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    The Effect of Armed Conflict on the Marriage Market for Women: Results from Tajikistan

    Poverty Frontiers, 2006
    What are the links between violent conflict, marriage markets and female reproductive behaviour? This short paper explores the impact of civil wars on household and individual behaviour, using the 1992 to 1998 conflict in Tajikistan as a case study.
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    HIV, AIDS and Islam: a workshop manual based on compassion, responsibility and justice

    Communities Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, 2007
    This manual for running workshops on the theme of Islam, HIV, and AIDS is intended for those whose primary purpose is to raise awareness among Muslims about the prevalence of HIV and AIDS in their communities.
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    Over their dead bodies: denial of access to emergency obstetric care and therapeutic abortion in Nicaragua

    Human Rights Watch, 2007
    Nicaragua is one of only three countries in the world to maintain a blanket ban on abortion, even in cases of rape, incest, or life- or health-threatening pregnancies. Such blanket abortion bans are incompatible with international human rights obligations, including obligations on the rights to life and health.
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    Sexual and reproductive health services and HIV testing: perspectives and experiences of women and men living with HIV and AIDS

    2007
    All over the world HIV has been stigmatised, making it difficult for people living with HIV to access testing, treatment, care and counseling or even to act on a diagnosis or get advice and treatment, for fear of being judged. Prejudice in society has also often been reflected and reproduced by health care providers.
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    Gender and Economic Empowerment in Africa, 8th Meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum, Berlin, Germany, 22-23 May 2007

    Africa Partnership Forum, 2007
    There are multiple obstacles to the economic empowerment of women in Africa. For example, limited access to productive resources such as land, seed and fertiliser means that women may be unable to benefit from the expansion of trade in agricultural products.
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    Transcending boundaries to improve the food security of HIV-affected households in rural Uganda: a case study

    Population Council, USA, 2007
    Realising food security for all is a complex task that requires attention to agricultural, nutritional, technological, and gender issues. This case study describes the experience of Partners for Food Security (PAFOSE) in Tororo, Uganda, a multi-organisation partnership aimed at better integrating district level organisations to identify and promote ways to improve food security.
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    All in Diary

    2007
    The 'All In Diary' is a practical tool for field-based humanitarian workers. It aims to improve the quality and appropriateness of relief work through: increasing awareness of good humanitarian practice; providing easy and timely access to relevant information and resources; and facilitating organisational learning and programme continuity.
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    UNIFEM Afganistan Fact Sheet 2007

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2007
    What is women's situation in Afghanistan in 2007? This factsheet presents key statistics in a number of key areas, including political participation, labour force participation, health, education, marriage and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world, and a low female life expectancy of just 44 years.
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    Gender, Health and Ageing

    World Health Organization, 2003
    The diseases which afflict older men and women are the same - but rates, trends, and types of these differ between women and men. Conditions that account for the majority of mortality and morbidity among older people stem from experiences and behaviours at younger ages, such as smoking, alcohol abuse, infectious disease, dangerous work conditions, violence and poor health care.
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    Grandmothers Promote Maternal and Child Health: the Role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems' Managers

    Knowledge and Learning Centre, Africa Region, WB, 2006
    In most known societies senior women or grandmothers are the managers of indigenous knowledge (IK) systems that deal with the development, care and well-being of women and children. Grandmothers are expected to advise and supervise the younger generations.

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