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    Implications of U.S. policy restrictions on programs aimed at commercial sex workers and victims of trafficking worldwide

    Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2005
    This policy brief from CHANGE, examines the implications of the United States (US) Global AIDS Act, which bars the use of federal funds to promote, support or advocate the legalisation or practice of prostitution. The brief outlines how these policies and restrictions have numerous adverse implications for effective HIV prevention and the promotion of human rights and public health.
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    Letting them fail: government neglect and the right to education for children affected by AIDS

    Human Rights Watch, 2005
    This report examines the issues surrounding access to education for children affected by HIV and AIDS, looking in particular at the role of government.
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    Role of traditional birth attendants in preventing perinatal transmission of HIV

    British Medical Journal, 2002
    This article, from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) explores how traditional birth attendants could be involved in preventing perinatal transmission of HIV. Rich nations have been able to keep these rates low with the use of anti-retroviral drugs, elective caesarean sections and avoidance of breastfeeding.
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    Sexuality and globalization

    Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC, 2004
    This paper, from Sexuality Research and Social Policy, explores the ways in which globalisation impacts upon sexuality and gender, focusing on HIV, sexual identity and human and sexual rights in the developing world.
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    Reproductive rights for women affected by HIV/AIDS? A project to monitor Millennium Development Goals 5 and 6

    IPAS, 2005
    This document reports on how six organisations in Argentina, Mexico and Poland, Kenya, Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland tried out a monitoring tool as a data collection method to assess steps along the path toward achieving MDGs 5 and 6.This report is a synthesis of each organisation’s own project report, describes how the monitoring tool was used and outlines the main findings presented by
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    HIV/AIDS: sex, abstinence, and behaviour change

    The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2005
    This opinion piece, published by Lancet Infectious Diseases, argues that an abstinence approach to HIV does not take into account the balance between contextual and environmental factors and individual choices in determining why and how people have sex.
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    Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV: a practical guide for providing HIV-positive women with family planning services

    American International Health Alliance, 2005
    This manual, produced by the American International Health Alliance, was developed to assist in the prevention of sexual and mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV and to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in HIV-positive women.
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    Education and HIV/AIDS: ensuring education access for orphans and vulnerable children

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2005
    This training manual aims to assist key decision makers to reflect on the difficulties faced by children orphaned by AIDS and other vulnerable children, and on the different policy options available within the education system, within the government and elsewhere in general. It is has been developed for the training of key stakeholders within the education sectors of World Bank client countries
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    AIDS discrimination in Asia

    Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, 2004
    This report by the Asia Pacific Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (APN+) documents a peer-led study on AIDS-related stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) in Asia. Findings show that over 80 per cent of respondents experienced some form of discrimination in the health sector, the community, the family and the workplace.
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    Pukaar: the journal of Naz Foundation International, April 2005

    Naz Foundation International, 2005
    This quarterly newsletter from the Naz Foundation International (NFI) provides a forum for discussion, information and advice regarding sexual health and HIV and AIDS, focusing on South Asian masculinities and sexualities.

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