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Are the population policies of India and China responsible for the fertility decline?

Diamond-Smith N, Potts M

International Journal of Environmental Studies, 2010

In the 1970s, policy-makers in both India and China, convinced that reducing population growth was critical for ending poverty, instituted coercive population policies. Yet fertility had already been declining in both countries before the population policies were instituted.

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Maternal mortality: one death every 7 min

Potts M, Prata N, Sahin-Hodoglugil N

Lancet, 2010

This comment in the Lancet explores the role of policy and research in using the prevention of postpartum hemorrhage and suggest a joint meeting by WHO and FIGO to revisit the 2009 statement by WHO which does not recommend the use of misoprostol at the community level.

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Abortion perspectives

Potts M

The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care, 2010

A look at abortion from the perspective of a doctor who has performed abortions, a physician who also has a PhD in embryology, and someone who had the privilege of working all over the world in various aspects of human reproduction and sexuality.

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Maternal mortality in developing countries: challenges in scaling-up priority interventions

Prata N, Passano P, Sreenivas A, Gerdts C

Women's Health, 2010

A review of the interventions targeted at maternal mortality reduction demonstrates that most developing countries face tremendous challenges in the implementation of these interventions, including the availability of unreliable data and the shortage in human and financial resources, as well as limited political commitment.

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Prevention of postpartum hemorrhage at home birth in Afghanistan

Sanghvi H, Ansari N, Prata N, Gibson H, Ehsan A, Smith J

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2010

The Objective of this research is to safety, acceptability, feasibility, and effectiveness of community-based education and distribution of misoprostol for prevention of postpartum hemorrhage at home birth in Afghanistan.

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The health, social, and economic consequences of unsafe abortion: Papers presented at an IUSSP Seminar, Mexico, 2010

Singh S, García S, Guillaume A, Okonofua F, Prata N

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2010

Unsafe abortion continues to be an important factor affecting women's reproductive lives and survival in the developing world, where 98% of all unsafe abortions occur. It has not declined in recent years, continuing at an annual rate of 16 per 1000 women of reproductive age in the developing world according to updated information for 2008. [...]

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THE POPULATION FACTOR: How does it relate to climate change?

Potts M, Marsh L

UC Berkeley, 2010

The human contribution to climate change is driven primarily by high per capita consumption in the North. The poorest 1 billion people living on a dollar or two a day contribute only 3 per cent of the world's total carbon footprint, yet the loss of healthy life-years resulting from global warming could be as much [...]

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Operations Research Projects

Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage in Five Rural Zambian Districts

2010

In Zambia, most of the maternal deaths due to PPH occur in places where there are few skilled birth attendants or a lack of skills or resources to manage bleeding and shock.  This brief summarizes VSI's Zambia program that trained providers on the distribution of misoprostol tablets to women in order to prevent PPH.

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Increasing Access to Injectable Contraceptives in Ethiopia

2010

In Ethiopia the unmet need for family planning is one of the highest in the world; 34% of women who desire to control their fertility lack access to a modern form of contraception.

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Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage in Northern Nigeria

2010

Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) makes a significant contribution to the number of maternal deaths in Nigeria.  This brief summarizes research demonstrating misoprostol is a safe and effective means to control PPH at home births in five communities in Northern Nigeria.

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