Reproductive Health and Rights: Reaching the Hardly Reached

This book from PATH brings together a public health and human rights focus on the reproductive health and rights of women and men who are the most disadvantaged and underserved: the "hardly reached." Each article intends to fill a gap in our understanding of the health needs of those least served by existing reproductive health programmes, including survivors of gender-based violence, refugees, sexual minorities, indigenous women, adolescents and young girls, and women who have been trafficked.

The articles include:

• Article 1: Trafficking in Persons
  
• Article 2: An Interview with Jo Doezema of the Network of Safe Sex Work Projects: Does Attention to Traficking Adversely Affect Sex Workers' Rights?
• Article 3: Reaching Out to Sex Workers
  
• Article 4: Growing Up Gay in the USA
  
• Article 5: Reaching Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
  
• Article 6: Women Under Oppressive Regimes: Women and Religious Fundamentalism
  
• Article 7: Abused and Violated Women in Africa: A Personal Story of Vulnerability to AIDS
  
• Article 8: Girls at Risk: Community Approaches to End Female Genital Mutilation and Treating Women Injured by the Practice
  
• Article 9: Confronting Violence Against Women: Scribbles from a Notepad in India
  
• Article 10: Victims of Gender-based Violence
  
• Article 11: Reaching the Youngest Adolescents with Reproductive Health Programs and Services
  
• Article 12: Women Who Die Needlessly: Maternal Mortality as a Human Rights Issue
  
• Article 13: Involving Men in Reproductive Health: Implications for Reproductive Health and Rights
  
• Article 14: Future Options Foreclosed: Girls Who Marry Early
• About the Authors