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Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY): providing social support, savings, and microcredit opportunities for young women in areas with high HIV prevalence
Population Council, USA, 2006Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY) is a multiphase initiative whose overall aim is to reduce adolescents' vulnerabilities to adverse social and reproductive health outcomes, including HIV infection, by improving their livelihoods options. The project operates in low-income and slum areas of Nairobi, Kenya, where rates of HIV infection are high and where young women are disproportionately affected.DocumentLearning about HIV/AIDS and gender stereotypes in schools in southern Africa
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005Most young people learn about sexuality and HIV and AIDS in school. Giving teenage pupils space to explore, debate and ask questions is just as important as checking that they know how HIV is transmitted and avoided. Can teachers help in the fight against AIDS and gender stereotypes?DocumentAfghanistan: findings on education, environment, gender,health, livelihood and water and sanitation
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005This paper presents findings from the 2005 Multidonor Evaluation of the emergency and reconstruction aid that had been provided to Afghanistan between 2001 to early 2005, on behalf of Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom.DocumentYoung men and the construction of masculinity in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for HIV/AIDS, conflict, and violence
World Bank Publications, 2005This report discusses the role of young men in the perpetuation of violence and the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and outlines the kind of programme interventions that can support alternative forms of masculinity.DocumentGender mainstreaming strategy for the China-UK HIV/AIDS prevention and care project
Siyanda, 2003This report analyses the extent to which the China-UK HIV/AIDS prevention and care project has effectively mainstreamed gender in its work. It argues that overall the China-UK project is moving in the right direction on gender by aiming for participation and empowerment of primary stakeholders.DocumentThe effects of conflict on the health and well-being of women and girls in Darfur: situational analysis report: conversations with the community
United Nations Children's Fund, 2005This report provides an overview of community perceptions about the risks women and girls currently face in Darfur as a result of the conflict.The study’s main objectives were to gain an increased understanding of how the conflict had affected women and girl’s health; to determine men’s perceptions on how the conflict had affected the health of women and girls , and to gain insight into the indDocumentThe implications of early marriage for HIV/AIDS policy
Population Council, USA, 2004This briefing paper is based on a background paper prepared for the WHO/UNFPA/Population Council Technical Consultation on Married Adolescents, held in Geneva, Switzerland, 9–12 December 2003.DocumentGender and health equity resource guide
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001The purpose of this resource guide, produced by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), is to give an overview of gender sensitive interventions and initiatives directly or indirectly related to health that have been tried at macro and micro levels.DocumentMen as partners: South African men respond to violence against women and HIV/AIDS
EngenderHealth, 2002This report by EngenderHealth discusses the shift within the field of sexual and reproductive health towards seeing men as an important part of the solution to HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence. It describes the Men as Partners (MAP) programme in South Africa, which developed as a collaboration between EngenderHealth and the Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa (PPASA).DocumentGood women bad women: addressing violence in women’s lives by examining social constructs of gender and sexuality within CARE
Eldis Document Store, 2005This paper describes the steps taken by CARE to promote women’s agency by addressing sexuality and pleasure in community gender programmes in Asia. For example, the CARE Cambodia Play Safe Project explores concepts of pleasure and sexuality in their youth reproductive health programmes.Pages
