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  1. The requirement for ultrasound to establish gestational age among women seeking abortion can be a barrier to access. Last menstrual period dating without clinical examination should be a reasonable alternative...

    Authors: Deborah Constant, Jane Harries, Jennifer Moodley and Landon Myer
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:100
  2. Promoting respect and dignity is a key component of providing quality care during facility-based childbirth and is becoming a critical indicator of maternal health care. Providing quality care requires essenti...

    Authors: Charity Ndwiga, Charlotte E Warren, Julie Ritter, Pooja Sripad and Timothy Abuya
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:99
  3. The risk of death from complications relating to pregnancy and childbirth over the course of a woman’s lifetime is higher in the developing countries. Improving the health of mothers and children through well-...

    Authors: Sewnet Kidanu, Genet Degu and Tenaw Yimer Tiruye
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:98
  4. The original version of this article [1] unfortunately contained a mistake. All occurrences in the main text referring to the research carried out in the following countries: Brazil, Honduras and Columbia should ...

    Authors: Moazzam Ali, Rachel Folz, Kelsey Miller, Brooke Ronald Johnson Jr and James Kiarie
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:97

    The original article was published in Reproductive Health 2017 14:18

  5. To successfully develop and implement school-based sexual health interventions for adolescent girls, such as screening for Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and Trichomonas vaginalis, it is important ...

    Authors: George Wanje, Linnet Masese, Ethel Avuvika, Anisa Baghazal, Grace Omoni and R. Scott McClelland
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:95
  6. There is an emerging focus on adolescent health within the global health community as we come to recognize that the adolescent years are formative in determining health and health-related behaviours across the...

    Authors: Ashley Vandermorris and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:94
  7. Factors influencing fertility desires among HIV-infected individuals remain poorly understood. With new recommendations for universal HIV treatment and increasing antiretroviral therapy (ART) access, we sought...

    Authors: James Ayieko, Angeline Ti, Jill Hagey, Eliud Akama, Elizabeth A Bukusi, Craig R Cohen and Rena C Patel
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:93
  8. Pricking, classified as female genital cutting (FGC) type IV by the World Health Organization, is an under-researched area gaining momentum among diaspora communities. Our aim was to explore factors associated...

    Authors: Anna Wahlberg, Sara Johnsdotter, Katarina Ekholm Selling, Carina Källestål and Birgitta Essén
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:92
  9. The postponement of parenthood may increase the number of couples experiencing infertility and prolonged time to pregnancy. Previous research has revealed that childless people are not well informed regarding ...

    Authors: Teresa Almeida-Santos, Cláudia Melo, Ana Macedo and Mariana Moura-Ramos
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:91
  10. Systematic studies on the association between men’s sexual dysfunction (low sexual desire, ejaculation disorders, erectile dysfunctions, genital ulcers, testicular disorders, prostate cancer or sexually transm...

    Authors: Emmanuel O. Amoo, Adekunbi K. Omideyi, Theophilus O. Fadayomi, Mofoluwake P. Ajayi, Gbolahan A. Oni and Adenike E. Idowu
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:90
  11. Dimensions of social capital relevant to health in pregnancy are sparsely described in the literature. This study explores dimensions of social capital and the mechanisms in which they could affect the health ...

    Authors: Thilini Chanchala Agampodi, Thilde Rheinländer, Suneth Buddhika Agampodi, Nicholas Glozier and Sisira Siribaddana
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:89
  12. The main objective is to examine how the Paraguayan laws, policies and regulations (hereafter referred to as normative guidance) specifically address adolescents and their contraceptive information and service...

    Authors: Kathya Cordova-Pozo, Sarah Borg, Andrea J. Hoopes, Alma Virginia Camacho-Hubner, Fanny Corrales-Ríos, Adriane Salinas-Bomfim and Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:88
  13. The issue of breaking bad news in assisted reproductive technology (ART) has been only partially explored by literature, and although some recommendations are available, specific guidelines are lacking. The pr...

    Authors: Daniela Leone, Julia Menichetti, Lorenzo Barusi, Elisabetta Chelo, Mauro Costa, Luciana De Lauretis, Anna Pia Ferraretti, Claudia Livi, Arne Luehwink, Giovanna Tomasi and Elena Vegni
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:87
  14. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health problem with devastating effects on young women’s health. These negative effects increase when the exposure to IPV lasts for a long time and exposure at an ea...

    Authors: Amaia Maquibar, Carmen Vives-Cases, Anna-Karin Hurtig and Isabel Goicolea
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:86
  15. Increasingly, the health and rights of adolescents are being recognized and prioritized on the global agenda. This presents us with a “never-before” opportunity to address adolescent contraception. This is tim...

    Authors: Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, Pooja S. Parameshwar, Matti Parry, Catherine Lane, Gwyn Hainsworth, Sylvia Wong, Lindsay Menard-Freeman, Beth Scott, Emily Sullivan, Miles Kemplay and Lale Say
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:85
  16. Adolescent fertility rates in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) remain unacceptably high, especially compared to the region’s declining total fertility rates. The Region has experienced the slowest progres...

    Authors: Sonja Caffe, Marina Plesons, Alma Virginia Camacho, Luisa Brumana, Shelly N. Abdool, Silvia Huaynoca, Katherine Mayall, Lindsay Menard-Freeman, Luis Andres de Francisco Serpa, Rodolfo Gomez Ponce de Leon and Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:83
  17. Malawi introduced an ambitious public health program known as “Option B+” which provides all HIV-infected pregnant and breastfeeding women with lifelong combination antiretroviral therapy, regardless of WHO cl...

    Authors: Monique van Lettow, Hannock Tweya, Nora E. Rosenberg, Clement Trapence, Virginia Kayoyo, Florence Kasende, Blessings Kaunda, Mina C. Hosseinipour, Michael Eliya, Fabian Cataldo, Salem Gugsa and Sam Phiri
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:82
  18. Community-centred health interventions, such as Safe Motherhood Action groups (SMAGs), have potential to lead to desired health behavioural change and favourable health outcomes. SMAGs are community-based volu...

    Authors: Cephas Sialubanje, Karlijn Massar, Larah Horstkotte, Davidson H. Hamer and Robert A.C. Ruiter
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:81
  19. Women with disabilities are less likely to receive maternal healthcare services compared to women without disabilities. While few studies have reviewed healthcare experience of women with disabilities, no stud...

    Authors: Hridaya Raj Devkota, Emily Murray, Maria Kett and Nora Groce
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:79
  20. The management of menstruation has come to the fore as a barrier to girls’ education attainment in low income contexts. Interventions have been proposed and piloted, but the emerging nature of the field means ...

    Authors: Julie Hennegan, Catherine Dolan, Laurel Steinfield and Paul Montgomery
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:78
  21. In Tanzania, teenage pregnancy rates are still high despite the efforts being made to reduce them. Not enough is known about how adolescents experience and cope with sexuality and teenage pregnancy. Over the p...

    Authors: Constanze Pfeiffer, Collins K Ahorlu, Sandra Alba and Brigit Obrist
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:77
  22. Intimate partner physical violence is a common global phenomenon. About 30.00% and 38.83% of women in the world and in sub-Saharan Africa experienced physical violence by their partner respectively in 2013. Th...

    Authors: Berhane Hailu Gebrezgi, Marta Berta Badi, Endashaw Admassu Cherkose and Negassie Berhe Weldehaweria
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:76
  23. Morocco is facing a growing prevalence of diabetes and according to latest figures of the World Health Organization, already 12.4% of the population are affected. A similar prevalence has been reported for ges...

    Authors: Bettina Utz, Bouchra Assarag, Amina Essolbi, Amina Barkat, Nawal El Ansari, Bouchra Fakhir, Alexandre Delamou and Vincent De Brouwere
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:75
  24. Strengthening contraceptive services in sub Saharan Africa is critical to achieve the FP 2020 goal of enabling 120 million more women and girls to access and use contraceptives by 2020 and the Sustainable Deve...

    Authors: Rita Kabra, Moazzam Ali and James Kiarie
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:74

    The Correction to this article has been published in Reproductive Health 2017 14:145

  25. With increasing acceptance of premarital sex among young Chinese women, the rates of unintended pregnancies and induced abortions are becoming alarmingly high, suggesting the needs of educating women with adeq...

    Authors: Yuan He, Ning Zhang, Jue Wang, Na He, Yan Du, Jing-Xin Ding, Ying Zhang, Xiao-Tian Li, Jian Huang and Ke-Qin Hua
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:73
  26. The MObile Technology for Improved Family Planning (MOTIF) trial assessed a mobile phone-based intervention comprising voice messages and counsellor support to increase post-abortion contraception at four Mari...

    Authors: Chris Smith, Sokhey Ly, Vannak Uk, Ruby Warnock and Caroline Free
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:72
  27. Long-acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) are highly effective in preventing pregnancy, cost effective, and increasing in popularity. It is unclear whether changes in IUD use ar...

    Authors: Brandon Howard, ElizaBeth Grubb, Maureen J. Lage and Boxiong Tang
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:70

    The Correction to this article has been published in Reproductive Health 2017 14:126

  28. Bangladesh has experienced a sevenfold increase in its contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) in less than forty years from 8% in 1975 to 62% in 2014. However, despite this progress, almost one-third of pregnanci...

    Authors: Fauzia Akhter Huda, Yolande Robertson, Sabiha Chowdhuri, Bidhan Krishna Sarker, Laura Reichenbach and Ratana Somrongthong
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:69
  29. Residential accommodation for expectant mothers adjacent to health facilities, known as maternity waiting homes (MWH), is an intervention designed to improve access to skilled deliveries in low-income countrie...

    Authors: Elizabeth G. Henry, Katherine Semrau, Davidson H. Hamer, Taryn Vian, Mary Nambao, Kaluba Mataka and Nancy A. Scott
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:68
  30. There is a need for a clear and actionable definition of maternal sepsis, in order to better assess the burden of this condition, trigger timely and effective treatment and allow comparisons across facilities ...

    Authors: Mercedes Bonet, Vicky Nogueira Pileggi, Marcus J Rijken, Arri Coomarasamy, David Lissauer, João Paulo Souza and Ahmet Metin Gülmezoglu
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:67

    The Correction to this article has been published in Reproductive Health 2018 15:6

  31. Access to adequate antenatal care (ANC) is critical in ensuring a good maternal health and in preventing maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. South Sudan has one of the world’s poorest health indicat...

    Authors: Calistus Wilunda, Chiara Scanagatta, Giovanni Putoto, Francesca Montalbetti, Giulia Segafredo, Risa Takahashi, Serge André Mizerero and Ana Pilar Betrán
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:65
  32. Improving healthcare providers’ capacities of prevention and treatment of female genital mutilation (FGM) is important given the fact that 200 million women and girls globally are living with FGM. However, tra...

    Authors: Jasmine Abdulcadir, Lale Say and Christina Pallitto
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:64
  33. The physical and psychological impact of female genital mutilation / cutting (FGM/C) can be substantial, long term, and irreversible. Parts of the health sector in Australia have developed guidelines in the ma...

    Authors: Nesrin Varol, John J. Hall, Kirsten Black, Sabera Turkmani and Angela Dawson
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:63
  34. The Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health introduced provision of the contraceptive Implanon at community level by trained health extension workers in 2009. However, little is known regarding the utilization an...

    Authors: Desta Gebre-Egziabher, Araya Abrha Medhanyie, Mussie Alemayehu and Fisaha Haile Tesfay
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:62
  35. So-called virginity testing, also referred to as hymen, two-finger, or per vaginal examination, is the inspection of the female genitalia to assess if the examinee has had or has been habituated to sexual inte...

    Authors: Rose McKeon Olson and Claudia García-Moreno
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:61
  36. Disrespect and abuse of women during institutional childbirth services is one of the deterrents to utilization of maternity care services in Ethiopia and other low- and middle-income countries. This paper desc...

    Authors: Ephrem D. Sheferaw, Eva Bazant, Hannah Gibson, Hone B. Fenta, Firew Ayalew, Tsigereda B. Belay, Maria M. Worku, Aelaf E. Kebebu, Sintayehu A. Woldie, Young-Mi Kim, T. van den Akker and Jelle Stekelenburg
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:60
  37. Two hundred million girls and women in the world are estimated to have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), and another 15 million girls are at risk of experiencing it by 2020 in high prevalence countrie...

    Authors: Rajat Khosla, Joya Banerjee, Doris Chou, Lale Say and Susana T. Fried
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:59
  38. The aim of this case series is to describe the experience of using the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG) in the management of severe Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) and shock, and the value of implementing t...

    Authors: María Fernanda Escobar, Carlos Eduardo Füchtner, Javier Andrés Carvajal, Albaro José Nieto, Adriana Messa, Sara Sofía Escobar, Angélica María Monroy, Angélica María Forero, José David Casallas, Marcela Granados and Suellen Miller
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:58
  39. Despite all the evidence corroborating the selective use of episiotomy and although routine use of the procedure is contraindicated, there are no evidences corroborating if episiotomy is necessary in any circu...

    Authors: M. M. Amorim, Isabela Cristina Coutinho, Inês Melo and Leila Katz
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:55

    The Correction to this article has been published in Reproductive Health 2017 14:135

  40. Although vasectomy is effective and less expensive contraceptive method, only few men are using it in Africa. The main reason for low level use may be low knowledge about vasectomy among men. Only few studies ...

    Authors: Abrham Jemberie Temach, Gedefaw Abeje Fekadu and Anemaw Asrat Achamyeleh
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:54
  41. Investments in the nearly two billion young people, aged 10–24 years, in the world today are necessary to meet global development commitments, specifically the Sustainable Development Goals and Ending Preventa...

    Authors: Fariyal Fatma Fikree, Catharine Lane, Callie Simon, Gwyn Hainsworth and Patricia MacDonald
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:53
  42. Infertility treatment decisions require people to balance multiple priorities. Within couples, partners must also negotiate priorities with one another. In this study, we assessed the family-building prioritie...

    Authors: Elizabeth A. Duthie, Alexandra Cooper, Joseph B. Davis, Jay Sandlow, Katherine D. Schoyer, Estil Strawn and Kathryn E. Flynn
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:52
  43. In Australia, those who migrate as children or adolescents (1.5 generation migrants) may have entered a new cultural environment at a crucial time in their psychosexual development. These migrants may have to ...

    Authors: T. Dune, J. Perz, Z. Mengesha and D. Ayika
    Citation: Reproductive Health 2017 14:50

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