Why global reproductive health?

Global warming and reproductive health.

The largest absolute numbers of maternal deaths occur among the 40-50 million women who deliver annually without a skilled birth attendant. Most of these deaths occur in countries with a total fertility rate of greater than 4. The combination of global warming and rapid population growth in the Sahel and parts of the Middle East poses a serious threat to reproductive health and to food security...

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: GLOBAL INFERTILITY TREND Professor

I am highly delighted to be called upon to give a keynote address in this very important conference and on the theme: “Reproductive Health: Global Infertility Trend”. Initially, I was a bit worried why a Gynaecologist should be called upon to address a gathering of very seasoned Physiologists but when I remembered that the journey to Gynaecology started with Physiology and Physiology is the bed...

Global Health Politics: Neither Solidarity nor Policy; Comment on “Globalization and the Diffusion of Ideas: Why We Should Acknowledge the Roots of Mainstream Ideas in Global Health”

The global health agenda has been dominating the current global health policy debate. Furthermore, it has compelled countries to embrace strategies for tackling health inequalities in a wide range of public health areas. The article by Robert and colleagues highlights that although globalization has increased opportunities to share and spread ideas, there is still great asymmetry of power accor...

Perpetuating power: some reasons why reproductive health has stalled.

The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development represented a paradigm shift from vertical population control programmes to the broad-based promotion of sexual and reproductive health as human rights, through strengthening of health services and dealing with the underlying social determinants of health. In its Programme of Action, the global community set ambitious targets for r...

Of Politicians and Technocrats, and Why Global Health Scholars Are Inevitably a Bit of Both: A Response to Recent Commentaries