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  Integrating adolescent livelihood activities within a reproductive health programme for urban slum dwellers in India

  Population Council, USA, 2005

  This paper describes a pilot livelihood activities and reproductive health intervention and its impact aimed at adolescent girls aged 14-19 living in urban slums in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. The project was initiated based on the recognition of the relative disadvantage of adolescent girls and in an effort to build the evidence base for adolescent livelihoods programmes.
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  Implications of U.S. policy restrictions on programs aimed at commercial sex workers and victims of trafficking worldwide

  Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2005

  This policy brief from CHANGE, examines the implications of the United States (US) Global AIDS Act, which bars the use of federal funds to promote, support or advocate the legalisation or practice of prostitution. The brief outlines how these policies and restrictions have numerous adverse implications for effective HIV prevention and the promotion of human rights and public health.
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  Gender equity in health

  Pan American Health Organization, 2002

  Gender inequalities interact with other inequalities such as ethnicity, age or socio-economic class. They also impede the exercise of women and men’s fundamental right to health. This paper presents the ethical and empirical foundations of incorporating the gender perspective in health policies and programs.
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  Reproductive health of women in Thailand: progress and challenges towards attainment of international development goals

  United Nations Population Fund, 2005

  This report examines Thailand’s progress in the area of women’s reproductive health in the context of major international declarations and conventions including the MDGs.
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  Meeting Millennium Development Goals 3 and 5

  British Medical Journal, 2005

  This article, taken from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Africa issue, calls for gender equality to be put on the African agenda. The authors point out that of all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), we have made the least progress towards achieving MDG 5 – to improve maternal health.
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  Challenges and experiences in extending social protection

  Conferencia Interamericana de Seguridad Social / Inter-American Conference on Social Security, Mexico, 2005

  Extending social protection to groups that are economically weak or groups that have been excluded from social protection is a topic of permanent concern for governments of almost every developing country.
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  The state of the world population 2005: the promise of equality: gender equity, reproductive health and the millennium development goals

  United Nations Population Fund, 2005

  This year’s The State of World Population Report stresses that gender equality and reproductive health are essential to the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  A better future for rural girls: manager's briefing kit

  Family Care International, 2005

  This briefing kit presents the results and recommendations of participatory research conducted with rural girls, boys, their families and local leaders in three rural communities: Soula, Burkina Faso, M’Biénina, Mali, and Méouane, Senegal, to identify the challenges that rural girls face and come up with strategies to address their many needs.
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  Sexuality and globalization

  Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC, 2004

  This paper, from Sexuality Research and Social Policy, explores the ways in which globalisation impacts upon sexuality and gender, focusing on HIV, sexual identity and human and sexual rights in the developing world.
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  Reproductive rights for women affected by HIV/AIDS? A project to monitor Millennium Development Goals 5 and 6

  IPAS, 2005

  This document reports on how six organisations in Argentina, Mexico and Poland, Kenya, Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland tried out a monitoring tool as a data collection method to assess steps along the path toward achieving MDGs 5 and 6.This report is a synthesis of each organisation’s own project report, describes how the monitoring tool was used and outlines the main findings presented by

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