Objectives This study aims to clarify the associations between mobile phone ownership use
on family planning outcomes. Secondary analysis of DHS data finds that in certain contexts, …

In July 2012, a landmark hearing before the High Court in London found that the British
government had a case to answer concerning human rights abuses, including torture and rapes, …

The Standard Days Method (SDM), a modern fertility awareness-based family planning
method, has been introduced in 30 countries since its development in 2001. It is still unclear to …

Objectives This study examines the influence of women’s birth practices on their daughters’
location of childbirth in Ethiopia, investigating the importance of intergenerational patterns of …

“I Can Be a Mother” Page 1 150 VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1 This study explores the work of Lua
Nova, an innovative rehabilitation centre for at-risk adolescent mothers based in São Paulo …

Julianne R. Weis Page 1 Abstract In the last decades, population surveys have demonstrated
a consistent rise in the average age at first marriage among women across the developing …

As part of the Unilever-funded programme,‘Quality care for mothers and babies at the time
of birth and immediate post-partum period’, Save the Children International (SCI) …

As the first analytic history of Ethiopian medicine, this thesis explores the interchange between
the institutional development of a national medical network and the lived experiences of …

Abstract: This article contributes to larger twentieth-century debates on the process of childbirth's
medicalization and the increasing insertion of medicine into maternal health. Focusing …

… Julianne Weis explores how a colonial mindset on Africa’s place and capacity in relation
to Western medicine was fixed and applied to Ethiopia, even though the East African country …