Resources

Below are links to a wide variety of documents and websites which provide comprehensive information on reproductive health and population issues and policy in both domestic Australian and international contexts.

• ICPD +15: A Global Parliamentary Call to Action - a document encouraging Parliamentarians to:
  - Raise awareness of internationally agreed development goals, specifically the ICPD Programme of Action and the MDGs as they relate to SRHR,
  - Table ‘Parliamentary Question’ tabled in ICPD signatory countries around the world that will enable in-country advocates to press their governments for the above goal,
  - Mark and celebrate the 15th anniversary of the ICPD with coordinated, international parliamentary advocacy,
  - Strengthen links and relationships between national level Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) advocates and national parliamentarians.

• UNFPA State of World Population 2008 "Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights"
  
  
• PGPD Advocacy Kit
  
  

  

  Supported by the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development

• UNFPA Global Population Policy Update
  This newsletter is issued by the UNFPA in its capacity as the secretariat for the biennial International Parliamentarians' Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action (IPCI/ICPD).
  
  
• PGPD Fact Sheets
• World AIDS Day
• UNFPA State of the World Population 2006 "A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration
• UNFPA State of World Population Report 2005 "The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity, Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals"
• UN World Summit
• Millennium Development Goals and sexual and reproductive health
• HIV/AIDS integration with sexual and reproductive health
• International Conference on Population and Development
• General Publications
• Organisations

PGPD Fact Sheets

• What is reproductive health?
• What the ICPD says about abortion

World AIDS Day

Latest reports and statistics

• World AIDS Day 2008
• UNAIDS Report on the global AIDS epidemic 2006
• UNAIDS/WHO AIDS epidemic update 2005

Sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS

• The missing link! Parliamentary hearings linking sexual & reproductive health and HIV/AIDS
  A document from the all-party parliamentary group on population, development and reproductive health in the UK.
• Sexual and Reproductive Health & HIV/AIDS: A Framework for Priority Linkages
  Produced jointly by IPPF, UNFPA, UNAIDS, and the WHO.
• "Preventing HIV/AIDS through Family Planning " , EngenderHealth, 2004

Microbicides - woman-centred prevention method

• Global Campaign for Microbicides
• International Partnership for Microbicides
• Drug Company Support is Critical to Advancing AIDS Prevention Effort: Statement by IPM CEO, Dr. Zeda Rosenberg, on New AIDS Statistics International Partnership for Microbicides, 21/11/2005
  "Upon reviewing the UNAIDS/WHO 2005 AIDS Epidemic Update, Zeda Rosenberg, Sc.D., Chief Executive Officer of IPM, stated: “The UNAIDS report shows that women continue to be disproportionately impacted by HIV. Globally, 17.5 million women are living with HIV – one million more than in 2003…New prevention strategies such as microbicides are desperately needed by the world’s women."
• "Starting to Gel" - Nature, Vol 430, 8 July 2004
• "Gel offers hope in AIDS fight A new microbicide against HIV is being tested by women in Africa" - Globe and Mail, 28/11/2005
• "Don't make women wait for the microbicide revolution" - Guardian Weekly, 25/11/2005

Women and HIV/AIDS

• Global Coalition on Women and AIDS
• "Stop Violence Against Women Fight AIDS" - Issue Brief from Global Coalition on Women and AIDS

UNFPA State of the World Population 2006 "A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration "

UNFPA outlines in this report that women constitute almost half of all international migrants worldwide—95 million. Yet, despite contributions to poverty reduction and struggling economies, it is only recently that the international community has begun to grasp the significance of what migrant women have to offer. And it is only recently that policymakers are acknowledging the particular challenges and risks women confront when venturing into new lands.

• Report
• UNFPA Statement
• UNFPA Press release about women migrants
• UNFPA Press release about young migrant

UNFPA State of World Population Report 2005 "The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity, Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals"

• Report
• UNFPA media release - "World Must Not Allow Gender Apartheid to Wreck Efforts to Make Poverty History"
• Hon Bruce Billson MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs media release- "Australian Support for Equality in Development"

UN World Summit

Draft Outcome Document 13 September 2005

"Women's Reproductive Rights on the Margins at September's UN Summit " (August 2005), Barbara Crossette, Population Reference Bureau

Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and sexual and reproductive health

Addressing violence against women and achieving the Millennium Development Goals, World Health Organisation, 2005

The Millenium Campaign General information about the MDGs

Briefing Cards on SRH and the MDGs –produced by Family Care International

"How Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services is Key to the MDGs", Population Action International, September 2005

Millenium Development Goals - information from the International Planned Parenthood Federation about the MDGs and sexual and reproductive health, including information on the World Summit.

Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals”–Final report of the UN Millennium Project (also known as the Sachs Report)

In Larger Freedom”–report of the Secretary-General of the UN, Kofi Annan, to the 60th General Assembly, September 2005.

"Australia's MDG8 Progress Report", AusAID

HIV/AIDS integration with sexual and reproductive health

"Preventing HIV/AIDS through Family Planning" , EngenderHealth, 2004

International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)

International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) –The Conference

ICPD Programme of Action – The guiding document for the work for the PGPD.

General publications

"Why are Population and Development Issues not Given Priority?" Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Vol 20, No 1, April 2005

AusAID green books : statistical Summary of Australian Government Aid Expenditure.

Who's got the power? Transforming health systems for women and children - Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health, Millenium Project, 2005

The central thrust of Who's Got the Power? is that dramatic, meaningful, sustainable progress toward decreasing child and maternal mortality requires an intense focus on improving health systems. The authors highlight that change is possible and they advance a comprehensive action plan that recommends the rapid and equitable sale-up of interventions such as integrated management of childhood illness, the universal provision of emergency obstetric care and sexual and reproductive health services, and the provision of strengthened health systems.

Gender Budget Initiatives - Strategies, Concepts and Experiences Papers from a high level international conference "Strengthening Economic and Financial Governance through Gender Responsive Budgeting", Brussels, 16-18 October 2001

OECD DAC peer review report on Australia. Review of Australian Aid January 2005.

Publications – by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

Organisations

ARHA Australian Reproductive Health Alliance

IPPF –International Planned Parenthood Federation.

UN – The United Nations.

UNFPA – United Nations Population Fund.