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  Good Women Bad Women: Addressing Violence in Women's Lives by Examining Social Constructs of Gender and Sexuality within CARE

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Can we empower women and protect them simultaneously? Gender-equity and sexual health programmes often focus on women's vulnerability and need for protection. But this is only part of the equation - another aspect of women's sexuality concerns their sexual pleasure.
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  The Club for Women's Advancement

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Sexuality remains a sensitive issue in Vietnamese society. Between 2000 and 2003, Viet Nam Family Planning Association (VINAFPA) - a local non-governmental organisation (NGO)- implemented a project to address the issues of reproductive health rights, gender equality and domestic violence in Vietnam. Four pilot ?Clubs for Women's Advancement? were set up.
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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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  Gender Impacts of Trade Policies in Latin America: Progress and Challenges for Research and Action

  2003

  What has been the impact of civil society on the formulation and implementation of trade agreements in the Americas? This paper offers an overview of gender and trade research - including on employment, gender segregation in the labour market, salary gaps, and the impact of trade on productive and reproductive spheres.
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  Sex Lives in the Aids Era

  2004

  This book proposes that to prevent AIDS, instead of always just talking about risk, safer more enjoyable sex lives should be promoted. This book argues that the sex workers are not transmitters of HIV/AIDS but are the first line of victims. The real infectors are the men who go whoring and have other sexual partners. Among these the most dangerous infectors are the men who do not use condoms.
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  Men Who Have Sex with Men and HIV in Vietnam: A Review

  Guilford Publications, New York, 2004

  Men who have sex with men (MSM) in Vietnam's urban centres are increasing in numbers and visibility. Although limited to a few surveys, the available data on MSM in Vietnam show that they are at increased risk of HIV infection due to high numbers of sexual partners, high rates of unsafe sex, and inconsistent condom use.
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  Women and HIV/AIDS: Select Facts

  2004

  Women are increasingly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Nearly 50 percent of the 38 million people living with HIV/AIDS are female, up from 41 percent in 1997. Young women are disproportionately at risk. In the United States girls account for 57 percent of new HIV infections among teenagers.
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  A Russian Perspective

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2001

  Gender equality is an important element in the successful transition to a market economy and democratic development. Unfortunately, in the economic and political transition in Russia women have paid a higher price than men.
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  Integrating a Gender Perspective into the Delivery of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services

  2004

  The Programa de Coordinaci¢n en Salud Integral (PROCOSI), a network of NGOs working for health and development in Bolivia, launched a Gender Programme in 2000 with funding from the USAID Mission in Bolivia. The aim was to integrate a gender perspective into NGOs delivering reproductive and sexual health services.
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  Social and Cultural Factors which Facilitate the Transmission of HIV in Bolivia

  BRIDGE, 2002

  If we are going to attack the causes and not just the effects of HIV/AIDS we need to look at the cultural and social aspects, as well as the medical. Cultural values and social norms which facilitate transmission in Bolivia include taboos around talking about sexuality, which is reinforced by religious associations of sex with sin and of women as virginal.

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