SysteMALEtizing Resources for Engaging Men in Sexual
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Men in Sexual and Reproductive Health: Maternal and Neonatal Health and
Fatherhood
SysteMALEtizing Resources for Engaging Men in Sexual and Reproductive
Health:
Maternal and Neonatal Health and Fatherhood
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Maternal health is an area in which men can potentially play an important
role. Reducing maternal morbidity and mortality necessarily relies on
the collaboration of other members of a woman’s household, in addition
to health workers and the woman herself. Providing fathers and other family
members more information about the health risks involved in the whole
process, and clarifying for them the important roles they could fill in
identifying and responding to problems, programs can find constructive
ways of recruiting men to support women’s reproductive health and
to learn more about their own. Men can see to women’s nutritional
needs during pregnancy, support women in seeking out prenatal care, and
recognize the symptoms of complications.
Programs can respect and affirm responsible roles men may play already
in their families. Varied evidence suggests that men who are more involved
in the health of their families themselves enjoy better health and closer
relationships with their family members. One profound effect of encouraging
men to be more involved in the nurturing of their children may be to reduce
male violence by building greater closeness between boys and men and by
increasing respect for the work child-rearing requires.
Please note: some of the following links lead to PDF or Powerpoint
documents that may take a little while to load. If no helper program is
available, they will download automatically to your hard drive.
Program Examples:
- Caribbean Fathers, Incorporated. For information on Fathers, Inc.,
see the Communication Initiative at www.comminit.com/experiences/pdskdv12003/experiences-1039.html.
Or Barry Chevannes’ keynote address at the 2003 IGWG Male Involvement
Conference at www.jhuccp.org/igwg/keynotes/BarryChevannes.pdf.
- Cohen, R., et al. “A
Description of A Male-Focused Breastfeeding Promotion Corporate Lactation
Program” in Journal of Human Lactation (2002).
- EngenderHealth. The
New Gender Platforms and Fatherhood (2004).
- Fathers Direct, a
National (UK) Information Centre on Fatherhood (accessed
online June 15, 2006).
- International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). Fulfilling
Fatherhood: Experiences from HIV Positive Fathers (November
2005).
- Population Council. “Effects
of Husband Involvement on Postabortion Patients’ Recovery and
Use of Contraception in Egypt,” in Postabortion Care: Lessons
from Operations Research, pp. 16-27 (1999).
- Population Council. India:
Men’s Involvement in Partner’s Pregnancy Yields Health Benefits
(June 2004).
- Population Council. Men
as Supportive Partners in Reproductive Health. Moving from Rhetoric to Reality (2004).
- Population Council. South
Africa: Antenatal Couples Counseling Is Feasible But Challenging
(February 2006).
- United Nations. Fatherhood
in Adolescence: The Construction of Political Agenda (October
2003).
- UNICEF. Iniciativa
Papa: Improving the Lives of Children, One Father at a Time
(2001).
- UNICEF. Role
of Men in the Lives of Children. A Study of How Improving Knowledge
About Men in Families Helps Strengthen Programming for Children and
Women (December 1997).
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