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ADVOCACY

General

• HRP at 40: what they say
  A history of scientific achievement to advance sexual and reproductive health
  18 June 2012
• Implementation Research in HRP
  Operationalizing the United Nations Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health
  30 June 2011
• Universal access to reproductive health
  Accelerated actions to enhance progress on Millennium Development Goal 5 through advancing Target 5B
  2 February 2011
• Promoting sexual and reproductive health for persons with disabilities
  WHO/UNFPA guidance note
  3 December 2009
• Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR)
  Partner brief
  10 June 2009
• Achieving Millennium Development Goal 5: target 5A and 5B on reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health
  Briefing note
  20 May 2009
• Providing the foundation for sexual and reproductive health
  A record of achievement
  7 June 2008
• The Lancet sexual & reproductive health series
  Six papers
  31 December 2006
• The Lancet sexual and reproductive health series
  Executive summary
  16 September 2006
• Reproductive health strategy to accelerate progress towards the attainment of international development goals and targets
  Global strategy adopted by the 57th World Health Assembly
  22 May 2004

Female genital mutilation

• An update on WHO's work on female genital mutilation (FGM)
  Progress report
  19 May 2011
• Female genital mutilation programmes to date: what works and what doesn't
  Policy brief
  19 May 2011
• Global strategy to stop health-care providers from performing female genital mutilation
  UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIFEM, WHO, FIGO, ICN, MWIA, WCPA, WMA
  28 May 2010
• Platform for Action towards the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C)
  A matter of gender equality
  10 December 2008
• Eliminating female genital mutilation
  An interagency statement - OHCHR, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNECA, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIFEM, WHO
  11 March 2008
• Female genital mutilation and obstetric outcome
  WHO collaborative prospective study in six African countries
  31 December 2006
• Female genital mutilation: a handbook for frontline workers
  31 December 2000
• Female genital mutilation: programmes to date: what works and what doesn't
  A review
  31 December 1999

Infertility

• Mother or nothing: the agony of infertility
  News - WHO Bulletin
  1 December 2010

Family planning

• Cutting-edge global research on family planning and improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health
  26 October 2012
• Family planning for health and development: actions for change
  Meeting report
  1 May 2010
• Emergency contraception: dispelling the myths and misperceptions
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2010;88:243-243. doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.077446
  14 April 2010
• Repositioning family planning
  Guidelines for advocacy action
  19 August 2008
• Glion consultation on strengthening the linkages between reproductive health and HIV/AIDS: family planning and HIV/AIDS in women and children
  31 December 2006
• Family planning: the unfinished agenda
  The Lancet Sexual & reproductive health series
  18 November 2006
• Sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS: a framework for priority linkages
  31 December 2005

Gender and rights

• Preventing gender-biased sex selection
  An interagency statement OHCHR, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women and WHO
  14 June 2011
• An update on WHO's work on female genital mutilation (FGM)
  Progress report
  19 May 2011
• Female genital mutilation programmes to date: what works and what doesn't
  Policy brief
  19 May 2011
• Is it all about sex? Entre nous No. 66 - The European magazine for sexual and reproductive health
  The relationship between gender and sexual and reproductive health
  12 May 2007
• Advancing safe motherhood through human rights
  31 December 2001

Linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS

• Implementation Research in HRP
  Operationalizing the United Nations Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health
  30 June 2011
• Advancing the sexual and reproductive health and human rights of people living with HIV
  Guidance package
  9 November 2009
• Glion consultation on strengthening the linkages between reproductive health and HIV/AIDS: family planning and HIV/AIDS in women and children
  31 December 2006
• Global strategy for the prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections: 2006-2015.
  Key messages
  7 May 2006
• Sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS: a framework for priority linkages
  31 December 2005
• Reproductive health strategy to accelerate progress towards the attainment of international development goals and targets
  Global strategy adopted by the 57th World Health Assembly
  22 May 2004

Maternal and perinatal health

• Advancing MDGs 4, 5 and 6: impact of congenital syphilis elimination
  Partner brief
  17 June 2010
• High-level consultation to accelerate progress towards achieving maternal and child health Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 in South-East Asia
  Ahmedabad, India, 14-17 October 2008
  13 October 2009
• Achieving Millennium Development Goal 5: target 5A and 5B on reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health
  Briefing note
  20 May 2009
• The global elimination of congenital syphilis: rationale and strategy for action
  4 September 2008
• Eliminating congenital syphilis. A global health priority
  14 September 2005
• Make every mother and child count
  World Health Report 2005
  13 May 2005
• Global action for skilled attendants for pregnant women
  31 December 2002
• Advancing safe motherhood through human rights
  31 December 2001
• Reduction of maternal mortality
  A joint WHO/UNFPA/UNICEF/World Bank statement
  23 October 1999

Reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS

• Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
  The importance of a renewed commitment to STI prevention and control in achieving global sexual and reproductive health
  16 May 2013
• Emergence of multi-drug resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae - Threat of global rise in untreatable sexually transmitted infections
  Fact sheet
  5 April 2011
• Advancing MDGs 4, 5 and 6: impact of congenital syphilis elimination
  Partner brief
  17 June 2010
• The global elimination of congenital syphilis: rationale and strategy for action
  4 September 2008
• Global strategy for the prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections: 2006 - 2015. Breaking the chain of transmission
  19 May 2007
• Global control of sexually transmitted infections
  The Lancet Sexual & reproductive health series
  2 December 2006
• Global strategy for the prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections: 2006-2015.
  Key messages
  7 May 2006
• Eliminating congenital syphilis. A global health priority
  14 September 2005

Violence against women

• Violence against women
  The health sector responds
  21 May 2013
• Violence against women: an urgent public health priority
  Editorial - WHO Bulletin
  7 January 2011