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Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)
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A health handbook for women with disabilities
Hesperian Foundation, 2007Women with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to poverty, exploitation, abuse, and social marginalisation. This handbook is aimed at helping women with disabilities better care for themselves, improve their general health, their capabilities and self-reliance, and their ability to participate more effectively in their communities.DocumentPreventing and responding to gender-based violence in middle and low-income countries: a global review and analysis
World Bank, 2005Worldwide, patterns of violence against women differ markedly from violence against men. This World Bank paper reviews what is known about more and less effective approaches to prevent and respond to gender-based violence. The authors present definitions, recent statistics, health consequences, costs, and risk factors of gender-based violence.DocumentMaking the links: addressing HIV/AIDS and gender equality in food security and rural livelihoods programming
Canadian International Development Agency, 2005This toolkit from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) provides guidelines for integrating HIV and gender equality into the development and implementation of agricultural and food security programmes. The guidelines highlight the ways in which food security, gender, poverty and HIV intersect.DocumentSex and the rights of man
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006This paper explores the subject of sexual rights and the claims about such rights as they are made by and for men. It asks: what can men's interest be in the social and sexual revolution being proposed by advocates of sexual rights? The first answer to this question is to recognise that some men's sexual rights have long been violated.DocumentEffect of a structural intervention for the prevention of intimate partner violence and HIV in rural South Africa: results of a cluster randomized trial
The Lancet, 2006This article from the Lancet provides evidence that microfinance initiatives combined with gender and HIV training can reduce levels of intimate partner violence. This in turn can potentially reduce levels of risk in relation to HIV.DocumentGlobal AIDS Link
Global AIDS Alliance, 2007This issue of Global AIDS Link from the Global AIDS Council examines the impact which HIV and AIDS are having on young girls. It examines the factors, such as poverty, gender norms and cultural practices, which are making girls particularly vulnerable to HIV.DocumentThe livelihoods of commercial sex workers in Binga
Save the Children Fund, 2002This report, from Save the Children (SC), explores the links between commercial sex work and food security in a fishing community in northern Zimbabwe. The authors found that one of the coping strategies for women during periods when they had little or no income or food would be to engage in commercial sex work (CSW).DocumentBRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack: gender and sexuality
BRIDGE, 2007Have development interventions promoted only negative messages in relation to sexuality, ignoring poor people's rights to pleasure, affirmation and joy through sex and sexuality?