Transforming Health Systems: Gender and Rights in Reproductive Health Manual

Published in 2001, this publication is the product of a five-year collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO), the South African Women's Health Project, and the Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. It is meant to be a training resource for health trainers to use with health managers, planners, policy-makers, and others with responsibilities in reproductive health. Its goal is to equip participants with the analytical tools and skills to integrate the promotion of gender equity and reproductive rights into their reproductive health policies, planning, and programmes.

The curriculum, designed to be run as a stand-alone, two- or three-week course, contains six teaching modules: three foundation modules on gender, the social determinants of health, and rights, and three application modules on available evidence, on policy, and on health systems. Case studies and practical material deal with reproductive health issues, covering a broad spectrum of issues, from sexual début and maternal mortality to HIV/AIDS and sexual violence.

The training curriculum is also available in a CD-ROM version.