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Submissions from 2010
Abortion experiences of unmarried young women in India: Evidence from a facility-based study in Bihar and Jharkhand, Shveta Kalyanwala, Francis A.J. Zavier, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, and Rajesh Kumar
Access to antiretroviral therapy for adults and children with HIV infection in developing countries: Horizons studies, 2002–2008, Avina Sarna and Scott E. Kellerman
Addressing gender dynamics and engaging men in HIV programs: Lessons learned from Horizons research, Julie Pulerwitz, Annie P. Michaelis, Ravi K. Verma, and Ellen Weiss
Alcohol and sexual risk behavior among migrant female sex workers and male workers in districts with high in-migration from four high HIV prevalence states in India, Ravi K. Verma, Niranjan Saggurti, Ajay Kumar Singh, and Suvakanta N. Swain
Alcohol use and sex risk behaviors among HIV-infected female sex workers (FSWs) and HIV-infected male clients of FSWs in India, Jeffrey H. Samet, Christine A. Pace, Debbie M. Cheng, Sharon Coleman, Carly Bridden, Manoj Pardesi, Niranjan Saggurti, and Anita Raj
Alcohol use, sexual risk behavior and STIs among married men in Mumbai, India, Niranjan Saggurti, Stephen L. Schensul, and Rajendra Singh
Assessing the feasibility of home administration of misoprostol in the prevention of postpartum hemorrhage in rural Pakistan, Ali M. Mir, Abdul Wajid, and Sadaf Gull
Assessing the potential acceptability of a new cadre of community midwives for pregnancy and delivery related care in rural Pakistan: Findings from a qualitative study, Abdul Wajid, Ali M. Mir, Zubaida Rashid, and Abida Aziz
Associations between early marriage and young women's marital and reproductive health outcomes: Evidence from India, K.G. Santhya, Usha Ram, Rajib Acharya, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Faujdar Ram, and Abhishek Singh
A step-by-step guide to strengthening sexual violence services in public health facilities: Lessons and tools from sexual violence services in Africa, Jill Keesbury and Jill Thompson
A strategy for the reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality, Population Council
Can private pharmacy providers offer comprehensive reproductive health services to users of emergency contraceptives? Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya, Wilson Liambila, Francis Obare Onyango, and Jill Keesbury
Care of the newborn: Community perceptions and health seeking behavior, Charlotte E. Warren
Care seeking for maternal health: Challenges remain for poor women, Charlotte E. Warren
Clinically relevant progestins regulate neurogenic and neuroprotective responses in vitro and in vivo, Lifei Liu, Liqin Zhao, Hongyun She, Shuhua Chen, Jun Ming Wang, Charisse Wong, Kelsey McClure, Régine Sitruk-Ware, and Roberta Diaz Brinton
Commentary: Janani Suraksha Yojana and the maternal mortality rate, Anrudh K. Jain
Community based reproductive health (RH) intervention resulted in increasing age at marriage: The case of Berhane Hewan Project, in East Gojam zone, Amhara region, Ethiopia, Tekle-Ab Mekbib and Mitike Molla
Community interventions supporting children affected by HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: A review to derive evidence-based principles for programming, Katie D. Schenk and Annie P. Michaelis
Community-level HIV/STI interventions and their impact on alcohol use in urban poor populations in India, Stephen L. Schensul, Niranjan Saggurti, Joseph A. Burleson, and Rajendra Singh
Community mobilization for postabortion care in Kenya: Baseline evaluation report, Chi-Chi Undie and Saumya RamaRao
Comprehensive responses to gender-based violence in low-resource settings: Lessons learned from implementation, Jill Keesbury and Ian Askew
Correlates of grief among older adults caring for children and grandchildren as a consequence of HIV and AIDS in South Africa, Hermien Boon, Robert A.C. Ruiter, Shegs James, Bart van den Borne, Eka Esu-Williams, and Priscilla Reddy
Curcumin derivatives inhibit testicular 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 3, Guo-Xin Hu, Guang Liang, Yanhui Chu, Xiao-Kun Li, Qing-Quan Lian, Han Lin, Yi He, Yadong Huang, Dianne O. Hardy, and Renshan Ge
Cytoskeletal dynamics and spermatogenesis, Pearl P.Y. Lie, Dolores D. Mruk, Will M. Lee, and C. Yan Cheng
Deaths of women of reproductive age: In-depth analysis of data from the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2006-07, Pakistan Initiative for Mothers and Newborns (PAIMAN)
Do improvements in client-provider interaction increase contraceptive continuation? Unraveling the puzzle, Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab and Saumya RamaRao
Effect of dai training on maternal and neonatal care: An operations research study, Peter C. Miller, Gul Rashida, Abdul Wajid, Zeba Tasneem, Lubna Mahmood, and Minhaj ul Haque
Emergency contraception: Idea to program, Saumya RamaRao, John Townsend, and Sarah Raifman
Encouraging abandonment of FGM/C among the Somali community in Wajir, Kenya, Population Council
Endometrial effect of progesterone delivered by vaginal rings in estrogen-treated postmenopausal women, Gabriela Noe; Régine Sitruk-Ware; Fernando Zegers-Hochschild; Bruce Variano; Juan Carlos Montero; P. Arriagada; A. Li; Frank Z. Stanczyk; J.C. Felix; Daniel R. Mishell, Jr.; and Horacio B. Croxatto
Executive summary: A step-by-step guide to strengthening sexual violence services in public health facilities, Jill Keesbury and Jill Thompson
Expanded safety and acceptability of the candidate vaginal microbicide Carraguard® in South Africa, Lydia Altini, Kelly Blanchard, Nicol Coetzee, Alana de Kock, Christopher J. Elias, Charlotte Ellertson, Barbara Friedland, Anwar Hoosen, Heidi E. Jones, Peter H. Kilmarx, Mabitso Marumo, C. Elizabeth McGrory, Constance Monedi, Gugulethu Ndlovu, Bels Nkompala, Annalie Pistorius, Gita Ramjee, Mohlatlego Sebola, Annik Sorhaindo, Abigail Norris Turner, Kathryn Tweedy, Janneke van de Wijgert, Manuela M. Williams, and Beverly Winikoff
Experience seeking abortion among unmarried young women in Bihar and Jharkhand, India: Delays and disadvantages, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Shveta Kalyanwala, A.J. Francis Zavier, Rajesh Kumar, and Nita Jha
Explaining perceived ability among older people to provide care as a result of HIV and AIDS in South Africa, Hermien Boon, Shegs James, Robert A.C. Ruiter, Bart van den Borne, Eka Esu-Williams, and Priscilla Reddy
Facility assessment report: Introducing pay-for-performance (P4P) approach to increase utilization of maternal, newborn, and child health services in Bangladesh, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder, Ubaidur Rob, Laila Rahman, Ismat Ara Hena, Farhana Akter, Mohammad Ataur Rahman, Md. Julkarnayeen, Md. Akteruzzaman, Md. Sohel Rana, and Ripa Ali
Factors affecting enrolment of PLHIV into ART services in India, Avina Sarna, Damodar Bachani, Mary Philip Sebastian, Ruchi Sogarwal, and Madhusudana Battala
Future demands for services from public health facilities in Uttar Pradesh, Population Council
Future of family planning program in Bangladesh: Issues and challenges, Ubaidur Rob, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder, and A.K.M. Zafar Ullah Khan
Geographic variations in inequities in access to sexual and reproductive health services, Adam Weiner
Guidelines for pilot study on introducing pay-for-performance (P4P) approach to increase utilization of maternal, newborn and child health services in Bangladesh, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Population Council, and UNICEF
Health Research for Development Initiative in Vietnam (HRDI): Impact evaluation results, Katherine Williams, Meiwita P. Budiharsana, and Nguyen Thi Phuong Lan
High-risk sex among mobile female sex workers in the context of jatras (religious festivals) in Karnataka, India, Shiva S. Halli, Raluca Buzdugan, Stephen Moses, James Blanchard, Anrudh K. Jain, Ravi K. Verma, and Niranjan Saggurti
HIV genital shedding and safety of Carraguard use by HIV-infected women: A crossover trial in Thailand, Catherine A. McLean, Janneke van de Wijgert, Heidi E. Jones, John M. Karon, Janet M. McNicholl, Sara J. Whitehead, Sarah Braunstein, Jullapong Achalapong, Supaporn Chaikummao, Jordan W. Tappero, Lauri Markowitz, and Peter H. Kilmarx
HIV/STI risk among male Mexican immigrants in Dallas, Texas: Findings from a pilot study, Kate S. Wilson, Elizabeth Eggleston, Claudia Diaz, and Sandra G. Garcia
Horizons: Looking back, moving forward, Naomi Rutenberg and Deborah Weiss
Implementation of clinic-based modified-directly observed therapy (m-DOT) for ART: Experiences in Mombasa, Kenya, Paul Munyao, Stanley Luchters, Matthew F. Chersich, Susan Kaai, Scott Geibel, Kishorchandra N. Mandaliya, Marleen Temmerman, Naomi Rutenberg, and Avina Sarna
Implementing programs for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in resource-constrained settings: Horizon studies, 1999–2007, Carolyn Baek and Naomi Rutenberg
Improving maternal and neonatal health: Measuring the impact of the PAIMAN project in ten districts in Pakistan—A Summary: Comparing baseline and endline survey findings (2005-2010), Pakistan Initiative for Mothers and Newborns (PAIMAN)
Improving quality of health care for gender-based violence victims at health facilities in Viet Nam, Mai Quoc Tung, Meiwita P. Budiharsana, Nguyen Thi Phuong Lan, and Jane H. Patten
Improving the health care response to gender-based violence: Project evaluation report, Meiwita P. Budiharsana and Mai Quoc Tung
Improving the lives of vulnerable children: Implications of Horizons research among orphans and other children affected by AIDS, Katie D. Schenk, Annie P. Michaelis, Tobey Nelson Sapiano, Lisanne Brown, and Ellen Weiss
Increasing appropriate complementary feeding in rural Uttar Pradesh: Implications for behavior change communication, Population Council
Increasing complete immunization in rural Uttar Pradesh: Implications for behavior change communication, Population Council
Increasing early and exclusive breastfeeding in rural Uttar Pradesh: Implications for behavior change communication, Population Council
Increasing institutional delivery and access to emergency obstetric care services in rural Uttar Pradesh: Implications for behavior change communication, Population Council
Increasing postpartum contraception in rural Uttar Pradesh: Implications for behavior change communication, Population Council
Increasing the practice of thermal care to prevent newborn hypothermia: Implications for behavior change communication in rural Uttar Pradesh, Population Council
Initial assessment of community midwives in rural Pakistan, Abdul Wajid, Zubaida Rashid, and Ali M. Mir
Intégration des Services au Sénégal, Population Council
Integration of services in Senegal, Population Council
Intrauterine administration of CDB-2914 (Ulipristal) suppresses the endometrium of rhesus macaques, Robert M. Brenner, Ov D. Slayden, Anita Nath, Yun-yen Tsong, and Régine Sitruk-Ware
Introducing and pilot-testing the national guidelines on integrating the management of STIs/RTIs into reproductive health settings in Kenya, Wilson Liambila, Saiqa Mullick, Ian Askew, Nathalie Broutet, Bartilol Kigen, Cosmas Mutunga, Daniel Sande, Nimrod Garama, Benjamin Tsofa, Christine Awuor, and Ibrahim Mohammed
Inverse probability weighting in STI/HIV prevention research: Methods for evaluating social and community interventions, Sheri A. Lippman, Starley B. Shade, and Alan E. Hubbard
Life-skills education leads to improved effect on adolescents' sexual behavior, Population Council
Looking back, moving forward: Access to antiretroviral therapy for HIV infected adults and children in developing countries: Horizons Studies, 2002 to 2008, Avina Sarna and Scott E. Kellerman
Looking back, moving forward: Implementing PMTCT programs in resource-constrained settings, Horizons studies 1999 to 2007, Carolyn Baek and Naomi Rutenberg
Looking back, moving forward: Improving the lives of orphans and other children affected by AIDS, Horizons studies 1998 to 2007, Katie D. Schenk, Annie P. Michaelis, Tobey C. Nelson, Lisanne Brown, and Ellen Weiss
Looking back, moving forward: Promoting gender equity to fight HIV, Horizons studies 1999 to 2007, Julie Pulerwitz, Annie P. Michaelis, and Ellen Weiss
Looking back, moving forward: Reducing HIV-related stigma, Horizons studies 2000 to 2007, Julie Pulerwitz, Annie P. Michaelis, Ellen Weiss, Lisanne Brown, and Vaishali Sharma Mahendra
Looking back, moving forward: Understanding the HIV risk and sexual health needs of men who have sex with men, Horizons studies 2001 to 2008, Scott Geibel, Waimar Tun, Placide Tapsoba, and Scott E. Kellerman
Mainstreaming emergency contraception pills in Kenya, Jill Keesbury, Monica Wanjiru, and Katherine Maina
Manual on financial mechanism for the health facilities: Introducing pay-for-performance approach to increase utilization of maternal, newborn, and child health services in Bangladesh, Laila Rahman, Dipak Kumar Shil, Md. Mamun-or Rashid, Ismat Ara Hena, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder, Farhana Akter, Anup Kumar Dey, Ripa Ali, Joynal Abedin, Mursheda Rahman, Md. Ataur Rahman, Md. Julkarnayeen, Arifur Rahman, and Md. Abdur Rab Sardar
Maternal and neonatal health services in Sudan: Results of a situation analysis, Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab and Maha El-Rabbat
Media perspectives on partnerships to address family health in northern India: Implications for behavior change communication, Population Council
Monitoring and Evaluation of the Emergency Plan Progress (MEEPP): End-of-project evaluation, Sam Kalibala
New frontiers in nonhormonal male contraception, C. Yan Cheng and Dolores D. Mruk
New frontiers in nonhormonal male contraception, C. Yan Cheng and Dolores D. Mruk
Nonresponse in repeat population-based voluntary counseling and testing for HIV in rural Malawi, Francis Obare Onyango
PEPFAR special initiative on sexual and gender-based violence: Baseline report, Lynne Elson and Jill Keesbury
Perceived stigma among patients receiving antiretroviral treatment: A prospective randomised trial comparing an m-DOT strategy with standard-of-care in Kenya, Susan Kaai, Sandra Bullock, Avina Sarna, Scott Geibel, Naomi Rutenberg, Matthew F. Chersich, Stanley Luchters, Paul Munyao, Kishorchandra Mandaliya, and Marleen Temmerman
Planning and implementing an essential package of sexual and reproductive health services: Guidance for integrating family planning and STI/RTI with other reproductive health and primary health services, Katherine Williams, Charlotte E. Warren, and Ian Askew
Prevention with positives: How do we reach them in the community?, Avina Sarna, Jerry Okal, Stanley Luchters, Nzioki King'ola, and Scott Geibel
Private sector's role in health service provision in Senegal, Population Council
Proceedings and presentations from the Free State Child Abuse Indaba, Population Council
Process evaluation of community mobilization activities, Zakir Hussain Shah
Progesterone vaginal ring for contraceptive use during lactation, Anita Nath and Régine Sitruk-Ware
Program strategies for reducing inequities in reproductive health services, John Townsend
Promoting healthy spacing between pregnancies in India: Need for differential education campaigns, Mary Philip Sebastian, M.E. Khan, and Sohini Roychowdhury
Protecting hope: Situation analysis of vulnerable children in Uganda 2009, Sam Kalibala and Lynne Elson
Public expenditure on health care in Orissa: Focus on reproductive and child health services, Sarit Kumar Rout
RAPIDS evaluation final report 2005-2009 key findings, Louis Apicella, Katie D. Schenk, and Hena Khan
Reach of media and interpersonal communication in rural Uttar Pradesh: Implications for behavior change communication, Population Council
Real men do. . . real men don't: Young Latino and African American men's discourses regarding sexual health care utilization, Debra Kalmuss and Karen Austrian
Reducing HIV-related stigma: Lessons learned from Horizons research and programs, Julie Pulerwitz, Annie P. Michaelis, Ellen Weiss, Lisanne Brown, and Vaishali Sharma Mahendra
Referral mechanism improves uptake of ART services for HIV+ FP clients, Population Council
Rôle du secteur privé dans l'offre de services de santé au Sénégal, Population Council
Role of advertising agencies in behavior change communication, Population Council