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Searching with a thematic focus on Social determinants of health, Health, HIV and AIDS, Gender and HIV AIDS, Women and girls

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    Tell me more! Children’s rights and sexuality in the context of HIV/AIDS in Africa

    Child Rights Information Network, 2007
    This report is an overview of the strategies children adopt for dealing with sexuality and relationships in the face of the HIV/AIDS scourge in sub-Saharan Africa. It is aimed at providing stakeholders with a coherent rights-orientated and child-oriented knowledge base to advocate for the development of a sexual and reproductive health agenda.
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    HIV/Aids: a war on women

    Open Democracy, 2008
    Numerous countries and foundations are admirably desperate to do something to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS. This article in Open Democracy argues how international HIV/AIDS policy, led by the United States, is discriminating against those it needs to help most. The author examines how public health policies and legislation are being introduced which are not actually rooted in women's experiences.
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    Sexual health and sexual rights within marriage

    Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Center, 2006
    The sexual rights and obligations within marriage are no doubt tied to the health status of partners, and the overall well being of families. The United Nations’ Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979. In 1985 Nigerian Government ratified CEDAW and thus becomes one of the countries bounded by its provisions.
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    Seychelles HIV and AIDS and gender baseline study 2008

    Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2008
    This report concerns the HIV and AIDS and Gender Baseline Study (GMBS) conducted in Seychelles, DRC and Madagascar over a two week period in October 2007. The key findings of the research may be divided into the three areas of enquiry: general media practice; gender; HIV and AIDS.
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    Heterosexuality: fuelling or fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic?

    Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Center, 2008
    This paper examines the issues relating to heterosexist notions of masculinity, femininity and sexuality within the context of the HIV and AIDS pandemic currently being experienced in South Africa.
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    Metaphors we love by: conceptualizations of sex among young people in Malawi

    Bioline, 2007
    The statistics regarding HIV/AIDS prevalence among young people in sub-Saharan Africa are well-known and often cited, with the 15 to 24 year old category of this population accounting for about half of all new infections in the region. Socio-cultural contexts have long been recognized as important domains for understanding sexual behaviour and pathways of HIV infection.
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    The World Bank’s Africa region HIV/AIDS agenda for action 2007-2011

    World Bank, 2007
    This document sets out the World Bank’s vision for tackling HIV and AIDS in Africa for the 5 years to 2011. The report recognises that there is no single pattern of HIV infection across sub-Saharan Africa, but a series of regional patterns, with some areas more acutely affected by HIV than others and even differences within countries.
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    Progress can kill: how imposed development destroys the health of tribal peoples

    Survival International, 2007
    This report from Survival International argues that international development can have a negative impact on indigenous people’s health. It explores the reasons why landless and ‘assimilated’ tribal peoples today suffer high levels of physical and mental illness.
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    IPPF HIV Prevention Report Cards

    International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2008
    Under the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA), the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), together with the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) and Young Positives are developing 23 country Report Cards with the aim to strengthen HIV Prevention strategies for girls and young women.
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    Food insufficiency is associated with high-risk sexual behavior among women in Botswana and Swaziland

    Public Library of Science Medicine, 2007
    This report published in PLOS medicine states that both food insufficiency and HIV infection are major public health problems in sub-Saharan Africa, yet the impact of food insufficiency on HIV risk behaviour has not been systematically investigated.

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