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The Female Condom In Ghana: Exploring The Current State Of Affairs And Gauging Potential For Enhanced Promotion, Reshma Naik, Martha Brady Jan 2008

The Female Condom In Ghana: Exploring The Current State Of Affairs And Gauging Potential For Enhanced Promotion, Reshma Naik, Martha Brady

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The female condom (FC) is the only safe and effective female-initiated method that provides simultaneous protection against unintended pregnancy as well as sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. An exploratory exercise was conducted by the Population Council to gain an understanding of the current and historical landscape of FC procurement, distribution, and programming in Ghana and to explore the viability of enhancing national FC promotion. The exercise revealed that a large-scale launch of the FC occurred in Ghana in 2000 and was largely successful in raising product awareness; however, uptake remained low. Momentum has waned since the initial launch and financial …

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Education And Transition To Work Among Youth In Maharashtra, International Institute For Population Sciences (Iips) Jan 2008

Education And Transition To Work Among Youth In Maharashtra, International Institute For Population Sciences (Iips)

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The extent to which India will be able to successfully harness its demographic dividend depends significantly on the situation of its youth, notably on the levels of education and market-oriented skills they attain. In many states, youth have made progress on these fronts. Youth in Maharashtra have made considerable strides in terms of educational attainment, yet it is not clear that they are prepared for the challenges they will face in a globalized world. Looking at the current educational and employment situation of youth in Maharashtra, this policy brief argues that significant investments in terms of appropriate policies and programs …

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Young People's Participation In Civil Society And Political Life In Maharashtra, International Institute For Population Sciences (Iips) Jan 2008

Young People's Participation In Civil Society And Political Life In Maharashtra, International Institute For Population Sciences (Iips)

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Youth participation in civil society and political life is increasingly recognized as an important development objective. The opportunities for participation that young people experience in their communities may influence their development and the types of transitions they make to adulthood. Moreover, behaviors and attitudes relating to community participation that individuals adopt as young people predict lifelong civic affiliations and perspectives. In India, the National Youth Policy 2003 has underscored the role of India’s youth in political decision-making, and has argued for greater representation of youth in appropriate bodies as well as more extensive youth participation in program design and implementation. …

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Terms Of Marriage And Time-Use Patterns Of Young Wives: Evidence From Rural Bangladesh, Sajeda Amin, Luciana Suran Jan 2008

Terms Of Marriage And Time-Use Patterns Of Young Wives: Evidence From Rural Bangladesh, Sajeda Amin, Luciana Suran

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This working paper explores the relationship between marriage arrangements and daily activities of young married women, using detailed time-use data from an adolescent study in rural Bangladesh. Measures of marriage arrangement are payment of dowry and the relative wealth status of natal and marital families. Using multivariate regression analysis, the results show that women’s time spent in domestic work, socializing, and self-care is significantly associated with marriage arrangement variables. Those who paid dowry spent more time in domestic work and less time in self-care and socializing relative to those who did not pay dowry. These patterns of association are similar …

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Multiple Dimensions Of Urban Well-Being: Evidence From India, S. Chandrasekhar, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay Jan 2008

Multiple Dimensions Of Urban Well-Being: Evidence From India, S. Chandrasekhar, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This working paper addresses differences in outcomes across households residing in slums and non-slum urban areas of India. We first established that if utility is defined as access to public goods such as water and sanitation, then residents in non-slum urban areas are unambiguously better off than slum dwellers. On the other hand, we found that the distribution of private goods (monthly per capita expenditure and per capita living area) in non-slum areas does not dominate the distribution of these goods in the slums, implying that non-slum residents are not unequivocally better off than slum residents. Since slums are on …

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Early Marriage And Sexual And Reproductive Health Risks: Experiences Of Young Women And Men In Andhra Pradesh And Madhya Pradesh, India, K.G. Santhya, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Saswata Ghosh Jan 2008

Early Marriage And Sexual And Reproductive Health Risks: Experiences Of Young Women And Men In Andhra Pradesh And Madhya Pradesh, India, K.G. Santhya, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Saswata Ghosh

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The Population Council undertook a large-scale study of married young women and men in two rural settings in India to assess their situation and vulnerability to HIV and other adverse sexual and reproductive health outcomes. Findings of the study clearly underscore the vulnerability of married youth to STI/HIV as a result of risky sexual experiences before, within, and after marriage. Furthermore, there is a need to sensitize healthcare providers to the special needs and vulnerability of married young people and orient them to the need for developing appropriate strategies to reach diverse groups of young people, including married young women …

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Youth In India: Situation And Needs 2006-2007, Executive Summary, Maharashtra, International Institute For Population Sciences (Iips), Population Council Jan 2008

Youth In India: Situation And Needs 2006-2007, Executive Summary, Maharashtra, International Institute For Population Sciences (Iips), Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This executive summary presents, in brief, findings on the situation of youth in Maharashtra, part of a subnational study undertaken by the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, and the Population Council, New Delhi, as part of a project to collect information on key transitions experienced by youth in India. Transitions include those related to education, workforce participation, sexual activity, marriage, health and civic participation, the magnitude and patterns of young people’s sexual and reproductive practices before, within, and outside of marriage, as well as related knowledge, decision-making, and attitudes. The project was implemented in six states of India, namely, …

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Global Environmentalism In Egypt: Whose Concerns Are Being Recognized?, Sandra Stoner Jan 2008

Global Environmentalism In Egypt: Whose Concerns Are Being Recognized?, Sandra Stoner

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

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Georgia Southern University Fact Book, Georgia Southern University Jan 2008

Georgia Southern University Fact Book, Georgia Southern University

Georgia Southern Fact Books (1976-2022)

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"New" Directions In Indian Law Scholarship: An Afterward, Frank Pommersheim Jan 2008

"New" Directions In Indian Law Scholarship: An Afterward, Frank Pommersheim

Faculty Publications

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Aid For Trade: A Roadmap For Success, Phoenix X. F. Cai Jan 2008

Aid For Trade: A Roadmap For Success, Phoenix X. F. Cai

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

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Climate Litigation: Ethical Implications And Societal Impacts, Marilyn Averill Jan 2008

Climate Litigation: Ethical Implications And Societal Impacts, Marilyn Averill

Denver Law Review

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Global Response To Climate Change - From Stockholm To Copenhagen, Anita M. Halvorssen Jan 2008

Global Response To Climate Change - From Stockholm To Copenhagen, Anita M. Halvorssen

Denver Law Review

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A Cooperative Federalism Proposal For Climate Change Legislation: The Value Of State Autonomy In A Federal System, Alice Kaswan Jan 2008

A Cooperative Federalism Proposal For Climate Change Legislation: The Value Of State Autonomy In A Federal System, Alice Kaswan

Denver Law Review

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The State Attorney General's Role In Global Climate Change, John W. Suthers Jan 2008

The State Attorney General's Role In Global Climate Change, John W. Suthers

Denver Law Review

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Climate Change, Constitutional Consignment, And The Political Question Doctrine, James R. May Jan 2008

Climate Change, Constitutional Consignment, And The Political Question Doctrine, James R. May

Denver Law Review

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Carbon Markets In Context: Into Which Component Of Holdren's Equation Do They Fit, Robert Hardaway Jan 2008

Carbon Markets In Context: Into Which Component Of Holdren's Equation Do They Fit, Robert Hardaway

Denver Law Review

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Editor's Note, Rebecca J. Wilkins, Erik Lemmon Jan 2008

Editor's Note, Rebecca J. Wilkins, Erik Lemmon

Denver Law Review

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Accountability In The Administrative Law Judiciary: The Right And The Wrong Kind, Edwin L. Felter Jr. Jan 2008

Accountability In The Administrative Law Judiciary: The Right And The Wrong Kind, Edwin L. Felter Jr.

Denver Law Review

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Tenth Circuit Interpretations Of Garcetti: Limits On First Amendment Protections For Whistle-Blowers, Raj Chohan Jan 2008

Tenth Circuit Interpretations Of Garcetti: Limits On First Amendment Protections For Whistle-Blowers, Raj Chohan

Denver Law Review

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Financial Assistance For Medicaid's Continued Existence: The Need For The United States Supreme Court To Adopt The Tenth Circuit's Definition Of Medical Assistance, Alison C. Sorkin Jan 2008

Financial Assistance For Medicaid's Continued Existence: The Need For The United States Supreme Court To Adopt The Tenth Circuit's Definition Of Medical Assistance, Alison C. Sorkin

Denver Law Review

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Dna Is Different:Implications Of The Public Perception Ofdna Evidence On Police Interrogation Methods, Christine D. Salmon Jan 2008

Dna Is Different:Implications Of The Public Perception Ofdna Evidence On Police Interrogation Methods, Christine D. Salmon

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

These reform proposals have been met with vehement criticism, most of which stem from a concern that any attempt to prohibit or regulate deceptive interrogation methods would decrease the number of confessions and convictions produced by the criminal justice system. With these concerns in mind, this article proposes a different, more moderate reform: a per se ban on the falsification of DNA evidence during police interrogations. This proposal differs from those described above in three important ways. First, the prohibition on fabricating DNA evidence does not require a change in the voluntariness test used to ascertain the admissibility of a …

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Table Of Contents Jan 2008

Table Of Contents

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

The General Assembly in Review

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Mental Health In Virginia, Phillip Hamilton Jan 2008

Mental Health In Virginia, Phillip Hamilton

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

Since the April 16, 2007 tragedy at Virginia Tech, the public's attention has focused on Virginia's mental health system. Like far too many public policy issues that face the government, it often takes a tragedy to bring an issue to the point where real action is taken. Over the years, one of the major issues facing Virginia has been how to best meet the needs of its citizens requiring mental health services. This is not a new issue. Since 1949 there have been many studies of Virginia's mental health system. These studies have emphasized the same issues over and over …

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Promised Reforms Fall Short Of The Mark, Colleen Miller Jan 2008

Promised Reforms Fall Short Of The Mark, Colleen Miller

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

Did the General Assembly pass sweeping mental health law reforms? Do the new laws make it easier to hospitalize individuals against their will, and if so, is that a desirable end? While new legislation rewords our civil commitment statute, do the new words really improve Virginia's mental health care system? In all likelihood, the most significant effect of the new legislation will be making our mental health laws more vulnerable to constitutional challenge, while simultaneously making it more difficult for Virginians to get necessary mental health treatment voluntarily.

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The Role Of Citizens In Environmental Decision-Making, Nicole M. Rovner Jan 2008

The Role Of Citizens In Environmental Decision-Making, Nicole M. Rovner

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

This article will describe five versions of the DEQ legislation from the bill's legislative journal: the bill as introduced, the bill that passed the General Assembly in 2007 with a reenactment clause, the bill introduced on behalf of proponents of board restructuring at the beginning of the 2008 session, the bill introduced on behalf of the restructuring bill's opponents, and the legislation that was enacted and will become effective on July 1, 2008. For each version of the bill, this article seeks to identify views regarding the nature of permitting decisions and the role of citizens in making those decisions.

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Bills Passed By The 2008 Session Of The General Assembly Jan 2008

Bills Passed By The 2008 Session Of The General Assembly

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

A legislative summary about the bills that passed in the 2008 Virginia General Assembly

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Letter From The Editor, Kaite Wallmeyer Payne Jan 2008

Letter From The Editor, Kaite Wallmeyer Payne

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

The Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest is pleased to present you with our annual winter issue. This issue is focused on health care-a topic that has long been at the forefront of political debate. By focusing on healthcare here, the Journal hopes to bring the topic to the forefront of the legal debate as well. The issue is divided into two parts: two independent articles and two student comments.

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Role Of Reactive Oxygen Species Peroxynitrite In Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury, Yiqin Xiong Jan 2008

Role Of Reactive Oxygen Species Peroxynitrite In Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury, Yiqin Xiong

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

Peroxynitrite (PN, ONOO-), formed by nitric oxide radical (•NO) and superoxide radical (O2•-), plays an important role in post-traumatic oxidative damage. In the early work, we determined the temporal characteristics of PN-derived oxidative damage in a rat spinal cord injury (SCI) model. Our results showed 3-nitrotyrosine (3-NT), a specific marker for PN, rapidly accumulated at early time points (1 hr, 3 hrs), after when it plateaued and the high level was sustained to 1 week post injury. The co-localization of 3-NT and lipid peroxidation derived-4-HNE observed in immunohistochemistry indicates PN is involved in lipid peroxidative as …

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Labor, Luck, And Love: Reconsidering The Sanctity Of Separate Property, Shari Motro Jan 2008

Labor, Luck, And Love: Reconsidering The Sanctity Of Separate Property, Shari Motro

Law Faculty Publications

This Article proposes a new alternative to the labor-centered marital property rule. Instead of focusing on how property was acquired, marital property law should look to spouses' overall financial resources and require them to share these resources to the extent they shape their identities during the marriage. Financial capability affects some of the most fundamental aspects of our lives-our health, our education, our work, the neighborhood in which we live. Marriages in which these aspects of spouses' identities are kept separate strike us as jarring. Imagine a husband and wife who sleep in the same bed, under the same roof, …

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