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  Decide - Youth Coalition for Sexual Citizenship

  Decidir, 2007

  Abortion is illegal under many circumstances in Latin American and Caribbean countries, but despite heavy restrictions, nearly 4 million women across the region seek unsafe, clandestine abortions every year and two-thirds of them are between the ages of 15 and 30.
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  Literature on Unsafe Abortion in Africa

  Centre Population et Developpement, 2006

  This publication (available on CD-rom as well as online) contains an interactive and searchable bibliographical database of resources published between 1990 and 2005. It aims to map out what is known about induced abortion (particularly unsafe) in Africa. It is essentially based on research from thematic social science and medical databases, as well as documentation from other sources.
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  Failure to Deliver: Violations of Women's Human Rights in Kenyan Health Facilities

  Federation of Women Lawyers - Kenya, 2007

  The Kenyan government has taken many positive steps to advance women's reproductive health and rights.
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  BRIDGE Bibliography 18: Women and girls living with HIV/AIDS: overview and annotated bibliography

  BRIDGE, 2007

  HIV/AIDS is both driven by and entrenches gender inequality, leaving women more vulnerable than men to its impact. This report - consisting of an overview, annotated bibliography, and contacts section - considers the specific challenges faced by women and girls who are living with HIV and AIDS.
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  Factsheet: Access to Care, Treatment and Support

  2006

  Gender inequalities can constrain HIV positive women's access to care, treatment and support as well as their ability to use treatment, information and advice to improve the quality of their lives. This short fact-sheet identifies a range of barriers faced by HIV positive women in accessing care, treatment and support.
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  "You Don't Belong Here": Fear, Blame and Shame Around HIV & AIDS, Report from the VSO-RAISA Regional Conference, Pretoria, South Africa, October 2005

  Voluntary Services Overseas, 2005

  In October 2005, delegates from 10 countries gathered in Pretoria, South Africa, for a three-day VSO-RAISA regional conference on tackling the stigma and discrimination experienced by people living with HIV and AIDS. That men and women experience stigma differently was widely documented by the conference participants.
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  HIV Positive Young Women, ICW Vision Paper 1

  2004

  A group of young HIV positive women from Eastern and Southern Africa met in 2004 to develop a common advocacy agenda. One of their major concerns was that young women living with HIV and AIDS are unable to access their sexual and reproductive rights, such as the right to have children, the right to safe abortion, and the right not to be forced into termination of pregnancy or sterilisation.
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  Position statement: injecting drug users and access to HIV treatment

  International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, 2005

  In 2005, there were an estimated 13.2 million injecting drug users worldwide, 80% of whom live in developing and transitional countries.
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  Complying with the Law? How Catholic Hospitals Respond to State Laws Mandating the Provision of Emergency Contraception to Sexual Assaults Victims

  2006

  In the United States five percent of women who have been sexually assaulted become pregnant as a result of the attack, the majority of which undergo elective abortion. This report argues that women who have experienced sexual assault should have easy access to emergency contraception (EC).
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  Advancing Reproductive Health as a Human Right: Progress toward Safe Abortion Care in Selected Asian Countries since ICPD

  IPAS, 2004

  Nearly 70,000 women die every year as a result of unsafe abortions, 50 percent of these in Asia. The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), 1994, addressed abortion related maternal death as an international public health concern. Outcomes of the ICPD included agreement that post abortion care (PAC) should be available where abortion was legal.

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