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  HIV among fishers: vulnerability of their partners

  The WorldFish Center, 2002

  This paper examines the impacts of HIV/AIDS on fishing populations and their partners. It begins by outlining the global impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and looking at the specific characteristics of fishing populations that may make them vulnerable to risk generally and to HIV specifically.
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  Dangerous game of love? Challenging male machismo

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Love, in South Africa, can be a dangerous game for girls. Boys use violence in sexual relationships to assert their masculinity. The reliance by some boys, however, on excessive control of girlfriends belies their own vulnerability. How can the ‘normality’ of sexual violence be challenged?
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  South Asia HIV/AIDS conference

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2003

  This resource presents a series of background papers from the South Asia HIV/AIDS conference, held in Kathmandu in February 2003.The objective of the Conference was to arrive at a South Asia consensus on how to bring about greater accountability for the prevention of a large-scale epidemic in South Asia and how to monitor results in the fight against HIV/AIDS as a follow-up to the goals and tar
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  WABA/UNICEF Colloquium on HIV and breastfeeding

  World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, 2002

  This resource is a collection of conference presentations on breastfeeding and HIV transmission, includingthe role of breastfeeding-supportive NGOs in HIV and infant feedingHIV and infant feeding: a framework for priority actionsexperiences with early cessation of breast feeding among HIV infected women in Kampala, UgandaPMTCT, infant feeding: the Botswana experienceHIV and
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  Reducing girls' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS: the Thai approach

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999

  This publication look specifically at the issue of the common practice in Thailand of young girls entering the sex industry. The author states that it is common, even usual in some areas, for parents to sell their daughters into sex work.
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  Turning the tide: CEDAW and the gender dimensions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002

  This document considers the relevance of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) to women as they are affected by HIV/AIDS.It covers the reasons for women's particular vulnerability to HIV infection and as main care givers.
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  Gender-based violence and reproductive health & HIV/AIDS

  Population Reference Bureau, 2002

  This paper provides a summary of a day long technical update on gender-based violence (GBV) and reproductive health (RH) /HIV (HIV). The objective of the meeting was to: 1) launch a process for considering GBV in relation to RH and HIV in USAID'S population, health, and nutrition portfolio; and 2) explore ways of integrating GBV into RH/HIV programs.
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  Mobilization for microbicides: the decisive decade

  Rockefeller Foundation, 2002

  Highlights the need for microbicides to help millions of women around the world prevent HIV infection and death from AIDS.The research model found that the introduction of microbicides could avert 2.5 million HIV infections and save US$2.7 billion on HIV/AIDS treatment.In conclusion, to make microbicides available for use will require lengthy and expensive research to prove their effectivene
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  Youth and HIV/AIDS: can we avoid catastrophe?

  Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2001

  To stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic from becoming a catastrophe, prevention strategies must do much more to reach young people right away. Of the over 60 million people who have been infected with HIV in the past 20 years, about half became infected between the ages of 15 and 24. Today, nearly 12 million young people are living with HIV/AIDS.
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  With an end in sight: strategies from the UNIFEM trust fund to eliminate violence against women

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000

  This UNIFEM report explores the power of collective action in ending violence against women, using case studies from seven countries. Chapter one looks at projects in Kenya, Nigeria and Honduras that established support networks and community-based mechanisms to change behavioural and cultural patterns.

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