This paper explores low levels of women's health service utilization for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in Nepal. We interviewed 120 women individually and 53 in focus groups. Predictors of lower utilisation were self-medication, consultation with faith healers, inadequate knowledge of STIs, belief about causes, fear, social taboos and stigmatisation, womens secondary status, and presen...

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4 5 6 Thomas Kohler, Christopher Weidenmaier and Andreas Peschel 7 8 9 10 11 1 Cellular and Molecular Microbiology Division, Medical Microbiology and Hygiene 12 Institute, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany 13 2 Brigham and Womens Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 14 Boston, USA 15 16 17 18 19 Correspondence should be addressed to A.P. 20 E-mail andreas.peschel@un...

MOJ Womens Health 2017, 5(4): 00129 Perioperative prophylaxis with Danazol and C1 inhibitor concentrate (C1-INH) are commonly used to prevent angioedema episodes. Anaesthesia management and perioperative implications have been recently commented by some authors [3]. Airway oedema and hypovolemic shock due to the tissue leak of fluids are especially significant in the perioperative period, chall...

Summarizing the incomplete results of the UNESCO Programme on ‘Good Practice in Promoting Gender Equality in Higher Education’, the author asks that any assessment of the progress made in the area of gender-sensitive education take regional specificities into account. The regional environment is at best neutral and usually hostile to feminism in subtle ways. In spite of the lack of tradition an...