Women's Health Issues

AIDS/HIV

• The South African Health Review 2000
• AIDS Law Project
• Early Data From Mother-To-Child HIV Transmission Study in Africa Finds Shortest Effective Regimen Ever
  (UNAIDS, Geneva, 1/2/99)
• Final Declaration from the Dakar Panafrican Conference on Women and AIDS in Africa, December 1998
• Aids Information Dissemination Site Southern Africa
• HivNet.Ch - AIDS Information Tool and Community Forum
• New African Discussion Forum on HIV/AIDS
• Join GENDER-AIDS - the global email network on gender and HIV/AIDS (running since March 1997, membership 730). To view the previous discussion, go to http://www.hivnet.ch:8000/gender-aids/tdm
• HIV/AIDS Resources on the Internet - University of Zambia Medical Library
• Women'sNet Human Rights Pages - Women and Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights (this section contains information on the risk of contracting HIV after rape)

Cancer

• Cancer Association of South Africa
• Breast Cancer Awareness
  Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in South Africa. About 1 in 29 women in the country are likely to develop breast cancer at some point in their lifetime. There is no doubt that breast cancer is a serious, and in some cases, life-threatening disease. However, if it is detected early, it can be effectively treated.
  
• Breast Cancer Center

Family Health

• Our Bodies, Ourselves

Contraception

• The South African Health Review 2000
• Family Health International (USA)
• Office for Population Research at Princeton University (USA)
• Access to Voluntary and Safe Contraception (USA)
• International Planned Parenthood Federation

• Women'sNet Human Rights Pages - Women with Disabilities

Growing older

Sexual rights

• The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) is a non-profit organisation which affirms that sexuality is a natural and healthy part of living
  
• Charter of the International Planned Parenthood Federation
• Formal laws and policies affecting reproductive health from the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy

Reproductive health

• Reproductive Health and Technology at the Millennium, 1/7/99
• Reproductive Health Outlook
• New Electronic Journal on Reproductive Health in South Asia

Sexual orientation

• Women'sNet Human Rights pages - Women and Sexual Orientation Rights
• The Human Rights Watch World Report on Lesbian and Gay Rights
• International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission: Making the Mountain Move- An Activists Guide on How International Human Rights Mechanisms can Work for You.

Social conditions

• Foetal Alcohol Syndrome Study Launched
• Urbanisation and Women's Health in South Africa (William Pick and Diane Cooper, African Journal of Reproductive Health, Volume I, Number 1, March 1997)

Sexually Transmitted Diseases(STD's)

• Atlanta Reproductive Health Center (USA) - site on STDs

Young women's health