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Submissions from 2016
Relationship between socio demographic characteristics and HIV indicators among women in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia and Malawi based on DHS data, Sam Kalibala, Erick Oweya, and Lyson Phiri
Reliability and validity of an interviewer-administered adaptation of the Youth Self-Report for mental health screening of vulnerable young people in Ethiopia, Scott Geibel, Kassahun Habtamu, Gebeyehu Mekonnen, Nrupa Jani, Lynnette Kay, Julyata Shibru, Lake Bedilu, and Sam Kalibala
Rencontre de partage sur la problématique des grossesses non désirées chez les adolescents/jeunes au Sénégal : Compte rendu de rencontre, Babacar Mane, Marie-Jesus Buabey, Nafissatou Diop, and Patrick Mugirwa
Reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health: Key messages from Disease Control Priorities 3rd Edition, Robert Black, Carol Levin, Neff Walker, Doris Chou, Li Liu, Marleen Temmerman, and Karen Hardee
Results from a rapid national assessment of services for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Côte d’Ivoire, S. Adam Granato, Stephen S. Gloyd, Julia Robinson, Serge A. Dali, Irma Ahoba, David Aka, Seydou Kouyate, Doroux A. Billy, Sam Kalibala, and Ahoua Kone
Retrospective review of task-shifting community-based programs supporting ARV treatment and retention in Uganda, Sam Kalibala, Jerry Okal, Brady Zieman, Nrupa Jani, Lung Vu, Josephine Birungi, Stephen Okoboi, Jonathan Wangisi, Christine Nabiryo, Joanne Lyavala Okullu, Michael Etukoit, Lydia Buzaalirwa, Augustine Lubanga, Paul Kiyingi, Jonathan Ikapule, Syson Nakyeyune, Stephen Nakibinge, Penninah Lutung, Samuel Waliggo, Joseph Nsamba, Yashien Wamanga, Joseph Kamya, Robina Sentongo, and Robert Yiga
Risk of pregnancy in breastfeeding mothers: Role of the progesterone vaginal ring on birth spacing, Régine Sitruk-Ware, Saumya RamaRao, Ruth Merkatz, and John Townsend
Root causes and persistent challenges in accelerating the abandonment of FGM/C, Jacinta Muteshi-Strachan
Routine screening for intimate partner violence: A guide for trainers, Odongo Odiyo, Chi-Chi Undie, and Margaret Mak'anyengo
Scaling up family planning in Zambia—Part 1: Assessment and feasibility of maintaining an innovative program, Benjamin Bellows, Mary Nambao, Luigi Jaramillo, Roz Fanaiayan, Mardieh Dennis, and Karen Hardee
Scaling up family planning in Zambia—Part 2: The cost of scaling up family planning services, David Collins and Colin Gilmartin
Screening for sexual and gender-based violence in emergency settings in Uganda: An assessment of feasibility, Chi-Chi Undie, Harriet Birungi, Jane Harriet Namwebya, Wossen Taye, Lilian Maate, Margaret Mak'anyengo, Anne Katahoire, David Apollo Kazungu, Darlson Kusasira, Zahra Mirghani, and Joanina Karugaba
Senegal: The impact of a study on misoprostol use and knowledge among pharmacists, Eva Burke, E. Robinson, Nafissatou Diop, Kate Reiss, Katharine Footman, Maaike Van Min, Barbara Reichwein, and Ian Askew
Sexual and reproductive health and rights needs of young men who live in the streets in Dhaka City: A Link Up exploratory study, Population Council
Sexual and reproductive health knowledge, attitudes, and practices among early adolescents and young adults in Uganda: Findings from a Link Up exploratory study, Population Council
Situational analysis of the private sector in the delivery of family planning services in Egypt: Current status and potential for increased involvement, Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab, Doaa Oraby, and Benjamin Bellows
Strengthening community-based services for children and families affected by HIV: An evaluation of the Zambia Family program, Project SOAR
Strengthening factory health systems under Levi Strauss & Co.'s worker well-being initiative in Egypt, Population Council and The Evidence Project
Stroke-attributable death among older persons during the great recession, April Falconi, Alison Gemmill, Deborah Karasek, Julia Goodman, Beth Anderson, Murray Lee, Benjamin Bellows, and Ralph A. Catalano
The Africa Regional SGBV Network Learning Brief Series: Learning updates from Kenya (Brief #2), Population Council
The Africa Regional SGBV Network Learning Brief Series: Learning updates from Kenya (Brief #4), Population Council
The Africa Regional SGBV Network Learning Brief Series: Learning updates from South Africa (Brief #1), Population Council
The Africa Regional SGBV Network Learning Brief Series: Learning updates from Swaziland (Brief #3), Population Council
The Africa Regional SGBV Network Learning Brief Series: Learning updates from Uganda (Brief #6), Population Council
The Africa Regional SGBV Network Learning Brief Series: Learning updates from Uganda (Brief #7), Population Council
The Africa Regional SGBV Network Learning Brief Series: Learning updates from Zambia (Brief #5), Population Council
The common link between policies conducive to both the demographic dividend and fertility transition, Anrudh K. Jain
The consumer perspective: A consultation with senior health officials from developing countries on standards of evidence for reproductive and maternal health care, The Evidence Project and STEP UP Research Programme Consortium
The FGM/C research programme, Jacinta Muteshi-Strachan
The importance of husbands' engagement in family planning discussion to promote contraception use for birth spacing in rural India, Balaiah Donta, Saritha Nair, Niranjan Saggurti, Mohan Ghule, Madhusudana Battala, Anindita Dasgupta, Gajanan Velhal, Jay G. Silverman, and Anita Raj
The ongoing violence against women: Female genital mutilation/cutting, Jacinta Muteshi-Strachan, Suellen Miller, and Jose M. Belizan
The private sector as a provider of family planning services in Egypt: Challenges and opportunities, Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab, Doaa Oraby, and Benjamin Bellows
The private sector as a provider of family planning services in Egypt: Challenges and opportunities [Arabic], Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab, Doaa Oraby, and Benjamin Bellows
The risks of partner violence following HIV status disclosure, and health service responses: Narratives of women attending reproductive health services in Kenya, Manuela Colombini, Courtney James, Charity Ndwiga, The Integra Research Team, and Susannah H. Mayhew
Understanding demand for family planning and reproductive health services through the Indian National Health Insurance Scheme in Uttar Pradesh, Arupendra Mozumdar, Kumudha Aruldas, Aparna Jain, Laura Reichenbach, Robin Keeley, and M.E. Khan
Understanding fertility regulation strategies among educated women in Accra, Cicely Marston, Alicia Renedo, Gertrude Nyaaba, Kazuyo Machiyama, and Placide Tapsoba
Understanding married women's vulnerability to HIV infection in Egypt: An exploratory study, Doaa Oraby and Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab
Uptake of condoms and lubricants remains low among Nigerian men who have sex with men despite availability and counseling at trusted community health centers, Trevor A. Crowell, Stefan Baral, Babajide Keshinro, Rebecca G. Nowak, Sheree Schwartz, Sylvia Adebajo, William A. Blattner, Manhattan E. Charurat, and Julie Ake
Using peers to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people living with HIV in Uganda: Findings from a Link Up evaluation, Population Council
Using the community informant based (MADE-IN and MADE-FOR) methodology for estimating maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in districts Haripur and Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Population Council
Using the community informant based (Made-in and Made-for) methodology for estimating maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ali M. Mir, Saleem Shaikh, Mumraiz Khan, and Irfan Masood
Using the community informant-based (MADE-IN and MADE-FOR) methodology to estimate the neonatal mortality rate (NMR) in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: A feasibility study, Ali M. Mir, Saleem Shaikh, Mumraiz Khan, Irfan Masood, Mansoor Qaisar, Sabahat Hussain, and Rehan M. Niazi
Utilization of national health insurance for family planning and reproductive health services by the urban poor in Uttar Pradesh, India, Arupendra Mozumdar, Kumudha Aruldas, Aparna Jain, Laura Reichenbach, Robin Keeley, and M.E. Khan
Why do marital partners of people living with HIV not test for HIV? A qualitative study in Lusaka, Zambia, Maurice Musheke, Sonja Merten, and Virginia Bond
Women's knowledge and attitudes surrounding abortion in Zambia: A cross-sectional survey across three provinces, Jenny A. Cresswell, Rosalyn Schroeder, Mardieh Dennis, Onikepe Owolabi, Bellington Vwalika, Maurice Musheke, Oona Campbell, and Veronique Filippi
Submissions from 2015
A cross sectional comparison of postnatal care quality in facilities participating in a maternal health voucher program versus non-voucher facilities in Kenya, Charlotte E. Warren, Timothy Abuya, Lucy Kanya, Francis Obare, Rebecca Njuki, and Marleen Temmerman
Addressing gender-biased sex selection in Haryana, India: Promising approaches, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Rajib Acharya, Sharmistha Basu, and A.J. Francis Zavier
Addressing mental health disorders and HIV vulnerability of marginalized adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Nrupa Jani, Lung Vu, Sam Kalibala, Gebeyehu Mekonnen, and Kay Lynn
Adjudin – A male contraceptive with other biological activities, Yan Ho Cheng, Weiliang Xia, Elissa W.P. Wong, Qian Reuben Xie, Jiaxiang Shao, Tengyuan Liu, Yizhou Quan, Tingting Zhang, Xiao Yang, Keyi Geng, Bruno Silvestrini, and C. Yan Cheng
A false dichotomy: RCTs and their contributions to evidence-based public health, Laurel Hatt, Minki Chatterji, Leslie Miles, Alison B. Comfort, Benjamin Bellows, and Francis O. Okello
Age at menarche, education, and child marriage among young wives in rural Maharashtra, India, Anita Raj, Mohan Ghule, Saritha Nair, Niranjan Saggurti, Donta Balaiah, and Jay G. Silverman
Aligning goals, intents, and performance indicators in family planning service delivery, Saumya RamaRao and Anrudh K. Jain
A model for translating ethnography and theory into culturally constructed clinical practices, Bonnie K. Nastasi, Jean J. Schensul, Stephen L. Schensul, Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada, Pertti J. Pelto, Shubhada Maitra, Ravi K. Verma, and Niranjan Saggurti
Analysis of trend of malaria prevalence in the ten Asian countries from 2006 to 2011: A longitudinal study, Shongkour Roy and Tanjina Khatun
An assessment of comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS among slum and non-slum populations in Delhi, India, Pravin K. Jha, Padum Narayan, Saritha Nair, Deepika Ganju, Damodar Sahu, and Arvind Pandey
An innovative financing model for the progesterone contraceptive vaginal ring through voucher programs, Ishita Chattopadhyay, John Townsend, and Saumya RamaRao
Anneau vaginal à la progesterone: Appel a l'action pour combler les ecarts importants dans la planification familiale postnatal, Population Council
Anneau vaginal à progestérone: aussi sûr pour maman que pour bébé, Population Council
Anneau vaginal à progestérone: évite les grossesses, Population Council
Annotated bibliography of Nigerian youth-focused HIV and sexual and reproductive health project publications (grey literature), Population Council
Annotated bibliography of peer-reviewed literature related to the sexual and reproductive health of young people in Nigeria (2000-2014), Population Council
Applying emerging science to contraception research: Implications for the clinic, Régine Sitruk-Ware and Anita Nath
Are parents talking to adolescents about sexuality? Evidence from four slums in Ghana, Selina F. Esantsi, Francis Onyango, Gloria Quansah Asare, Emmanuel Kuffour, Placide Tapsoba, Harriet Birungi, and Ian Askew
Are truckers being over stigmatized as HIV carriers in India? Evidences from behavioral and biological cross-sectional surveys among clients of female sex workers, Damodar Sahu, Sowmya Ramesh, Ram Manohar Mishra, K. Srikanth Reddy, Reena Bharadwaj, Niranjan Saggurti, Arvind Pandey, Mandar Mainkar, and Bitra George
ARV-based HIV prevention for women: State of the science and considerations for implementation in Zimbabwe. Report from a provider workshop, Population Council
A secondary analysis of retention across the PMTCT cascade in selected countries: Rwanda, Malawi, Kenya, and Swaziland, Godfrey Woelk, Aida Y. Berhan, Kwashie Kudiabor, Martha Mukaminega, John On'gech, Epiphanie Nyirabahizi, Caspian Chouraya, David Kimosop, Dieudonne Ndatimana, Mafayo Phiri, and Heather Hoffman
Assessing the feasibility of police initiation of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis for sexual violence survivors in Lusaka, Zambia, Mary Zama, Mardieh Dennis, Jessica Price, and Stephanie M. Topp
Association between general media exposure and sexual behavior among mobile female sex workers in India, Varun Sharma, Niranjan Saggurti, and Shalini Bharat
Association between system reach and exposure to interventions and characteristics of mobile female sex workers in four high HIV prevalence states in India, Varun Sharma, Niranjan Saggurti, and Shalini Bharat
Availability, use and quality of care for medical abortion services in private facilities in Kenya, Wilson Liambila, Francis Obare, Edward Ikiugu, Vitalis Akora, Jesse Njunguru, Michael Njuma, Kate Reiss, and Harriet Birungi
Barriers to use contraceptive methods among rural young married couples in Maharashtra, India: Qualitative findings, Mohan Ghule, Anita Raj, Prajakta Palaye, Anindita Dasgupta, Saritha Nair, Niranjan Saggurti, Madhusudana Battala, and Balaiah Donta
Burnout at the frontline: The effect of a reproductive health voucher program on health workers in Uganda, Carinne D. Brody, John M. Irige, and Benjamin Bellows
Burundi program implementation workshop, 3–5 June 2014: Link Up meeting report, Population Council and Alliance Burundaise contre le Sida
Can reproductive health voucher programs improve quality of postnatal care? A quasi-experimental evaluation of Kenya’s Safe Motherhood voucher scheme, Claire Watt, Timothy Abuya, Charlotte E. Warren, Lucy Kanya, and Benjamin Bellows
Causes of death among HIV-infected adults registered in selected anti-retroviral therapy centers in north-eastern India, Chiranjeev Bhattacharjya, Damodar Sahu, Sangram Kishor Patel, Niranjan Saggurti, and Arvind Pandey
Changing HIV epidemic in north-eastern India and its relationship with development and programmatic indicators, Chiranjeev Bhattacharjya, Sangram Kishor Patel, Samiran Panda, and Alok Kr. Deb
'Changing the World': The Africa Regional Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Network, Chi-Chi Undie, Harriet Birungi, and Ian Askew
Characteristics associated with HIV drug resistance among women screening for an HIV prevention trial in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Barbara Mensch, Pamina M. Gorbach, Cliff Kelly, Photini Kiepiela, Kailazarid Gomez, Gita Ramjee, Shayhana Ganesh, Neetha S. Morar, Lydia Soto-Torres, and Urvi M. Parikh
Combined hormonal versus nonhormonal versus progestin-only contraception in lactation, Laureen M. Lopez, Thomas W. Grey, Alison M. Stuebe, Mario Chen, Sarah T. Truitt, and Maria F. Gallo
Community-level effect of the reproductive health vouchers program on out-of-pocket spending on family planning and safe motherhood services in Kenya, Francis Obare, Charlotte E. Warren, Lucy Kanya, Timothy Abuya, and Benjamin Bellows
Community opinion leaders in Ghana speak out on adolescent sexuality: What are the issues?, Selina F. Esantsi, Francis Onyango, Gloria Quansah Asare, Emmanuel Kuffour, Placide Tapsoba, Harriet Birungi, and Ian Askew
Community perspectives on parental/caregiver communication on reproductive health and HIV with adolescent orphans and non-orphans in western Kenya, Milka Juma, Jane Alaii, Ian Askew, L. Kay Bartholomew, and Bart van den Borne
Comprendre les grossesses non désirées au Sénégal : Rapport du Profil Pays [Compte rendu de l’atelier de dissémination des résultats auprès des parlementaires], Babacar Mane, Bocar Mamadou Daff, Marie-Jesus Buabey, and Abdelylah Lakssir
Conceptualizing and measuring unintended pregnancy and birth: Moving the field forward, Population Council
Contraceptive use and fertility intentions among women living with HIV in Kenya and Swaziland, Integra Initiative
Contraceptive use and intentions among unmarried and married young women undergoing abortion in Bihar and Jharkhand, India, A.J. Francis Zavier and Shireen J. Jejeebhoy
Contributions of an intensive HIV prevention programme in increasing HIV testing among men who have sex with men in Andhra Pradesh, India, Sowmya Ramesh, Purnima Mehrotra, and Niranjan Saggurti
Correlates of mental depression among female sex workers in southern India, Sangram Kishor Patel, Niranjan Saggurti, Saroj Pachauri, and Parimi Prabhakar
Cost and technical efficiency of integrated HIV and SRH services in Kenya and Swaziland, Integra Initiative
Creating conditions for scale up: Technical assistance as an implementation research uptake strategy, Ian Askew
Curriculum on adolescent-friendly health services and health voucher mechanisms: Facilitator's training manual, Population Council
Delivering contraceptive vaginal rings, Population Council
Delivering contraceptive vaginal rings: Review of postpartum and postnatal care programs in Nigeria, Godwin Unumeri and Salisu Mohammed Ishaku
Delivering contraceptive vaginal rings: Review of postpartum service packages in Kenya, Wilson Liambila, Saumya RamaRao, and Heather Clark
Delivering contraceptive vaginal rings—Task sharing in the delivery of family planning programs: Experiences from Senegal, Babacar Mane, Nafissatou Diop, and Saumya RamaRao
Delivering contraceptive vaginal rings—Task sharing policies and practices in the delivery of family planning services: Experiences from Nigeria, Godwin Unumeri and Salisu Mohammed Ishaku
Delivering contraceptive vaginal rings—Task shifting and task sharing in the delivery of family planning services: Experiences from Kenya, Wilson Liambila, Saumya RamaRao, and Heather Clark
Delivering medical abortion at scale: A study of the retail market for medical abortion in Madhya Pradesh, India, Timothy Powell-Jackson, Rajib Acharya, Veronique Filippi, and Carine Ronsmans
Differences in sexual practices, sexual behavior and HIV risk profile between adolescents and young persons in rural and urban Nigeria, Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan, Sylvia Adebajo, Adedayo Adeyemi, and Kayode Micheal Ogungbemi
Disclosure of pharmacokinetic drug results to understand nonadherence, Ariane van der Straten, Elizabeth T. Montgomery, Petina Musara, Juliane Etima, Sarita Naidoo, Nicole Laborde, Miriam Hartmann, Lisa Levy, Thola Bennie, Helen Cheng, Jeanna Piper, Cynthia I. Grossman, Jeanne Marrazzo, and Barbara Mensch