Condoms and other contraceptives
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- Protecting sex workers from violence and HIV risk in Cambodia
- ( C. Jenkins / USA Agency for International Development , 2006)
- As one of the few countries that have managed to check the spread of HIV, Cambodia is widely praised as a success story. This success is often attributed to the country's 100% condom programme. Howeve...
Advocating for family planning services in Africa
- ( Africa's Health in 2010 (Academy for Education Development) , 2008)
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Provision of family planning services in Africa is hindered by poverty, poor access to services and commodities, poor coordination of the programmes, and dwindling donor funding. In addition, tradi...
- Advocating a sexual and reproductive health agenda for Africa’s children.
- ( S.C. Thomsen / Child Rights Information Network , 2007)
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This report is an overview of the strategies children adopt for dealing with sexuality and relationships in the face of the HIV/AIDS scourge in sub-Saharan Africa. It is aimed at providing stakehol...
- HIV/AIDS and sex education needs to cater for the range of choices and preferences among young people, and not be dictated by ideological concerns.
- ( T. Boler;R. Ingham / ActionAid International , 2007)
- This report from ActionAid International discusses the viewpoints from a working group on abstinence only education for the reduction of HIV transmission. The report is presented as a debate between a...
- Continued barriers to access and use of condoms must be overcome
- ( J. Drazin;M.A. Torres;K. Daly / International Council of AIDS Services Organsiations , 2007)
- The failure to remove barriers that determine whether a person can access and use a condom is one of the biggest impediments to preventing millions more HIV infections. This advocacy briefing from Int...
- Questions remain about programmes that provide access to the female condom
- ( Grace Osewe;Ellen Weiss;Steven Mobley / , 1999)
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Opportunities and challenges for promoting new HIV prevention methods among women sex workers in China
- ( Margaret R. Weeks;Maryann Abbott;Susu Liao;Wang Yu;Bin He;Yuejiang Zhou;Liu Wei;Jingmei Jiang / Journal of Sex Research , 2007)
- This article from the Journal of Sex Research reports high levels of awareness about HIV prevention methods among women sex workers in southern China. It shows the women are using a range of contracep...
- US policies on HIV are putting sex workers at risk
- ( Network of Sex Work Projects , 2006)
- This issue of Research for Sex Work highlights the negative impact which the United States (US) HIV policy is having on sex workers in developing countries. Since 2003 the US government has demanded t...
Factual information and arguments for condom use
- ( H. Jackson;R. Raj / United Nations Population Fund , 2007)
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The purpose of this booklet is to provide factual information that can be used to foster a positive attitude towards condom use. The message is kept simple and focuses on responding to common, reoc...
- Research and resources on good practice in youth-friendly sexual health services
- ( E. Scholl;W. Finger / YouthNet, Family Health International , 2007)
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Often health services for young people address contraception or prevention of HIV/STIs, but not both. Would an integrated approach to sexual health services reduce unwanted pregnancies and HIV/STIs...
