UN sees gains for women, but not enough in health
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LONDON The number of girls in school and women in parliaments has risen, and their overall access to contraception has improved in the past decade, according to a new report by the UN Population Fund.
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ROME, Jul 18 (IPS) - The women's movement over the last decade has  revealed how legislative guarantees and policy reforms do not  necessarily result in opening institutional spaces, and that  participation does not necessarily translate into influence.
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United Nations officials last week led the world marking the 17th annual World AIDS Day by calling for societies to enable women to protect themselves at a time when nearly half of the 37.2 million people infected are female.
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Progress toward boosting the status of women and providing reproductive health care to all has been steady over the past decade, but billions more dollars are needed to reach goals set 10 years ago, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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31 August 2004 - Developing countries have made tremendous strides in improving reproductive health and tackling women&#39;s rights issues, but rich nations have only paid a little more than half of the $6.
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Women who work are healthier than women who don&#39;t have jobs, suggests a study presented this week at the American Sociological Association meeting in San Francisco.
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The number of HIV-positive women has increased rapidly worldwide over the past two years, according to a new United Nations (UN) study, but Pakistan is among countries where prevalence is low.
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It&#39;s not as if men are conspicuous by their absence at &#39;Countdown 2015: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All&#39;; quite a few have braved the meeting, even though it must be disheartening to hear the shortcomings of their gender so thoroughly
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Description: A United Nations report being issued in advance of World AIDS Day says women now account for nearly half the number of people infected with HIV worldwide.
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15 September 2004 - The world has made genuine progress towards achieving the ambitious programme outlined at the 1994 Cairo population conference, a United Nations review released today finds, but a serious funding shortfall is obstructing efforts to
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The global battle against HIV/Aids will ultimately fail unless serious progress is made on womenâs rights in the developing world, the UN says.
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Children are likely to be  undernourished in households where women are denied a voice in  family decisions like doctor visits, food expenditures and  trips to see friends and relatives, says a report by the U.N.  Children's Fund, UNICEF, released on Monday.
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LONDON, Sep 13 (IPS) - Positive developments have given new rise to hopes   of moving towards the goal of reproductive rights for all women  by 2015,  UNFPA executive director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid says.
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While reproductive planning and women&#39;s equality have improved substantially over the past decade, says a United Nations report, world population will increase from 6.4 billion today to 8.9 billion by 2050, with the 50 poorest countries tripling in
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More women in the workplace does not mean falling fertility, a research economist claims.
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NEW YORK  - Even with new, more objective  criteria, women are still less likely than men to have their  heart condition accurately diagnosed as a heart attack,  researchers report.
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Not having children, having too many, or   too young or not spaced far enough apart could be detrimental   to a woman's health later in life, researchers said on Tuesday.