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  Gender and Sexuality: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  Mobilising around sexuality is not new. Activists and practitioners have long been working on issues such as HIV/AIDS; sexual violence; abortion; sex work; and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. What is new is the integrated, affirmative approach to sexuality which is increasingly being adopted.
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  Sex Work Toolkit

  World Health Organization, 2004

  In many parts of the world, sex workers have been among the groups most vulnerable to and most affected by HIV since the beginning of the AIDS pandemic. This online toolkit is aimed at helping sex workers to protect themselves and their clients from infection by HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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  The Female Condom: a Guide for Planning and Programming

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000

  This guide shows how to integrate the female condom into already existing programmes and how to effectively promote the female condom and train providers to adequately educate potential users about it.
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  Pleasure and Prevention Case Study Number One

  The Pleasure Project, 2004

  Vida Positiva (Positive Living) is a training programme in Mozambique which aimed to promote safer sex among married couples by tackling one of the reasons that married men were having sex outside of their marriages: because they were bored with their sex lives at home.
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  Walking the Talk: Inner Spaces Outer Faces - a Gender and Sexuality Initiative

  CARE International, 2006

  Initiating a dialogue around sex and sexuality was identified as a priority need by CARE reproductive health programme staff working in India and Vietnam.
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  Dying to Learn: Young People HIV/Aids and the Churches

  Christian Aid, 2003

  Churches have been concerned that sexual health and HIV education may lead to promiscuity amongst young people. This report examines the evidence from rigorous academic studies. It concludes that sexual health and HIV education, including related life-skills education does not hasten sexual debut and does not increase the number of sexual partners.
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  Sexuality, Religion, Human Rights

  International Lesbian and Gay Association, 2006

  How do the different religions in Europe interact with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) movement? This newsletter of the International Lesbian and Gay Association explores new thinking on sexuality and gender by European Muslims, Catholics and Jews.
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  Terms of Contact and Touching Change: Investigating Pleasure in an HIV Epidemic

  BRIDGE, 2005

  There is a real problem in the way that Western-led discussions of sexual health have fore-grounded warnings of 'what not to do'. If pleasure is one key reason why people have sex, sexual health work must open up discussion of how pleasure can be experienced with less risk. However there are challenges in addressing pleasure in safer sex work.
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  Not So Strange Bedfellows: Sexual Rights and International Development

  Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

  Is sexuality less important than poverty? This article, based on a session facilitated by BRIDGE at the 2005 Association of Women's Rights in Development (AWID) conference, explores the connections between development and sexuality. The speakers argue that sexuality is itself a survival issue.
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  Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

  Eldis, 2006

  Development agencies have long addressed issues of sexuality and reproduction. However traditionally they have dealt with them in largely negative ways. Whether through population programmes or the use of scare tactics in HIV prevention work, sexuality has been regarded as a problem that needs to be controlled rather than as a positive force that can be part of the solution.

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