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    The missing link! Parliamentary hearings linking sexual & reproductive health and HIV/AIDS

    All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health, UK, 2004
    This document, from the all-party parliamentary group on population, development and reproductive health, provides a number of recommendations on strengthening the links between sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV and AIDS.
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    Ensuring equitable access to antiretroviral therapy: WHO/UNAIDS policy statement

    World Health Organization, 2004
    This joint policy brief from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS identifies key actions needed to address the gender dimensions of equity in access to antiretroviral therapy (ART). Gender-based inequalities put women and girls at increased risk of HIV infection.
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    Reproductive health and rights: HIV/AIDS and gender equality

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2004
    This paper is part of an ongoing study that explores the role of gender in the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean.
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    Reproductive health services and intimate partner violence

    Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2004
    Published by Alan Guttmacher Institute, this article highlights findings from a number of small-scale, community-based studies which indicate that intimate partner violence is an important factor affecting women’s reproductive health. The authors note that in many countries, violence is perceived as a legal or human rights issue rather than a health issue.
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    Poverty and labour market markers of HIV+ households: an exploratory methodological analysis

    Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004
    This study provides a tentative analysis of the relationship between HIV, poverty and labour markets. The author illustrates that the relationship between poverty, labour markets and HIV is not homogenous but multi-dimensional in character.
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    Mainstreaming gender into HIV/AIDS action: priorities for interventions focusing on women and girls

    GDNet document store, 2004
    In the formulation of Kenya’s National HIV/AIDS Strategic Plan (KNASP) of 2000-05, it was recognised that the impact of the epidemic on women was strikingly different from that on men: the incidence of HIV/AIDS amongst women was rising more quickly, and women were being infected at an earlier age than men were.This paper draws on the findings of two national field studies and on a best practice
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    World Youth Report 2005

    United Nations [UN] Programme on Youth, 2005
    This report presents an overview of the global situation of young people.The report highlights the following issues: the impact of globalisation on young women and men; the use of and access to ICTs; the impact of HIV/AIDS on young people; the active involvement of young people in armed conflict, both as victims and as perpetrators; and the increased importance of addressing intergenerational
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    Men’s surveys: new findings

    Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2004
    Since 1990, 46 countries, most in sub-Saharan Africa, have taken nationally representative surveys of men’s family planning attitudes and behaviour. This paper looks at the various results of this study.Findings include:in nearly all surveyed countries, most men know and approve of contraception.
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    Investing in people: national progress in implementing the ICPD programme of action 1994-2004

    United Nations Population Fund, 2004
    This report from UNFPA presents results from a global survey of national experiences ten years after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action was agreed in Cairo.
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    Sexual violence in conflict settings and the risk of HIV

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2004
    This brief, from the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, explores the nature of sexual violence in conflict settings and the risk of HIV. It outlines why it is important to focus on violence against women (VAW) in conflict settings and HIV. It then explores where and how VAW and HIV/AIDS intersect in these settings. The third section looks at how VAW in conflict settings can be addressed.

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