Cambodian women are at significant risk from unsafe abortion with limited access to contraception or safe services for termination. This participatory research involved women themselves as researchers to better understand perceptions, attitudes and behaviours relating to abortion and family planning.Using the PEER method, local women developed their own research questions, interviewed their friends, and fed back findings to the research team. The work provides significant insights into how women more...

The HINARI program, set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Over 3750 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 113 countries, benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improved world health.

This issue of the monthly e-newsletter on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention features 13 program resources with Web links, and 13 journal article summaries on research from China, El Salvador, Namibia, Peru, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and Zambia.