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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Population Council"”.
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"If I could properly understand and get the right information...": The sexual and reproductive health needs and rights of women newly diagnosed with HIV: A qualitative study in the Western Cape Province South Africa
… microbicide, Carraguard study carried out by the Population Council and University of Cape Town. This study is novel in its exploration of these issues amongst women who are newly diagnosed and who were recruited outside of a health-care setting.
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A modular device for vaginal administration of multiple therapeutic agents
… is an experimental antiretroviral drug owned by Population Council, New York; Nestorone (NES) is a contraceptive progestin; metronidazole (MET) is an antibiotic commonly used to treat bacterial vaginosis; and lactic acid (LA) and its cyclic dimer form lactide (LT) can maintain protective vaginal …
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From baby boom to birth dearth: an interpretation of the population control movement and its political discourse since 1945 in the United States
… political discourses of the post World War II population movement in the United States. It argues that this movement, in part, was artificially created by members of the upper social class. Its most important representatives were the founder of the Population Council, John D. Rockefeller III …
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Competing and contesting constructions of ‘modern’ womanhood: A vertical case study examining the effects of international development discourse on marriage and education in rural Upper Egypt
… Nations Girl's Education Initiative (UNGEI), Population Council in Egypt developed Ishraq, a literacy and life-skills program targeting rural and adolescent out-of-school girls in Upper Egypt. This dissertation examines how conceptions of womanhood are framed at varying levels of the …
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Negotiating Acceptability of the IUD: Contraceptive Technology, Women's Bodies, and Reproductive Politics
… method that has been used mostly to impose population control on women in developing countries. Simultaneously, I explore the changing meaning of the device over the last 40 years in varying socio-historical contexts. Capitalizing on the analytical tradition of science and technology studies …