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  Gender and HIV/AIDS: an Analysis of Zimbabwe's National Policies and Programs on HIV/AIDS/STIS

  BRIDGE, 2003

  In Sub-Saharan Africa, the number of women and girls infected with HIV is now greater than the number of men. Biological and physiological factors make women more susceptible to infection along with the prevailing patriarchy which results among other things in customary norms that prevent women from negotiating safe sex. Gender analysis of HIV/AIDS is therefore crucial.
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  Taking gender equality seriously: making progress, meeting new challenges

  United Nations Development Programme, 2006

  UNDP and its partners have had mixed success with gender mainstreaming. For UNDP, as for others, mainstreaming has too often meant that everyone - and thus no one in particular - has responsibility for promoting women's empowerment. Nonetheless, there are many success stories throughout the organisation where mainstreaming has yielded positive results.
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  Gender mainstreaming strategy for the China-UK HIV/AIDS prevention and care project

  Siyanda, 2003

  International experience has demonstrated that gender must be addressed if HIV/ AIDS prevention and care is to be effective. Overall, the China-UK HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Project is moving in the right direction on gender by aiming for participation and empowerment of primary stakeholders.
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  Partners for change: enlisting men in HIV/AIDS prevention

  United Nations Population Fund, 2000

  There is now growing recognition that enlisting men to prevent HIV infection is one of the surest ways to change the course of the epidemic. This report draws on the experiences of the United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) reproductive health programmes to identify the most effective ways of encouraging men to engage with HIV/AIDS prevention.
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  Men as partners: South African men respond to violence against women and HIV/AIDS

  EngenderHealth, 2002

  Men can, and often do, play a crucial role in promoting gender equity. This report by EngenderHealth discusses the shift within the field of sexual and reproductive health towards seeing men as an important part of the solution to HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence.
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  Male sexuality in the context of socio-economic change in rural and urban East Africa

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  HIV/AIDS prevention efforts have missed the point by concentrating on women's empowerment and women's ability to negotiate safer sex. HIV/AIDS work must also consider to what extent disempowered men in East Africa are motivated to practice safer sex.
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  Sexual Pleasure as Feminist Choice

  African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2003

  This paper condemns the many silences in the debates around African women's sexualities. It argues that African women are often fearful of considering the possibilities for sexual pleasure because of patriarchal concepts of women's sexuality as something ?bad? or "filthy?. This has led to the suppression of feminist energies and political action.
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  Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues in Development: a Study of Swedish Policy and Administration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in International Development Cooperation

  2005

  Homosexual and transgender persons are often excluded from international sexual and reproductive health work. This report is based on a study of Swedish policy and administration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) issues in international development cooperation. It is the first report of its kind to be conducted by a governmental donor organisation.
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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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