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  Pukaar: the journal of Naz Foundation International, April 2005

  Naz Foundation International, 2005

  This quarterly newsletter from the Naz Foundation International (NFI) provides a forum for discussion, information and advice regarding sexual health and HIV and AIDS, focusing on South Asian masculinities and sexualities.
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  Condom programming for HIV prevention

  United Nations Population Fund, 2005

  This manual outlines a seven-step process to improve the effectiveness of existing condom programmes or to create a new condom programme.
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  Preventing and coping with HIV/AIDS in post conflict situations: gender-based lessons

  Linking Complex Emergency Response and Transition Initiative, 2000

  This paper, produced by CERTI, outlines the reasons and objectives of the symposium ‘Preventing and coping with HIV/AIDS in post conflict situations: gender-based lessons’, held in Pretoria, South Africa in 2001. Although there is little cross-country epidemiological data, there is evidence suggesting that conflicts increase the risk and impact of HIV and AIDS.
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  Hepatitis B and the case of the missing women

  Harvard University Library, 2005

  This paper complements Amartya Sen's hypothesis on the world's "missing women" -- the idea that millions of women are missing from the world due to sexual violence and discrimination -- by offering a biological explanation for the sex disparity.
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  Women under oppressive regimes: women and religious fundamentalisms

  Catholics for a Free Choice, 2002

  This paper examines women’s rights under fundamentalist regimes.
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  Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

  Gender and Development: Women Reinventing Globalisation, 2003

  This article, from Gender and Development, argues that there is an opportunity for increased feminist action around the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on reducing maternal mortality. The author outlines strategies to address maternal mortality and emphasises the importance for health systems to incorporate women’s access to emergency obstetric care (EmOC) in the event of birth complications.
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  Enlisting the armed forces to protect reproductive health and rights: lessons learned from nine countries

  United Nations Population Fund, 2003

  This paper is a comparative study of country experiences across regions, undertaken as part of a UNFPA interregional project ‘Improving Gender Perspective, Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention through Stronger Partnership with the Military.’ Its purpose is to inform future programming by identifying effective approaches for working with men in the uniformed services in reproductive and sexu
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  Women’s sexual control within conjugal union: Implications for HIV/AIDS infection and control in a metropolitan city

  Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2005

  This study, published in Demographic Research, examines the extent to which women have control over their sexuality within marriage in Lagos, Nigeria, and its implications for the spread of HIV. Findings from the study show that women have some control over their sexuality, such as during menstruation, breastfeeding, pregnancy and sickness.
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  Into good hands: progress reports from the field (a companion to the Maternal Mortality Update 2004)

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  This booklet, a companion to the Maternal Mortality Update 2004, documents research and interventions to improve skilled care at birth throughout the developing world.
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  Maternal mortality update 2004

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  Since 1998, the Maternal Mortality Update, a biannual publication of UNFPA, has documented strategies, partnerships and projects for reducing maternal mortality and morbidity in the developing world. This year's update focuses on the importance of skilled attendance at birth for improving maternal health, which is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals.

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