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Submissions from 2013
Community-level impact of the reproductive health vouchers programme on service utilization in Kenya, Francis Obare, Charlotte E. Warren, Rebecca Njuki, Timothy Abuya, Joseph Sunday, Ian Askew, and Benjamin Bellows
Comparing estimates of multiple and concurrent partnerships across population based surveys: Implications for combination HIV prevention, Martina Morris, Lung Vu, Ayn Leslie-Cook, Eniko Akom, Aloo Stephen, and Donna Sherard
Comprendre les grossesses non désirées au Sénégal: Rapport du Profil Pays, Kaila Clarke, Mohamadou Sall, Babacar Mane, Nafissatou Diop, and Bocar Mamadou Daff
Condoms and condiments: Compatibility and safety of personal lubricants and their use in Africa, Scott Geibel
Contraception and condom use among Bolivian female sex workers: Relationship-specific associations between disease prevention and family planning behaviors, Eileen Yam, Freddy Tinajeros, Rita Revollo, Kara Richmond, Deanna Kerrigan, and Sandra G. Garcia
Contraception orale et risque vasculaire, Philippe Bouchard, Alfred Spira, Yves Ville, Jacqueline Conard, and Régine Sitruk-Ware
Contraception technology: Past, present and future, Régine Sitruk-Ware; Anita Nath; and Daniel R. Mishell, Jr.
Cost estimation for scale-up of voucher services in Kenya, Shubhra Kumar, Smita Sanghrajka, and Benjamin Bellows
C-Src and c-Yes are two unlikely partners of spermatogenesis and their roles in blood-testis barrier dynamics, Xiang Xiao, Dolores D. Mruk, Faith L. Cheng, and C. Yan Cheng
Day of dialogue: Expanding opportunities for increased access to emergency contraception (EC) in Nigeria, Population Council
Day of dialogue: Mainstreaming emergency contraception in the National Family Welfare Program, Population Council
Decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City: The effects on women's reproductive rights, Davida Becker and Claudia Diaz
Degree and correlates of sexual mixing in female sex workers in Karnataka, India, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Catherine M. Lowndes, Kaveri Gurav, Banadakoppa M. Ramesh, Stephen Moses, Reynold G. Washington, and Michel Alary
Demographic dividend, a window of opportunity for development: Implications for South-South cooperation, Selina F. Esantsi
Distance travelled and cost of transport for use of facility-based maternity services in rural Bangladesh: A cross-sectional survey, Kaji Tamanna Keya, Md. Moshiur Rahman, Ubaidur Rob, and Benjamin Bellows
Documentation of HIV prevention research and programmatic learnings from India—Selected peer-reviewed journal publications from the Knowledge Network Project (Volume 1), Population Council
Does rural to urban migration improve Indian women's health status and knowledge of AIDS, Sutapa Agrawal and Praween Kumar Agrawal
Do public health services in Egypt help women exercise their reproductive rights?, Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab
Effectiveness of a community-based positive prevention intervention for people living with HIV who are not receiving antiretroviral treatment: A prospective cohort study, Avina Sarna, Stanley Luchters, Eustasius Musenge, Jerry Okal, Matthew F. Chersich, Waimar Tun, Sabine Mall, Nzioki King'ola, and Sam Kalibala
Effectiveness of a comprehensive sexual and gender-based violence prevention project for in-school girls in Swaziland, Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse (SWAGAA)
Effectiveness of using comic books to communicate HIV and AIDS messages to in-school youth: Insights from a pilot intervention study in Nairobi, Kenya, Francis Obare, Harriet Birungi, Bridget Deacon, and Rob Burnet
Effect of a maternal health voucher scheme on out-of-pocket expenditure and use of delivery care services in rural Bangladesh: A prospective controlled study, Forhana Rahman Noor, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder, and Ubaidur Rob
Effect of computer-assisted interviewing on self-reported sexual behavior data in a microbicide clinical trial, Pamina M. Gorbach, Barbara Mensch, Marla Husnik, Astou Coly, Benoit R. Masse, Bonus Makanani, Chiwawa Nkhoma, Lameck Chinula, Tchangani Tembo, Stanley J. Mierzwa, Kimberly Reynolds, Stacey Hurst, Anne S. Coletti, and Andrew Forsyth
Effects of a health care provider intervention in reduction of sexual risk and related outcomes in economically marginal communities in Mumbai, India, Niranjan Saggurti, Stephen L. Schensul, Bonnie K. Nastasi, Rajendra Singh, Joseph A. Burleson, and Ravi K. Verma
Effects of sedentary lifestyle and dietary habits on body mass index change among adult women in India: Findings from a follow-up study, Praween Kumar Agrawal, Kamla Gupta, Vinod Mishra, and Sutapa Agrawal
Emotional and psychosocial aspects of menstrual poverty in resource-poor settings: A qualitative study of the experiences of adolescent girls in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Joanna Crichton, Jerry Okal, Caroline W. Kabiru, and Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu
Entry into motherhood among adolescent girls in two informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, Donatien Beguy, Robert Ndugwa, and Caroline W. Kabiru
Estimates of the size of key populations at risk for HIV infection: Men who have sex with men, female sex workers and injecting drug users in Nairobi, Kenya, Jerry Okal, Scott Geibel, Nicholas Muraguri, Helgar Musyoki, Waimar Tun, Dita Broz, David Kuria, Andrea Kim, Tom Oluoch, and H. Fisher Raymond
Estimating the number of male sex workers with the capture-recapture technique in Nigeria, Sylvia Adebajo, George I. Eluwa, Jack Tocco, Babatunde A.O. Ahonsi, Lolade Abiodun, Oliver Anene, D.O. Akpona, Andrew Karlyn, and Scott E. Kellerman
Evaluating the impact of three HIV counselling and testing strategies on male most-at-risk population in Nigeria: A segmented regression analysis, George I. Eluwa, Sylvia Adebajo, Jean Njab, Ayodeji Oginni, and Babatunde A.O. Ahonsi
Evaluating the McDonald's business model for HIV prevention among truckers to improve program coverage and service utilization in India, 2004–2010, Vasudha Rao Tirumalasetti, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Sachin Juneja, and Indra Ramayash Singh
Evaluation of 3 approaches for assessing adherence to vaginal gel application in clinical trials, Ariane van der Straten, Helen Cheng, Barbara Mensch, Barbara Friedland, Lauren L. Katzen, Sarah A. Littlefield, Niall Buckley, Lilia Espinoza, Marla J. Keller, Betsy C. Herold, and Mark H. Einstein
Evaluation of a voucher programme in reducing inequities in maternal health utilization in Cambodia: A quasi-experimental study, Ashish Bajracharya, Benjamin Bellows, and Antonia Dingle
Experiences of health care providers with integrated HIV and reproductive health services in Kenya: A qualitative study, Richard Mutemwa, Susannah H. Mayhew, Manuela Colombini, Joanna Busza, Jackline Kivunaga, and Charity Ndwiga
Exploring urban male non-marital sexual behaviours in Pakistan, Ali M. Mir, Abdul Wajid, Stephen Pearson, Mumraiz Khan, and Irfan Masood
Factors associated with risky sexual practices among female sex workers in Karnataka, India, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Catherine M. Lowndes, Sanjay Kumar Mohanty, Kaveri Gurav, Banadakoppa M. Ramesh, Stephen Moses, Reynold G. Washington, and Michel Alary
Family planning, Population Council
Family planning: A missing priority in Pakistan's health sector?, Zeba Sathar
Family planning practices and pregnancy intentions among HIV-positive and HIV-negative postpartum women in Swaziland: A cross sectional survey, Charlotte E. Warren, Timothy Abuya, and Ian Askew
Feasibility and effect of integrating tuberculosis screening and detection in postnatal care services: An operations research study, Charity Ndwiga, Harriet Birungi, Chi-Chi Undie, Herman Weyenga, and Joseph Sitienei
Feasibility of routine screening for intimate partner violence in public health care settings in Kenya, Chi-Chi Undie, Catherine Maternowska, Margaret Mak'anyengo, and Ian Askew
Female sex workers, male circumcision and HIV: A qualitative study of their understanding, experience, and HIV risk in Zambia, Sharon Abbott, Nicole Haberland, Drosin Mulenga, and Paul C. Hewett
Financial incentives and maternal health: Where do we go from here?, Lindsay Morgan, Mary Ellen Stanton, Elizabeth S. Higgs, Robert L. Balster, Benjamin Bellows, Neal Brandes, Alison B. Comfort, Rena Eichler, Amanda Glassman, Laurel Hatt, Claudia M. Conlon, and Marge Koblinsky
FP2020: A research roadmap, Population Council
From problem-solving to research utilization: How operations research and program evaluation can make programs better, Karen Foreit
Gap junctions and blood-tissue barriers, Michelle W.M. Li, Dolores D. Mruk, and C. Yan Cheng
Gender-based violence: A qualitative exploration of norms, experiences and positive deviance, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, K.G. Santhya, and Shagun Sabarwal
Growing up in rural India: An exploration into the lives of younger and older adolescents in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, K.G. Santhya, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Iram Saeed, and Archana Sarkar
Health: Cognition and threshold among the Oraon tea garden labourers of Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal, Subrata Kumar Roy, Sujata Kar Chakraborty, and Arupendra Mozumdar
High HIV incidence among male injection drug users in Delhi, India, Waimar Tun, Lopamudra Saraswati, Mary Philip Sebastian, Vartika Sharma, Amita Yadav, Ira Madan, Ibou Thior, and Avina Sarna
High HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men in Nigeria: Implications for combination prevention, Lung Vu, Sylvia Adebajo, Waimar Tun, Meredith Sheehy, Andrew Karlyn, Jean Njab, Aderemi Azeez, and Babatunde A.O. Ahonsi
High levels of unprotected anal intercourse and never testing for HIV among men who have sex with men in Nigeria: Evidence from a cross-sectional survey for the need for innovative approaches to HIV prevention, Lung Vu, Katherine Andrinopoulos, Waimar Tun, and Sylvia Adebajo
High uptake of HIV testing in a cohort of male injection drug users in Delhi, India: Prevalence and correlates of HIV infection, Avina Sarna, Waimar Tun, Vartika Sharma, Mary Philip Sebastian, Ira Madan, Amita Yadav, Meredith Sheehy, Dean Lewis, and Ibou Thior
HIVCore operations research workshop summary report, Nrupa Jani
HIV risk/vulnerability among migrant/mobile female sex workers in India, Population Council
How conditional cash transfers to promote institutional delivery can also influence postpartum contraception: Evidence from Rajasthan, India, A.J. Francis Zavier and K.G. Santhya
How informed are clients who consent? A mixed-method evaluation of comprehension among clients of male circumcision services in Zambia and Swaziland, Barbara Friedland, Louis Apicella, Katie D. Schenk, Meredith Sheehy, and Paul C. Hewett
Identifying factors associated with maternal deaths in Jharkhand, India: A verbal autopsy study, Nizamuddin Khan and Manas Ranjan Pradhan
Impact of an HIV prevention intervention on condom use among long distance truckers in India, Sachin Juneja, Vasudha Rao Tirumalasetti, Ram Manohar Mishra, Shekhar Sethu, and Indra Ramayash Singh
Impact of conditional cash transfers on maternal and newborn health, Amanda Glassman, Denizhan Duran, Lisa Fleisher, Daniel Singer, Rachel Sturke, Gustavo Angeles, Jodi Charles, Bob Emrey, Joanne Gleason, Winnie Mwebsa, Kelly Saldana, Kristina Yarrow, and Marge Koblinsky
Implementing incentive-based HIV interventions in Zambia: The COMPACT model, Sam Kalibala, Waimar Tun, Chabu Kangale, Jill Keesbury, Ray Handema, and Mwaka Monze
Increase in facility-based deliveries associated with a maternal health voucher programme in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, Benjamin Bellows, Catherine Kyobutungi, Martin Kavao Mutua, Charlotte E. Warren, and Alex C. Ezeh
Induced abortion and women's reproductive health in India, Sutapa Agrawal and Praween Kumar Agrawal
Induced abortion, contraceptive use, and dual protection among female sex workers in Moscow, Russia, Michele R. Decker, Eileen Yam, Andrea L. Wirtz, Stefan Baral, Alena Peryshkina, Vladmir Mogilnyi, and Chris Beyrer
Infographic: Vouchers are Transforming Reproductive Health Access Worldwide, Population Council
Insights into unmet need in Ghana, Kazuyo Machiyama and John C. Cleland
Insights into unmet need in Kenya, Kazuyo Machiyama and John C. Cleland
Insights into unmet need in Senegal, Kazuyo Machiyama and John C. Cleland
International seminar on "Is access enough? Understanding and addressing unmet need for family planning", IUSSP Scientific Panel on Reproductive Health
Introducing medical MR in Bangladesh: MRM final report, Ismat Ara Hena, Ubaidur Rob, Nargis Sultana, Md. Irfan Hossain, Reena Yasmin, Tapash Ranjan Das, and Farid Uddin Ahmed
Islam and family planning: Changing perceptions of health care providers and medical faculty in Pakistan, Ali M. Mir and Gul Rashida
Journee de dialogue sur la contraception d'urgence (CU), Population Council and International Consortium for Emergency Contraception
Lessons from reproductive health to inform multipurpose prevention technologies: Don't reinvent the wheel, Martha Brady and Judy Manning
Local social support mitigates depression among women contending with spousal violence and husband’s risky drinking in Mumbai slum communities, Anindita Dasgupta, Madhusudana Battala, Niranjan Saggurti, Saritha Nair, Dattaram D. Naik, Jay G. Silverman, Balaiah Donta, and Anita Raj
Lost in translation: Assessing effectiveness of focus group questioning techniques to develop improved translation of terminology used in HIV prevention clinical trials, Natasha Mack, Catalina B. Ramirez, Barbara Friedland, and Soori Nnko
Mainstreaming emergency contraception in developing countries: A toolkit for policymakers and service providers, Wilson Liambila, Saumya RamaRao, Joyce Wanderi Maina, and Mary W. Gathitu
Male migrants' non-spousal sexual partnerships in the place of origin: An in-depth investigation in two rural settings of India, Deepika Ganju, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, and Niranjan Saggurti
Male sex workers who sell sex to men also engage in anal intercourse with women: Evidence from Mombasa, Kenya, Priya Mannava, Scott Geibel, Nzioki King'ola, Marleen Temmerman, and Stanley Luchters
Measuring coverage in MNCH: New findings, new strategies, and recommendations for action, Jennifer Bryce, Fred Arnold, Ann K. Blanc, Attila Hancioglu, Holly Newby, Jennifer Requejo, and Tessa Wardlaw
Measuring coverage in MNCH: Validating women's self-report of emergency cesarean sections in Ghana and the Dominican Republic, Özge Tunçalp, Cynthia Stanton, Arachu Castro, Richard Adanu, Marilyn Heymann, Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Samantha R. Lattof, Ann K. Blanc, and Ana Langer
Meeting the unmet need for family planning: Now is the time, Herbert Peterson, Gary L. Darmstadt, and John Bongaarts
Microbicide clinical trial adherence: Insights for introduction, Cynthia Woodsong, Kathleen M. MacQueen, K. Rivet Amico, Barbara Friedland, Mitzy Gafos, Leila Mansoor, Elizabeth E. Tolley, and Sheena McCormack
Migration and HIV risk among male migrant workers in India: Destination sites study, Population Council, Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, and Annamalai University
Migration and HIV risk in India: Places of origin study, Population Council
Mitigating the consequences of sexual violence in Zambia by decentralizing emergency medical responses to police victim support units: Report on the feasibility of police provision of post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV (PEP) in Zambia, Mary Zama, Mardieh Dennis, Jessica Price, Stephanie M. Topp, Jonathan Kaunda Mwansa, and Jill Keesbury
Motivations for entering volunteer service and factors affecting productivity: A mixed method survey of STEPS-OVC volunteer HIV caregivers in Zambia, Jessica Price, Tina Moyo, Stephanie Topp, Drosin Mulenga, Mardieh Dennis, and Mathew Ngunga
New advances on disease biomarkers and molecular targets in biomedicine, Nikki P. Lee, John M. Luk, and C. Yan Cheng
New vision for contraceptive research and development, Régine Sitruk-Ware and Peter J. Donaldson
Nonreceptor protein kinases c-Src, c-Yes, and FAK are biomarkers for male contraceptive research, Xiang Xiao, Dolores D. Mruk, Pranitha Jenardhanan, Jayakanthan Mannu, Premendu P. Mathur, Will M. Lee, Bruno Silvestrini, Yan Ho Cheng, and C. Yan Cheng
Out-of-pocket expenses for maternity care in rural Bangladesh: A public-private comparison, Md. Moshiur Rahman, Ubaidur Rob, Forhana Rahman Noor, and Benjamin Bellows
Performance-based incentives to improve health status of mothers and newborns: What does the evidence show?, Rena Eichler, Kokila Agarwal, Ian Askew, Emma Iriarte, Lindsay Morgan, and Julia Watson
Polarity protein complex scribble/lgl/dlg and epithelial cell barriers, Wen Hui Su, Dolores D. Mruk, Elissa W.P. Wong, Wing-Yee Lui, and C. Yan Cheng
Policy brief—Mainstreaming emergency contraception in developing countries: A toolkit for policymakers and service providers, Wilson Liambila, Saumya RamaRao, Joyce Wanderi Maina, and Mary W. Gathitu
Policy scripts and students' realities regarding sexuality education in secondary schools in Kenya, Francis Obare and Harriet Birungi
Population-based prevalence of hepatitis B and C virus, HIV, syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia in male injection drug users in Lagos, Nigeria, Waimar Tun, Lung Vu, Sylvia Adebajo, Lolade Abiodun, Meredith Sheehy, Andrew Karlyn, Jean Njab, Babatunde A.O. Ahonsi, B. Kawu Issa, and Omokhudu Idogho
Population-level impact of vouchers on access to health facility delivery for women in Kenya: A quasi-experimental study, Francis Obare, Charlotte E. Warren, Timothy Abuya, Ian Askew, and Benjamin Bellows
Post-abortion care in Pakistan: A national study, Zeba Sathar, Susheela Singh, Zakir Hussain Shah, Gul Rashida, Iram Kamran, and Kanwal Eshai
Predictors of sexual debut among young adolescents in Nairobi's informal settlements, Milly Marston, Donatien Beguy, Caroline W. Kabiru, and John C. Cleland
Pregnancies, abortion and women's reproductive health in rural Haryana, India, Sutapa Agrawal, Sayeed Unisa, and Praween Kumar Agrawal
Prevalence and correlates of non-disclosure of HIV serostatus to sex partners among HIV-infected female sex workers and HIV-infected male clients of female sex workers in India, Niranjan Saggurti, Anita Raj, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Debbie M. Cheng, Sharon Coleman, Carly Bridden, Madhusudana Battala, Jay G. Silverman, Manoj Pardeshi, and Jeffrey H. Samet