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  Gender, Poverty, and Intergenerational Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS

  Oxfam, 2002

  Older women and young girls in developing countries are likely to be affected by HIV/AIDS, but tend to fall outside the boundaries of mainstream development research and practice on HIV/AIDS. This article explores the reasons for the lack of attention given to these groups and identifies what steps are needed to ensure their needs are also met.
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  Gender and Ageing Briefs

  HelpAge International, 2002

  Aimed at practitioners and policy makers, these briefs cover six key issues in ageing, gender and development:?gender in an ageing world;?age, gender and HIV/AIDS;?participation for older men and women;?humanitarian crises: hearing and understanding older people's gender needs;?violence and older people: the gendered dimension; and
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  Men, Ageing and Health: Achieving Health Across the Life Span

  2000

  Gender norms and expectations affect men's health throughout their life course, including in old age. For example, men often avoid seeking care due to the belief in many cultures that health-seeking behaviour is a sign of weakness. Older men may be particularly vulnerable since they may be less tied into social networks than women.
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  Caring and Contributing: the Role of Older Women in Multigenerational Households in the HIV/AIDS Era

  Oxford Institute of Ageing, 2007

  Older women are much more likely to be affected by, rather than infected with, HIV and AIDS. They are often the primary caretakers of the sick, of the children of the sick, and of children who have been orphaned due to AIDS. They may also help pay for medical treatments, transportation and school fees for children and grandchildren, as well as household subsistence needs.
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  Gender and Poverty: Determinants of Health in Ageing

  2007

  Women represent the majority of the ageing population in almost every country in the world. In Mexico, the issues elderly people confront are related to poverty, gender and ageing.
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  Unequal, unfair, ineffective and inefficient. Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it.

  Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network, 2007

  Gender differentials in health related risks and outcomes are partly determined by biological sex differences. Yet they are also the result of how societies socialise women and men into gender roles. For example, in many societies, practices around sexuality sometimes include ritual (and painful) 'deflowering' of brides and sanctioned marital rape.
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  Breaking the Silence: the Global Gag Rule's Impact on Unsafe Abortion

  Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2003

  To what extent is the Bush Administration's gag rule contributing to the global crisis of unsafe abortion? The global gag rule (also known as the Mexico City Policy) is an executive order, issued by President Bush in 2001, which restricts foreign Non Government Organisations (NGOs) who receive USAID family planning assistance from using their own, non-U.S.
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  Advocating for Abortion Access: Eleven Country Studies

  Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2001

  What factors influence a country's legal position on abortion? This publication is
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  Increasing Access to Reproductive Health Services through Social Business. The Role of Marie Stopes South Africa in Delivering Termination of Pregnancy Services

  2002

  In 1996 legislation was passed in South Africa that derestricted access to termination of pregnancy (TOP) services, creating huge demand which the public sector was unable to meet. This paper examines the effectiveness of Marie Stopes South Africa's (MSSA) provision of TOP services in order to assess the contribution the not-for-profit social business made in this context.
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  Safe Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems

  2003

  What actions should health professionals and others both inside and outside of government take to ensure the provision of safe, good-quality abortion services as allowed by law?

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