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  Stockholm Call to Action: Investing in Reproductive Health and Rights as a Development Priority

  United Nations Population Fund, 2005

  The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Government of Sweden convened the high-level roundtable, ?Reducing Poverty and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Investing in Reproductive Health and Rights? on 11 and 12 April 2005 in Stockholm.
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  Public Choices, Private Decisions: Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals

  United Nations Development Programme, 2006

  Apart from being important in and of itself, ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is instrumentally important for achieving many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This report brings out the linkages between the Programme of Action from the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the MDGs.
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  Boom-time Blues: Big Oil's Gender Impacts in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Sakhalin

  Gender Action, 2006

  Why is it that extractive industries often bring massive short-term benefits to 'boom towns' but harm weaker social groups, including women, in the process?
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  HIV/AIDS as a Human Security Issue: a Gender Perspective

  2000

  The United Nations Security Council recently adopted resolution 1308 which specifically links the spread of AIDS to the maintenance of global peace and security. AIDS is a human security issue because it destabilises society by threatening socioeconomic development, and even threatens human survival in areas such as Botswana where 35% of the adult population is HIV positive.
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  Men as Partners: Promoting Men's Involvement in Care and Support Activities for People Living with HIV/AIDS

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  In South Africa, as in many parts of the world, men often act in ways that leave women and girls disproportionately shouldering the burden of providing care and support to people living with HIV/AIDS. Despite this, little has been done to date to develop interventions that explicitly encourage men to play a more active role in caring for their partners and children.
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  Women lead in the fight against AIDS

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2006

  Research tells us that women and girls are becoming increasingly infected by HIV/AIDS in countries around the world. But facts and figures don't tell the whole story. This addition of WomenLead presents the personal testimonies of 12 women who are on the frontlines in the fight against AIDS.
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  Security and Gender-Based Violence - What is the Significance for Development Interventions?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  What is the relationship between gender and security? Security means more than 'national security' and can include personal safety and freedom from violence at any time or in any context.
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  Position statement: injecting drug users and access to HIV treatment

  International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, 2005

  In 2005, there were an estimated 13.2 million injecting drug users worldwide, 80% of whom live in developing and transitional countries.
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  HIV/AIDS-stigma and violence reduction intervention manual

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2006

  This manual, developed in India, discusses how participatory learning and action (PLA) can be applied to combatting violence and stigma around HIV/AIDS. Two new tools are developed for this purpose, building on PLA: community-led action research, and transformatory workshops.
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  Risk, Morality and Blame: A Critical Analysis of Government and US Donor Responses to HIV infections Among Sex Workers in India

  Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2004

  This paper is one of a series on gender and HIV in India, which since 1995 has received 67 million US dollars for its AIDS control program. It examines the effectiveness of strategies by the Government of India, with this assistance from the US, to address the vulnerabilities of adult female sex workers.

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