Reproductive Health
The subject of reproductive health for refugees and displaced persons encompasses a wide range of issues including: family planning; safe motherhood; sexually transmitted diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS; and gender- based violence. Prepared to complement Forced Migration Review 19, which features articles on all of these issues and more, this browse page guides users to background documents, web resources and relevant organizations selected from Forced Migration Online (FMO) that expand further on this important topic.
Introductions/Overviews
- FMO research guide: reproductive health (2004)
- Refugee reproductive health (PATH)
- Special focus: Reproductive health for displaced people: investing in the future, Forced Migration Review (FMR), no. 19 (2004)
- Special focus: Women and reproductive health, Refugee Participation Network 20 (1995)
- Conference 2003: Reproductive Health From Disaster to Development, (PDF file 892k) Brussels, Belgium, October 7-8, 2003 - Proceedings (Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium)
Documents
Selected full-text documents (for more, search in the Digital Library)
- Dehlot, Colette, “Reproductive health and reproductive rights of refugee women in Africa: utopia or reality?” (1995)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), “Gender-aware approaches to relief and rehabilitation: guidelines” (1996)
- Gilbert, Lauren, “The role of legal standards in ensuring the health and reproductive rights of refugee and internally displaced women” (1995)
- Smith, Donna, “Reproductive health of adolescent refugees: issues and needs associated with sexual/gender abuse and sexually transmitted disease” (1996)
Web Resources - refugee-specific
Selected web-based information resources (for more, search the FMO website)
- “Guidelines for HIV/AIDS interventions in emergency settings” (IASC, 2003)
- Partnership guides (UNHCR)
- “Reproductive health during conflict and displacement” (WHO, 2000)
- “Reproductive health in refugee situations: an inter-agency field manual” (UNHCR et al., 1999)
- “Sexual and gender-based violence against refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons: guidelines for prevention and response” (UNHCR, 2003)
- “Towards a comprehensive approach of sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict: a practical guide for programme officers” (University of Ghent, 2003)
Web Resources - general reproductive health
Selected web-based information resources (for more, search the FMO website)
- Access denied: U.S. restrictions on international family planning (Global Gag Rule Impact Project)
- International Conference on Population and Development & Millennium Development Goals (UNFPA) (in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish)
- Popline Database (Johns Hopkins, USAID)
- Reproductive health gateway (Health Information Publications Network) (in English, French, Portuguese or Spanish)
- Sexual Health Exchange (KIT, SafAIDS)
- The application of human rights to reproduction and sexual health: a compilation of the work of international human rights treaty bodies, 3rd edition (Action Canada for Population and Development)
Relevant Organizations
Contact details for relevant organizations (for more, search in the Organizations Directory)
For additional relevant organisations, please refer to Forced Migration Review's reproductive health links page.
- California-Mexico Health Initiative (CMHI)
- Family Health International (FHI)
- Global Health Council
- Health Unlimited
- International Centre for Migration and Health (ICMH)
- International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH)
- International Health Exchange (IHE)
- International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC)
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
- Marie Stopes International
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS)
- Pharos Foundation for Refugee Health Care
- PATH [formally known as Program for Appropriate Technology in Health]
- Reproductive Health Response in Conflict (RHRC) Consortium [Formally the Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium]
- UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development (formerly UK NGO AIDS Consortium)
- UN Population Fund (UNFPA)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
