African Women's Health

African Women's Health
ISBN-10
0865438129
ISBN-13
9780865438125
Category
Africa
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Africa World Press
Author
Meredeth Turshen

Description

This critical collection engages many of the health problems of greatest concern to most African women today: death during pregnancy and the need for assistance in childbirth; the spread of the AIDS epidemic; mental illness and domestic violence, which appears to be increasing along with civil unrest and war; the persistence of harmful practices such as female genital mutilation; and the impact of structural adjustment programmes on health and access to health care.

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