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
 
   
 

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