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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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  Toolkit for mainstreaming gender, environment, poverty reduction, peace and unity and participatory governance

  Philippines-Canada Local Government Support Program, 2003

  This toolkit is designed as a guide to help local government support programmes (LGSP) and their local resource partners representatives to integrate LGSP's four cross-cutting themes into LGSP projects and to build the capacity of local government units (LGUs) to mainstream the cross-cutting themes into their policies, plans and programs.
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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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  HIV/AIDS resource guide for extension workers

  Integrated Support to Sustainable Development and Food Security Programme, 2004

  This resource guide is aimed at building the capacity of extension workers and services working with communities affected by HIV/AIDS.
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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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  Vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS infection and disease: Part 1: determinants operating at individual and household level

  The Lancet, 2004

  This review assesses the various factors that affect vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS infection and disease at the individual and household levels. Produced by The Lancet, it examines in particular the influence that age, sex, and genetics have on the biological response to the three diseases and looks at what effect the three illnesses have on each other.
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  A five-year review of progress towards the implementation of the programme of action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)

  United Nations Population Fund, 1998

  This report constitutes a five-year review of the 20-year Programme of Action agreed at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994. It was prepared by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to be used as a background document at the Hague Forum, examining the progress made towards the goals set out in the original plan.
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  Population, reproductive health and the Millennium Development Goals: how the ICPD Programme of Action promotes poverty alleviation and human rights

  United Nations Population Fund, 2003

  In the year 2000, a set of goals to improve the lives of the poorest people in the world (afterwards called the Millennium Development Goals or MDGs) were adopted at the historic Millennium Summit at the United Nations.

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