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Rethinking Differences and Rights in Sexual and Reproductive Health,
published by Family Health International in collaboration with the Center
for Information and Development of Women (CIDEM), La Paz, Bolivia, is now
online at http://www.fhi.org/en/fp/fpother/genderguid/gendpart1.html
<http://www.fhi.org/en/fp/fpother/genderguid/gendpart1.html> .  The manual,
developed with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development,
promotes an approach to sexual and reproductive health care that recognizes
different needs and perspectives within a context of respect for the rights
and dignity of men and women.  It is designed to provide health
professionals with a framework for examining the quality of care, including
the quality of human relations, technical quality, and quality of
administration and management of health services.  The training steps
outlined in the manual aim to:
*       Create opportunities for reflection and action in the field of
gender-sensitive quality care.
*       Provide basic tools that providers can use in their everyday
practice: key concepts, techniques and practices, and criteria for
implementing quality care.
*       Develop capacity for critical analysis that permits participants to
use key concepts and criteria to recognize, analyze and respond to users'
realities and institutional practices.

Limited quantities of the manual are available from FHI in English and
Spanish at no cost to developing country health agencies.  For more
information, please contact: [log in to unmask]
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