Release of "HIM" (Helping Involve Men) CD-ROM
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USAID Working Group and Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Release "HIM" (Helping Involve Men) CD-ROM
Involving Men in Reproductive Health
Reproductive health for women and men cannot be achieved without the
constructive involvement of men. To help men share responsibility for
reproductive health with women, those charged with developing policies
and programs, particularly in developing countries, need access to in-
formation on men's knowledge, attitudes, health needs, and what has
been done elsewhere to reach men. The Men and Reproductive Health Com-
mittee of the Interagency Gender Working Group, supported by USAID's
Office of Population, commissioned the Johns Hopkins Center for Commu-
nication Programs to produce a new tool: a CD-ROM providing a treasure
trove of information on men and reproductive health. The CD is being
published this week by the POPLINE Digital Services Division of JHU /
CCP's Population Information Program.
The new Helping Involve Men (HIM) CD-ROM brings together for the first
time hundreds of documents from around the world about men's participa-
tion in reproductive health. The CD-ROM contains 497 documents totaling
over 11,000 pages. Designed mainly for use by policy makers and program
planners in developing countries, the CD provides easy access to an
"essential library" of important research and programmatic findings and
guidance. The Men and Reproductive Health subcommittee recommended the
documents for the new CD.
Documents on the CD are organized to address major aspects of men's in-
volvement in reproductive health. Categories include: Gender, Couples,
Men & Reproductive Health, IEC & Men, Institutional Influences, and Fu-
ture Research. Each category lists topic questions or statements to
make it easy for the browser to seek out relevant documents. For exam-
ple: What do we know about men's knowledge and opinion of family plan-
ning? Adolescent males: What special attention do they need? What in-
fluence do men have on women's health? Communication to involve men in
reproductive health. What institutional obstacles prevent men from par-
ticipating in healthy reproductive lives?
Also, the CD-ROM features a resources section that lists materials, or-
ganizations, LISTSERVs, and web addresses for follow-up information.
For example, the section on future research includes articles about op-
erations research, research gaps, indicators of men's participation,
less-than-successful men's participation projects, lessons learned, and
recommendations from conferences and literature reviews.
JHU/CCP will distribute the CD at no cost to people in developing coun-
tries.
For more information, contact:
Rick Glasby
CD-ROM manager
POPLINE Digital Services
Center for Communication Programs
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA
Fax: +1-410-659-6266
mailto:popline@jhuccp.org
http://www.jhuccp.org
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