2006
Reproductive Health
Partner-Delivered Therapy Viable in Resource-Poor
Areas
In South Africa and Brazil, the Population Council has recently studied
alternative methods of notifying partners of women with sexually
transmitted infections (STIs) that they need treatment. These studies
have verified that offering women with STIs the option of bringing
medicines to their partners, rather than requiring partners to come to
the clinic, results in high treatment rates.
2004
Women's Health
Approaches to Researching Women's Reproductive Health
Since the late 1980s,
comprehensive studies from Egypt, India, Nigeria, and Turkey have revealed
the widespread prevalence of reproductive tract and other gynecologic
disorders. These findings have prompted
researchers to expand this work to explore the pervasiveness of these
illnesses and to shed light on factors that place women at risk. But what are the best
ways to conduct this type of research? Population Council senior program
associate Shireen Jejeebhoy; Michael Koenig, associate professor,
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University; and
Christopher Elias, president, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
(PATH), have collaborated on a book, Reproductive Tract Infections and
Other Gynaecological Disorders: A Multidisciplinary Approach, that
tackles this question.
2000
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Women's Health
Syndromic Method Poor at Detecting
STIs in Women
Three recent studies conducted by Population Council researchers
and their colleagues find that the syndromic approach is not an
effective strategy for diagnosing or managing gonorrhea, chlamydia,
and other reproductive tract infections among women. Syndromic management
diagnoses infection based on the presence of vaginal discharge,
lower abdominal pain, or other symptoms, signs, or risk factors,
rather than on laboratory tests. Standard laboratory tests to identify
some sexually transmitted infections are expensive and require equipment
that is generally unavailable to clinics in developing countries.
Clinics began using the syndromic method before it had been adequately
evaluated.
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Salud Reproductiva
Informar a las mujeres reduce la selección inadecuada del DIU
El
diagnóstico de infecciones de transmisión sexual (ITS) en países en vías
de desarrollo es un reto para los prestadores de servicios de salud. En
general, se carece de fondos e infraestructura para realizar pruebas de
amplio alcance. Sin embargo, la detección de estas infecciones es
crítica.os médicos utilizan el “manejo sindrómico”, un enfoque para el
diagnóstico de infecciones que se basa en la presencia de síntomas: flujo
vaginal, dolor en el abdomen y otros. Muchos estudios han mostrado que el
enfoque sindrómico no es efectivo para diagnosticar ITS en mujeres.
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