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Today’s global policy climate underlines the importance of better addressing non-economic dimensions of well-being and social progress such as health, social engagement, political interest and crime. Education plays an important role in shaping indicators of progress. However, we understand little about the causal effects, the causal pathways, the role of contexts and the relative impacts… Read more
eSchool360 aims to reinvent education in rural Zambia by providing a comprehensive, scaleable, and sustainable one-stop-shop “kit” for starting and running a school that incorporates e-learning and active learning.
Eneza Education partners with schools in Kenya to track and assess students’ knowledge using mobile phones. Students access educational quizzes and learning tools via SMS, which allows them to test and hone their knowledge, while facilitating the collection of data to better inform schools and parents about students’ learning outcomes.
The DiSH project uses interactive video lessons to deliver quality lessons in public primary schools in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, simultaneously training teachers to improve pedagogy and teaching practices.
Medical methods for first trimester abortion have been demonstrated to be both safe and effective. Regimens that combine mifepristone or methotrexate with a prostaglandin such as misoprostol are more efficacous than a prostaglandin alone.
Prostaglandins alone seem to be less effective and more painful than surgical abortion. Evidence is inadequate on the acceptability and side-effects of the two methods. The medical approach avoids the use of anaesthetics; this and the possibility of using it as an outpatient procedure may offer an advantage in under-resourced settings.
Dilatation and curettage, electric vacuum aspiration and manual vacuum aspiration are all safe and effective for first-trimester termination of pregnancy. Electric vacuum aspiration needs less time to perform than dilatation and curettage. Manual vacuum aspiration is associated with less pain than electric vacuum aspiration in cases of early terminations, but manual vacuum aspiration involves greater… Read more
Reproductive health is summarised and the following areas covered: family planning saves lives contraceptive use rises but unmet needs remain widening the options moving forward and an excerpt from ICPD programme action 1994
The world contraceptive use 2010 highlights the following under unmet need for contraception: definition method of computation data sources rationale and interpretation comments and limitations discrepancies between estimates treatment of missing values regional and global estimates data coverage and periodicity
The worldwide demand for family planning services is growing because of two trends: the burgeoning numbers of young people entering childbearing age and the increasing adoption of contraceptive use. “Either trend would lead to greater demand,” said Toshiko Kaneda, co-author of the Population Reference Bureau’s new data sheet, Family Planning Worldwide 2008, “but the two acting… Read more
This fact sheet is on unmet need covering; understanding unmet need reasons for unmet need variation by region characteristics of women with unmet need