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  Transforming the national AIDS response: mainstreaming gender equality and women’s human rights into the “Three Ones”.

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006

  This is an executive summary of a resource guide due to be published in 2007. The resource guide highlights strategies to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS that ensure that gender equality is promoted and protected as a key element.
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  Zero tolerance: stop the violence against women and children, stop HIV/AIDS

  Global AIDS Alliance, 2006

  This document describes a framework for a comprehensive response to violence against women and children, including the resources that would be needed, political and financial, for full implementation.
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  India’s population reality: Reconciling change and tradition

  Population Reference Bureau, 2006

  India’s population will exceed that of China before 2030 to become the world’s most populous country.
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  Improving health and creating livelihoods options for indigenous girls in Guatemala

  Global Forum for Health Research, 2004

  In a country that is poorer and less educated than most others in Latin America, Mayan girls and women in Guatemala are among the most disadvantaged, often subject to social isolation, chronic poverty and poor health.
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  What is good for women is good for all

  Water and Environmental Health at London and Loughborough, 2006

  This briefing provides evidence to demonstrate how women's empowerment and the improvement of water supply, sanitation facilities and hygiene practice are linked.It highlights some of the benefits of placing women and their concerns at the centre of decision-making about such interventions:improved levels of service and better health outcomes when women are involved in planning and mana
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  Family planning for married adolescent girls

  US Agency for International Development, 2006

  This two-page technical brief emphasises that young married women are the most vulnerable sub-group of the sexually active population because health care providers ignore their needs, despite their need for adequate contraceptive options.
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  China: the intersections between poverty, health inequity, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS

  Gender and Health Equity Network, 2005

  This article, featured on the GHEN (Gender, Health and Equity Network) website, outlines how the intersections between poverty, health inequity and reproductive health, including HIV, affect rural women in China. The author argues that chronic and long term underinvestment in the health sector has created a public health crisis in China today.
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  The female condom: a powerful tool for protection

  United Nations Population Fund, 2006

  This report emphasises the potential of the female condom as a strategy for women to gain control over their lives and their bodies, by preventing unwanted pregnancies and lowering their susceptibility to the HIV infection.
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  Family planning vis-à-vis gender relations and its impact on peace building’

  Eldis Document Store, 2006

  This paper explores Cameroon's family planning policy and questions whether the policy affects gender relations vis-à-vis peace building; the case of Njindom married men.
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  Women lead in the fight against AIDS

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2006

  This publication, from the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), provides powerful stories of a range of women who are actively engaged in the response to HIV and AIDS. Each woman’s story describes her experiences and the AIDS situation in her respective country. Country experiences include Zimbabwe, Uganda, Ukraine, Kenya, Swaziland, Bangladesh, Nepal, USA and Pakistan.

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