Background Emerging evidence and program experience indicate that engaging men in
maternal and newborn health can have considerable health benefits for women and …

Gender-transformative health interventions that involve men and boys are gaining global
reach, adaptability to specific geographical, population and epidemiological contexts, public …

Gender inequality damages the health of millions of girls and women across the globe. It can
also be damaging to men's health despite the many tangible benefits it gives men through …

Despite its reduction over the last decade, the maternal mortality rate in Uganda remains
high, due to in part a lack of access to maternal health care. In an effort to increase access to …

Research suggests that spousal communication and male involvement in decision making
can positively influence family-planning use and continuation. However, few existing studies …

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the
world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 …

In the field of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention, there has been increasing
interest in the role that gender plays in HIV and violence risk, and in successfully engaging …

For more than a century, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to understand
and treat women's reproductive bodies. But only recently have researchers begun to ask …

Background The importance of men's involvement in facilitating women's access to skilled
maternal healthcare in patriarchal societies such as Ghana is increasingly being …

Background Although in most low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) men are decision
makers and control the household budget, their involvement in maternity care is limited …