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  Boys and changing gender roles: emerging programme approaches hold promise in changing gender norms and behaviours among boys and young men

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2005

  A growing number of sexual and reproductive health projects are recognising the importance of working with boys and young men. A World Health Organisation (WHO) review found 77 efforts to reach young men with health information and services in schools, communities, workplaces, military facilities and juvenile justice centres. This report describes some of these programmes. For example:
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  Addressing the sexual cultures of heterosexual men: key strategies in involving men and boys in HIV/AIDS prevention

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2003

  What stops heterosexual Australian men from using condoms? How might sex education campaigns encourage them to do so? This paper identifies the main reasons for non-condom use among heterosexual men in Australia and describes potential strategies for promoting safer sex, such as:? Using sportsmen or celebrities as positive male role models in education campaigns;
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  Male sexuality in the context of socio-economic change in rural and urban East Africa

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  HIV/AIDS prevention efforts have missed the point by concentrating on women's empowerment and women's ability to negotiate safer sex. HIV/AIDS work must also consider to what extent disempowered men in East Africa are motivated to practice safer sex.
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  Where Angels Fear to Tread? Some Thoughts on Patricia McFadden's "Sexual Pleasure as Feminist Choice"

  African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2003

  This paper is written in response to Patricia Mcfadden's ?Sexual Pleasure as Feminist Choice?. It argues that Mcfadden's assumption that African women are universally sexually repressed overlooks the diversity of African women's sexualities.
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  Sexual Pleasure as Feminist Choice

  African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2003

  This paper condemns the many silences in the debates around African women's sexualities. It argues that African women are often fearful of considering the possibilities for sexual pleasure because of patriarchal concepts of women's sexuality as something ?bad? or "filthy?. This has led to the suppression of feminist energies and political action.
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  Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues in Development: a Study of Swedish Policy and Administration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in International Development Cooperation

  2005

  Homosexual and transgender persons are often excluded from international sexual and reproductive health work. This report is based on a study of Swedish policy and administration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) issues in international development cooperation. It is the first report of its kind to be conducted by a governmental donor organisation.
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  Spotlights on rights: reproductive rights and community action in Colombia: an exercise in social accountability

  International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2004

  This briefing describes a community-based sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) initiative carried out by the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) in Columbia, India and Malaysia. Concrete illustrations are given of project activities. For example, in Monteria, Columbia, a youth leaflet and video was produced to raise awareness of people's rights.
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  Terms of Contact and Touching Change: Investigating Pleasure in an HIV Epidemic

  BRIDGE, 2005

  There is a real problem in the way that Western-led discussions of sexual health have fore-grounded warnings of 'what not to do'. If pleasure is one key reason why people have sex, sexual health work must open up discussion of how pleasure can be experienced with less risk. However there are challenges in addressing pleasure in safer sex work.
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  Eroticism, Sensuality and ?Women's Secrets? among the Baganda: A Critical Analysis

  Continental Feminist Studies Network, 2005

  African women are often seen as victims of sexual oppression, a portrayal which is both inaccurate and disempowering. This paper contests this simplistic assumption through an analysis of the institution of Ssenga among the Baganda people of Uganda. Ssenga is a form of sexual initiation, in which traditionally the paternal Aunt tutors young girls in a range of sexual matters.
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  Reflections on the Rights Language and Queer Sexuality

  BRIDGE, 2005

  The language of rights has given much to the queer movement. Yet there are also limitations to the usefulness of rights-based language which arise from the narrow way in which it is often used. This paper draws on the experiences of PRISM, an activist forum based in India which works on queer issues.

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