Research on Reproductive Health at WHO : Pushing the Frontiers of Knowledge Biennial Report 2002-2003

This report presents an overview of the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction's (HRP) work over the biennium 2002-2003. Chapter 1 looks at activities in the area of family planning. Chapter 2 outlines research activities carried out in the context of WHO's Making Pregnancy Safer initiative. Research on the control of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, is described in Chapter 3. HRP's work on preventing unsafe abortion, which responds to the recommendations of the International Conference on Population and Development, is described i Preliminaries......Page 1 Contents......Page 3 Acronyms used in this report......Page 5 Preface......Page 7 Family planning......Page 11 Making pregnancy safer......Page 19 Reproductive tract infections......Page 23 Preventing unsafe abortion......Page 27 Adolescent sexual and reproductive health......Page 31 Cooperating with countries......Page 35 Financial overview for the biennium 2002–2003......Page 39 Centres collaborating with HRP in 2002–2003......Page 41 HRP staff, December 2003......Page 43