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  Ensuring equitable access to antiretroviral therapy: WHO/UNAIDS policy statement

  World Health Organization, 2004

  This joint policy brief from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS identifies key actions needed to address the gender dimensions of equity in access to antiretroviral therapy (ART). Gender-based inequalities put women and girls at increased risk of HIV infection.
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  Reproductive health and rights: HIV/AIDS and gender equality

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2004

  This paper is part of an ongoing study that explores the role of gender in the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean.
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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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  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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  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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  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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