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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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    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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    Sara, a role model for girls as they face HIV and AIDS in Africa: a review of the sara communication initiative for its introduction to Ghana

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2002
    The Sara Communication Initiative (SCI) is a complementary regional project designed to support and reinforce on-going and future program activities supported by UNICEF, its partners and any organisation with similar goals.
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    Stop violence against women: it's in our hands

    Amnesty International, 2004
    This paper explores the definition and perpetration of violence against women around the world. The authors explore how the underlying cause of violence against women lies in discrimination which denies women equality with men in all areas of life. Violence is both rooted in discrimination and serves to reinforce discrimination.
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    Expanding contraceptive choice: an Africa study of emergency contraception

    Reproductive Health Research Unit, 2003
    This study explores the need for and use of emergency contraception in South Africa. It was undertaken in response to the lack of information on the availability, provision and use of emergency contraception in South Africa.
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    A decade after Cairo: women's health in a free market economy

    The Corner House, UK, 2004
    This briefing first summarises the actions of several women’s groups to influence the outcome of the 1994 UN International Conference on Population and Development and evaluates with hindsight some of the successes and failures of the Programme of Action. The authors examine the history of the concept of "reproductive rights," and different general priorities for what this means by region.
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    Challenges in the social sector: confronting Caribbean SIDS

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2004
    This paper identifies those areas which ECLAC believes lead to the most pressing social problems in the Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
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    The burden of co-infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and malaria in pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa

    American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2004
    This American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene report reviews information collected over the last 15 years which explores the connections between HIV and malaria in pregnant women. The article examines the effect of maternal HIV on malaria during pregnancy, as well as the effect of maternal malaria on HIV.
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    AIDS Epidemic Update 2004

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2004
    This joint UNAIDS/WHO report outlines the most recent trends in the global AIDS epidemic. Women are increasingly affected by HIV and make up nearly half of the 37.2 million living with HIV world wide. In sub-Saharan Africa, almost 60 percent of adults living with HIV are women. The report identifies Southern Africa as the worst-hit region with HIV prevalence rates surpassing 25 percent.
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    Vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS infection and disease: Part II: determinants operating at environmental and institutional level

    The Lancet, 2004
    This review, produced by The Lancet, looks at the various factors that influence vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS infection at environmental and institutional level. It identifies strategies to improve resilience to all three diseases simultaneously, stressing the importance of a cross-sectoral approach.

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