Spring 2005
Editor's Note
Richard Hsu
Features
The Business of Birth Control
Debora L. Spar and Briana Huntsberger
One Choice Is No Choice: The need for female-controlled HIV prevention tools for women and girls worldwide
Katy Backes, MPA, Anna Forbes, MSS and Chelsea Polis
Breaking The Impasse: Emergency contraception and the abortion debate
Tara Shochet, MPH and Wendy Chavkin, MD, MPH
The Politics of Emergency Contraception in the Arab World: Reflections on Western assumptions and the potential influence of religious and social factors
Lisa Wynn, PhD, Angel M. Foster, DPhil, Aida Rouhana, MPH, and James Trussell, PhD
In Focus: Women's Health
Why Girls? The Importance of Developing Gender-Specific Health Promotion Programs for Adolescentirls
Tracy R. Nichols, PhD and Amanda S. Birnbaum, PhD, MPH
Measuring HIV in the Female Genital Tract and How This Affects Sexual and Reproductive Choices
Joseph I. Harwell, MD and Susan Cu-Uvin, MD
Science, Politics and Mammography: An International Focus
Madelon L. Finkel, PhD
Health Highlights
Micronutrient Deficiencies: New solutions to a seemingly irresolvable problem
Paz Etcheverry, Ian J. Griffin and Steven A. Abrams
The UK National Health Service: Demands, responsibilities and the reconceptualization of citizenship
Ian Shaw, PhD
International: Drug Trials in Developing Countries
Ethical and Policy Implications of Clinical Drug Trials Conducted in Developing Countries
Solomon R. Benatar, MBChB, FRCP and Theodore E. Fleischer, JD, LLM
Clinical Drug Testing In TheDeveloping World: Ethical and policy implications
Joseph M. Mfutso-Bengo, MA, PhD and Adamson S.Muula, MB, BS, MPH
Change in US Research Policies and Directives Are Needed to Remove Barriers on HIV-1 Operational Research Programs in Developing Countries: A case report of two NIH clinical trials in South Africa
Luis J. Montaner, DPhil, James A. McIntyre, MD, Charles
van der Horst, MD and Ian Sanne, MD
Gender and HIV Vaccine trials: Ethics and social science issues
Douglas R. Wassenaar, PhD, Nicola W. Barsdorf, MHS and Linda M. Richter, PhD |