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    Gender and HIV & AIDS: Overview Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
    Many approaches to combat the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS have failed to take gender differences and inequalities into account. Some have reaffirmed ideas of female passivity and male dominance in decisions on sex and reproduction. Others have responded to the different needs and constraints of women and men, but failed to challenge the gender status quo.
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    Unsafe Abortion: A Development Issue

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    Abortion is an increasingly controversial issue, provoking strong reactions both 'for' and 'against'. Language used in disputes over access to safe and legal abortion indicates the polarisation of debates: pro-choice versus pro-life; pro-abortion versus anti-choice.
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    An Exploratory Study of Complications from Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC): Improvement of the Quality of CAC Services in Nepal

    Population Health and Development Group, Nepal, 2008
    How safe are abortion care services in Nepal? How can abortion-related complications be reduced and monitored successfully? Nepal began providing comprehensive abortion care (CAC) services in 2004 after abortion became legal in 2002. Between 2004 and 2007, 176 CAC service sites - government, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and private service centres - were established in the country.
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    Combined Second and Third Periodic CEDAW Report - Nepal

    2003
    What progress has been made towards eliminating discrimination against women in Nepal since the first CEDAW Country Report was produced in 1997? This 2003 combined second and third CEDAW Country Report for Nepal outlines improvements made since the first Report, as well as continuing obstacles.
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    National Report on Violence and Health Sri Lanka

    World Health Organization, 2008
    Focusing strongly on gender, the report attempts to assess the magnitude of the problem of different aspects of violence in Sri Lanka, and its implications for health.
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    Dealing with a Positive Result: Routine HIV Testing of Pregnant Women in Vietnam

    Routledge, 2008
    How do pregnant women feel about being tested for HIV without their consent? In Hanoi, Vietnam, pregnant women who want to give birth in a state hospital are routinely tested for HIV in the absence of well-defined opt-out procedures. Often information about their HIV status is passed on from hospital staff to local health officials without patients' permission.
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    Masculinity and Civil Wars in Africa – New Approaches to Overcoming Sexual Violence in War

    Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2009
    An analysis of the different roles that men and women can play as a conflict unfolds offers new perspectives to help understand wars and restore peace in post-war societies. Sustainable peace building requires, among other things, addressing the behaviour and thinking of violent actors and preventing re-establishment of the old discordant social order.
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    Mind the gap: HIV and AIDS and older people in Africa

    HelpAge International, 2008
    At a time in their lives when many older people might expect to be cared for by their own children, a growing number, particularly women, are taking on caring roles for younger adults living with HIV, and for orphans and vulnerable children.
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    Men and care in the context of HIV and AIDS: structure, political will and greater male involvement

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2008
    What drives the enormous burden of AIDS-related care which falls on women and girls? What strategies are needed to reduce this burden? Rather than focusing only on ways to increase men's participation in shouldering a more equitable share of the burden of AIDS-related care, this insightful paper starts out with an analysis of the structural forces that affect how AIDS care is provided.
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    Influence and Accountability: Citizen Voices, Responsiveness and Accountability in Service Delivery

    One World Action, 2002
    How can citizens exercise their right to participate in meaningful ways in order to influence the delivery of basic services? How can the public sector's willingness and ability to respond be increased in accountable and sustainable ways?

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