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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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  Understanding power and creating spaces: sex workers’ voices in HIV prevention

  CARE International, 2004

  This paper, from the SAKSHAM project of CARE India, explores different dimensions of power in the sex work industry and considers these issues in relation to HIV prevention with sex workers.
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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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