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  "You Don't Belong Here": Fear, Blame and Shame Around HIV & AIDS, Report from the VSO-RAISA Regional Conference, Pretoria, South Africa, October 2005

  Voluntary Services Overseas, 2005

  In October 2005, delegates from 10 countries gathered in Pretoria, South Africa, for a three-day VSO-RAISA regional conference on tackling the stigma and discrimination experienced by people living with HIV and AIDS. That men and women experience stigma differently was widely documented by the conference participants.
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  HIV Positive Young Women, ICW Vision Paper 1

  2004

  A group of young HIV positive women from Eastern and Southern Africa met in 2004 to develop a common advocacy agenda. One of their major concerns was that young women living with HIV and AIDS are unable to access their sexual and reproductive rights, such as the right to have children, the right to safe abortion, and the right not to be forced into termination of pregnancy or sterilisation.
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  Sweden's International Policy on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

  Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006

  This new policy provides the basis of the Swedish government's position on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and of the bilateral, multilateral and operational work that Sweden carries out in this area in international contexts. Sweden will focus on central issues that hamper results in SHRH work, such as poverty and lack of information and knowledge.
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  Improving Access to Safe Abortion: Guidance on Making High Quality Services Available

  IPAS, 2005

  This CD-ROM aims to enhance public discussion of the issues around unsafe abortion and encourage the provision of safe abortion services to the extent allowed by national law. The package includes advocacy tools in English, Spanish, and Portuguese which can be used with a range of audiences - policy-makers, health care providers, the media, and individuals.
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  Public Choices, Private Decisions: Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals

  United Nations Development Programme, 2006

  Apart from being important in and of itself, ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is instrumentally important for achieving many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This report brings out the linkages between the Programme of Action from the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the MDGs.
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  Position statement: injecting drug users and access to HIV treatment

  International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, 2005

  In 2005, there were an estimated 13.2 million injecting drug users worldwide, 80% of whom live in developing and transitional countries.
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  Complying with the Law? How Catholic Hospitals Respond to State Laws Mandating the Provision of Emergency Contraception to Sexual Assaults Victims

  2006

  In the United States five percent of women who have been sexually assaulted become pregnant as a result of the attack, the majority of which undergo elective abortion. This report argues that women who have experienced sexual assault should have easy access to emergency contraception (EC).
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  Addressing Gender Violence in a Reproductive and Sexual Health Program in Venezuela

  Population Council, 2002

  Gender-based violence (GBV) is widespread in Venezuela. Although an average of 12 women report rape daily - the majority of offences remain unreported.
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  Official Guidelines for the Implementation of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Plan

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  This document includes concepts, rules and proceedings for the implementation of the sexual and reproductive health policy in Venezuela. It aims to ensure that sexual and reproductive rights are acknowledged, respected and exercised by everybody and was formulated with a gender perspective.
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  Advancing Reproductive Health as a Human Right: Progress toward Safe Abortion Care in Selected Asian Countries since ICPD

  IPAS, 2004

  Nearly 70,000 women die every year as a result of unsafe abortions, 50 percent of these in Asia. The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), 1994, addressed abortion related maternal death as an international public health concern. Outcomes of the ICPD included agreement that post abortion care (PAC) should be available where abortion was legal.

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