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  Public Choices, Private Decisions: Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals

  United Nations Development Programme, 2006

  Apart from being important in and of itself, ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is instrumentally important for achieving many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This report brings out the linkages between the Programme of Action from the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the MDGs.
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  Position statement: injecting drug users and access to HIV treatment

  International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, 2005

  In 2005, there were an estimated 13.2 million injecting drug users worldwide, 80% of whom live in developing and transitional countries.
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  Dying to Learn: Young People HIV/Aids and the Churches

  Christian Aid, 2003

  Churches have been concerned that sexual health and HIV education may lead to promiscuity amongst young people. This report examines the evidence from rigorous academic studies. It concludes that sexual health and HIV education, including related life-skills education does not hasten sexual debut and does not increase the number of sexual partners.
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  Sexuality, Religion, Human Rights

  International Lesbian and Gay Association, 2006

  How do the different religions in Europe interact with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) movement? This newsletter of the International Lesbian and Gay Association explores new thinking on sexuality and gender by European Muslims, Catholics and Jews.
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  Gender mainstreaming strategy for the China-UK HIV/AIDS prevention and care project

  Siyanda, 2003

  International experience has demonstrated that gender must be addressed if HIV/ AIDS prevention and care is to be effective. Overall, the China-UK HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Project is moving in the right direction on gender by aiming for participation and empowerment of primary stakeholders.
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  Male sexuality in the context of socio-economic change in rural and urban East Africa

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  HIV/AIDS prevention efforts have missed the point by concentrating on women's empowerment and women's ability to negotiate safer sex. HIV/AIDS work must also consider to what extent disempowered men in East Africa are motivated to practice safer sex.
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  Sexual Pleasure as Feminist Choice

  African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2003

  This paper condemns the many silences in the debates around African women's sexualities. It argues that African women are often fearful of considering the possibilities for sexual pleasure because of patriarchal concepts of women's sexuality as something ?bad? or "filthy?. This has led to the suppression of feminist energies and political action.
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  Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues in Development: a Study of Swedish Policy and Administration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in International Development Cooperation

  2005

  Homosexual and transgender persons are often excluded from international sexual and reproductive health work. This report is based on a study of Swedish policy and administration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) issues in international development cooperation. It is the first report of its kind to be conducted by a governmental donor organisation.
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  Terms of Contact and Touching Change: Investigating Pleasure in an HIV Epidemic

  BRIDGE, 2005

  There is a real problem in the way that Western-led discussions of sexual health have fore-grounded warnings of 'what not to do'. If pleasure is one key reason why people have sex, sexual health work must open up discussion of how pleasure can be experienced with less risk. However there are challenges in addressing pleasure in safer sex work.
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  Not So Strange Bedfellows: Sexual Rights and International Development

  Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

  Is sexuality less important than poverty? This article, based on a session facilitated by BRIDGE at the 2005 Association of Women's Rights in Development (AWID) conference, explores the connections between development and sexuality. The speakers argue that sexuality is itself a survival issue.

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