Gender
The multi-faceted relationship between gender and HIV and AIDS: how gender impacts on transmission, treatment and testing of HIV and AIDS; gender and issues of stigma; how gender inequality is a key driver of HIV and AIDS; masculinity; violence against women; gender-related barriers to access to treatment; care-giving.
Latest Documents
- New technologies and governance architecture in Africa
- E. Chamberlain / Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health, 2012
- HIV prevention for Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) has largely focused on ensuring HIV negative MSM (MSM-) remain negative. MSM living with HIV (MSM+) have been cast into the role of ‘vectors of transmission’, and preventi...
- HIV prevention with MSM: balancing evidence with rights-based principles of practice
- The Global Forum on MSM & HIV, 2010
- This policy brief includes the following sections: - key challenges to HIV prevention with MSM (men who have sex with men). - contemporary approaches to HIV prevention with MSM. - what global institutions are recommending. - MSM front...
- Understanding and challenging stigma toward men who have sex with men: Cambodia edition - toolkit for action
- International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2010
- In Cambodia, HIV infection is concentrated among key populations at higher risk, including MSM. A STI Sentinel Surveillance Survey found that HIV prevalence among MSM in 2005 was 8.7 percent in Phnom Penh and 0.8 percent in the provin...
- Female sex workers use of sexual health services in Nepal
- L. Ghimire; W.C.S. Smith; E.R.V. Teijlingen / BioMed Central, 2011
- Statistics indicate that more than half of the women with sexually transmitted infections in Nepal sought sexual health services. This study explores female sex workers (FSWs) use of sexual health services in Nepal and the factors ass...
- Factors that increase the risk of intimate partner violence
- T. Abramsky; C.H. Watts; C. Garcia-Moreno / BioMed Central, 2011
- Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a global public health and human rights concern. This multi-country study is sought to identify factors that are consistently associated with abuse across sites, in order to inform the ...
- South African women who experience intimate partner violence have increased incidence of HIV infection
- R.K. Jewkes; K. Dunkle; M. Nduna / The Lancet, 2010
- Research linking gender inequity and gender-based violence to HIV is limited. This paper assess whether intimate partner violence (IPV) and relationship power inequity increase risk of incident HIV infection in South African women. ...
- States must design measures that encompass all forms of violence against women
- C. Vives-Cases; G. Ortiz-Barreda; D. Gil-Gonza´lez / Universidad de Alicante, 2010
- Violence against women (VAW) is a social problem that States must address legally to deal with this source of injustice, inequality, and physical and non-physical health problems. This editorial aims to describe the international situ...
- Traditional leaders wield the power, and they are almost all men: the importance of involving traditional leaders in gender transformation
- Kristin Palitza / Sonke Gender Justice Network, 2010
- How can non-governmental organisations (NGOs) tackle social issues such as HIV, gender equality and violence in rural African communities? A number of them, including South African Sonke Gender Justice network, Ubuntu Institute, CARE ...
- Support for vulnerable sex workers in Malawi
- B. Kalanda / Malawi Medical Journal, 2010
- Sex work has increasingly become a popular means of making money for young girls in the urban areas in Malawi. This article makes reference to an intervention project in Malawi that was implemented in 2004 and sought to empower sex wo...
- What works for women and girls: evidence for HIV/AIDS interventions
- J Gay; K Hardee; M Croce-Galis; S Kowalski; C Gutari; C Wingfield; K Rovin; K Berzins / Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2010
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