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    Violence and exposure to HIV among sex workers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

    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. However, the evidence in this report from USAID reveals that the national HIV/AIDS program has failed to protect the rights of sex workers as women and as citizens.
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    HIV in Pakistan: preventing a future epidemic in most-at-risk groups

    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2009
    Very low levels of HIV and AIDS awareness and condom use, together with high-risk sexual behaviours in vulnerable groups such as injecting drug-users and sex workers, make Pakistan a potentially high-risk country for HIV spread. Current HIV prevalence is generally low but STI levels are high in some at-risk groups.
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    Sexuality, development and human rights

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006
    This paper from the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Expert Group on Development Issues calls for a new approach to sexuality and development. It argues that development policy has mainly concentrated on reproductive issues, or on the negative aspects of sexuality such as HIV infection and sexual violence.
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    Off the map: how HIV/AIDS programming is failing same-sex practising people in Africa

    International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2007
    This report from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) explores the ways in which governments, international donors and NGOs (non-governmental organisations) are denying basic human rights protection to same-sex practicing Africans.
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    MAP report 2005: male to male sex and HIV/AIDS in Asia

    Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic Network, 2005
    This publication, from the Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic (MAP) Network, reviews the situation of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Asia. The report summarises the key findings about the epidemiology of HIV and AIDS among Asian MSM and discusses the programmatic implications of these findings. Key findings show that in 2003, 17 per cent of MSM in Bangkok, Thailand were HIV positive.
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    The less they know, the better: abstinence-only HIV/AIDS programs in Uganda

    Human Rights Watch, 2005
    This Human Rights Watch report finds that United States (U.S.) funded organisations are scaling up programmes in Uganda that promote sexual abstinence and fidelity within heterosexual marriage to the exclusion of all other HIV prevention strategies. These programmes, the report argues, deprive young people of life-saving information.
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    Out of the shadows: male to male sexual behaviour in Cambodia

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2003
    This paper explores the concerns, sexual health issues and risks faced by men who have sex with men (MSM) in Cambodia. It reports the findings of a rapid appraisal of male-to-male sexual behaviour undertaken in September 2002 in three cities of Cambodia.

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