ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the shift toward a more integrated approach to women's health in Mexico, presenting some of the most important advances that have been made over the past ten years and the challenges that remain. The traditionally more liberal donors from private foundations have had their financial assets limited by the economic recession in the United States and have gone through exercises in geographic re-prioritization based on the global political and health situation. Globalization is characterized as the technology-assisted process of "de-nationalization" of markets, policies, and legal systems, or the rise of a "global economy". Health care reform in Mexico included decentralization, which had a negative impact on formerly effective singularly focused, centrally managed programs, such as family planning HIV/AIDS prevention. Mexico's long history of consistently progressive population policies coupled with the strength of civil society and advocacy organizations has helped to offset the power and influence of political and religious ideologues.
