Sharif M.I. Hossain, Reena Yasmin, Najmus Sadiq, Michele R. Decker, and Saifuddin Ahmed
Policies for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia prevention and management in Bangladesh, Kanij Sultana and Amy Dempsey
Policymakers' perceptions of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis introduction in Tanzania: Findings from implementation science research, Population Council
Pregnancy experiences of female sex workers in Adama City, Ethiopia: Complexity of partner relationships and pregnancy intentions, Eileen Yam, Aklilu Kidanu, Brady Zieman, Nanlesta Pilgrim, Jerry Okal, Assefa Bekele, Daniel Gudeta, and Georgina Caswell
Preventing pediatric tuberculosis: A randomized trial of symptom-based screening of South African children exposed to tuberculosis, Population Council
Private sector action for women's health and empowerment: How business can invest in women and realize returns, Robyn Russell, Ilze Melngailis, Andrea Lilja, Elissa Goldenberg, Lisa Staxang, Carolyn Rodehau, and David Wofford
Private sector costing of voluntary medical male circumcision in South Africa, Michel Tchuenche and Steven Forsythe
Project YES! Youth engaging for success: A peer mentoring program to transition youth to HIV self-management in Zambia, Project SOAR
Providers' views on PrEP for adolescent girls and young women in Tanzania: Findings from implementation science research, Population Council
Quality of care in the context of rights-based family planning, Anrudh K. Jain
Rapid evidence assessment: Quality of studies assessing interventions to support FGM/C abandonment, Tammary Esho, Jamlick Karumbi, and Carolyne Njue
Rates of HIV and HSV-2 among young people in Machinga, Malawi, Barbara Mensch and Erica Soler-Hampejsek
Reasons for unmet need for family planning, with attention to the measurement of fertility preferences in Kenya and Bangladesh, Joyce Mumah, Kazuyo Machiyama, Caroline W. Kabiru, George Odwe, Francis Obare, Fauzia Akhter Huda, John B. Casterline, and John C. Cleland
Reasons for unmet need for family planning, with attention to the measurement of fertility preferences: Protocol for a multi-site cohort study, Kazuyo Machiyama, John B. Casterline, Joyce Mumah, Fauzia Akhter Huda, Francis Obare, George Odwe, Caroline W. Kabiru, Sharifa Yeasmin, and John C. Cleland
Recognizing women’s rights at work: Health and women workers in global supply chains, Erika R. George, Candace D. Gibson, Rebecca Sewall, and David Wofford
Reducing barriers to accessing fistula repair: Establishing a baseline in Ebonyi, Population Council
Reducing barriers to accessing fistula repair: Establishing a baseline in Katsina, Population Council
Reducing barriers to accessing fistula repair: Establishing a baseline in Uganda, Population Council
Reducing HIV risk among adolescent girls and young women, and their partners through the DREAMS Partnership in Malawi, Project SOAR
Religious differentials in morbidity prevalence and health care seeking behaviours among older persons in India, Gopal Agrawal and Sangram Kishor Patel
Research to Action: Lessons and Learning with the Evidence Project, Robin Keeley and Karen Hardee
Resilience and community response to climate-related events: Case studies from four countries, Aviva Klein Meyers and Karen Hardee
Results from systematic literature review on PE/E in Bangladesh, Karen Kirk and Amy Dempsey
Results from systematic literature review on PE/E in Nigeria, Amy Dempsey and Karen Kirk
Risk factors for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Belize, Population Council
Risk factors for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Cambodia, Population Council
Risk factors for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Guatemala, Population Council
Risk factors for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Nepal, Population Council
Senegal: Explorer le processus de la collaboration multisectorielle mise en place pour l’étude qualitative, Fatou Mbow, Nafissatou Diop, Awa Diop Dabo, Awa Tounkara Cissé, and Seynabou Ba Diakhaté
Service utilization and cost of implementing a comprehensive HIV prevention and care program among people who inject drugs in Delhi, India, Mary Philip Sebastian, Aparajita Dasgupta, Lopamudra Saraswati, Asha Singh, Vartika Sharma, Ira Madan, Waimar Tun, Julie Pulerwitz, Ibou Thior, and Avina Sarna