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- WHO: Department of Gender and Women's Health (GWH)
[ www.who.int ]
Languages: English
- WHO: Women's Health
[ www.who.int ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish
Links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events on this topic
- Renew - The Campaign to End Fistula
[ www.endfistula.org ]
Languages: English | French
Obstetric fistula is a devastating injury of childbearing that leaves women with agonising pain, chronic incontinence and - in most cases - a stillborn baby. The global Campaign to End Fistula currently covers more than 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and the Arab region. The goal is to make fistula as rare in developing countries as it is in the industrialized world. UNFPA, 2006
- WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence Against Women (September 2005)
[ www.who.int ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish
WHO study analysing data from interviews with over 24,000 women in countries representing diverse cultural, geographical and urban/rural settings - Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Japan, Peru, Namibia, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand and the United Republic of Tanzania. The study uncovers the forms and patterns of violence against women across these locations and finds that violence from intimate male partners is a major contributor to women's ill-health.
- Online Discussion: Women and Health (including Reproductive Health, AIDS and Human Rights)
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
From October 2004 to January 2005, WomenWatch hosted a series of online discussions on the Platform's critical areas of concern and other important issues to provide input into the review and appraisal of the Bejing Declaration and Platform for Action. All postings and background notes are available for reading as archived online discussion.
- WHO/PAHO: Gender and public health series
[ www.paho.org ]
Languages: English
Publications series
- WHO: The World Health Report
[ www.who.int ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish
World Health Report archives since 1995
- DESA/DAW: Women and Health: Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective into the Health Sector
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
Information on an Expert Group Meeting organized by DAW in collaboration with WHO and UNFPA, 28 September - 2 October 1998
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