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  Exploring HIV risk among MSM in Kigali, Rwanda

  Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, 2009

  Internationally men who have sex with men (MSM) have been identified as a high risk group for HIV acquisition, due to a tendency towards higher risk sexual behaviours and greater numbers of casual (and often commercial) sexual partners.
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  Preventing HIV/AIDS in young people: a systematic review of the evidence from developing countries

  World Health Organization, 2006

  There is now wide consensus about the main settings through which young people can be reached with HIV/AIDS preventive interventions. These include schools, health services, mass media and through community and outreach programmes targeting the young people who are most at risk of HIV.
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  Literature review on men, gender, health and HIV and AIDS in South Africa

  US Agency for International Development, 2008

  Although attitudes are changing, many South Africans of both sexes see men as superior to women and believe that men should dictate many decisions that affect health, including sexual decisions. A growing body of evidence also suggests that men are far less likely than women to access HIV services including testing, treatment and other care and support services.
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  AIDS in Brazil: a portrait in red

  The Economist, 2008

  This article from the Economist describes how the Brazilian government has sought to control the HIV epidemic spreading across the country. The report details how over the past 20 years the epidemic has expanded from vulnerable groups such as gay men into the general population. There are three main strands to the government’s response:
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  Civil society perspectives on HIV/AIDS policy in Nicaragua, Senegal, Ukraine, the United States, and Vietnam

  Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2007

  This report from the Open Society Institute examines groups that are excluded or marginalised from the design, implementation, and evaluation of national HIV/AIDS policies and programmes due to stigma. These groups such as injecting drug users, sex workers, men who have sex with men, prisoners, and ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected by the epidemic.
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  I count myself as being in a different world: African gay and bisexual men living with HIV in London

  Homerton University Hospital, 2007

  This report from the Centre of Sexual Health and HIV at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust describes the challenges faced by gay and bisexual African men living with HIV in London. The report highlights that the additional stigma of being gay or bisexual and HIV positive is difficult for African men.
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  From the front line: the impact of social, legal and judicial impediments to sexual health promotion, and HIV and AIDS related care and support for males who have sex with males in Bangladesh and India

  Naz Foundation International, 2005

  This study from the Naz Foundation International (NFI) reports on the high levels of sexual violence, marginalisation and stigma experienced by males who have sex with males (MSM) in India and Bangladesh. The report finds that the primary cause of this violence is cultural gender norms rather than sexual identity, since those MSM who identify as Kothi (feminine men) are most at risk.
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  Supporting civil society organisations to reach key populations in the Latin American and Caribbean region

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2007

  This study from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance) reports that over half of World Bank-funded HIV prevention projects in Latin America and the Caribbean are failing to achieve their targets and failing to slow HIV transmission.
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  Off the map: how HIV/AIDS programming is failing same-sex practising people in Africa

  International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2007

  This report from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) explores the ways in which governments, international donors and NGOs (non-governmental organisations) are denying basic human rights protection to same-sex practicing Africans.
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  International Rectal Microbicide Working Group (IRMWG)

  Convened by the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, the Canadian AIDS Society, the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project and the Global Campaign for Microbicides in the spring of 2005, the International Rec

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