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  Gender and risk in the design of social protection interventions

  World Bank, 2002

  This paper outlines a framework for analysing the gender dimensions of risk and its effects on the outcomes of individuals, households, and various vulnerable groups.
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  Maximizing conservation in Protected Areas: guidelines for gender consideration

  Gender and Environment /Genero y ambiente, 2003

  Women’s and men’s relationships with the environment in protected areas (PAs) and their buffer zones, in the context of their respective gender roles, are crucial for the very survival of these natural habitats.
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  The gender guide: for health communication programs

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  The purpose of this Guide is to encourage the incorporation of gender-based roles and responsibilities in the design, implementation, and evaluation of health communication programs.
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  Voices and choices: speaking-up for HIV- positive women in Zimbabwe

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Women with AIDS face neglect and prejudice all over the world.  Many are denied healthcare during pregnancy or forced to have abortions.  Some are sent away by their husband’s family to their parents’ home.  How can their situation be improved?  The International Community of Women living with HIV/AIDS set up a research project to find out the needs of HIV-positive women in Zimbabwe.  Women with t
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  Ask your aunty:  sex education in rural Uganda

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Developing sex education for young people in sub-Saharan Africa is essential if the battle against HIV is to be won. Information about sex and marriage has traditionally been passed on to young girls by the 'senga', their father’s sister, in rural Uganda.  The UK's Medical Research Council carried out a pilot study which adapted this traditional institution in an attempt to combat AIDS.
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  Screen test: detecting and treating syphilis in pregnant women in Tanzania

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Up to 17 per cent of pregnant women in sub- Saharan Africa are infected with syphilis. This has serious consequences for their baby’s health. Research co-ordinated by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine looked at poor pregnancy outcomes due to syphilis in Mwanza Region, Tanzania, and the impact of treatment.
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  Land liberalisation in Africa: inflicting collateral damage on women?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Is the World Bank’s approach to land relations gender insensitive? Is it realistic to pin poverty reduction aspirations on the promotion of credit markets and reliance on women’s unpaid labour? Does the acquisition of secure tenure rights necessarily benefit poor women? How should advocates of women’s rights in Africa respond to the Bank’s land agenda?
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  On best behaviour: men's attitudes to sexual health in Cambodia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The HIV epidemic in Cambodia is one of the most serious in Asia. The main cause of the rapid increase in infection is unprotected heterosexual sex.
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  Guatemala City: a focus on working women and childcare

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper assesses the problems that female headed household face in terms of employment and childcare in Guatemala, and examines the impact of a public daycare programme on their employment opportunities and the nutrition of their children.Findings:the number of urban women who work for an income in Guatemala increased to 28% in 1999, 20% more than at the beginning of the decade.
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  Adolescent girls literacy initiative for reproductive health (A GIFT for RH)

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  This paper reports on a study that examines the impact of a health-focused literacy class in Nepal that combines reproductive health knowledge along with literacy training.

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