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    Building blocks: Africa-wide briefing notes

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2003
    These briefing notes for working with children are organised into an overview and five sections:EducationHealth and nutritionPsychosocial supportSocial inclusionEconomic strengtheningEach briefing note provides issues and principles for guiding strategy, while drawing on best practice from programme experience.
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    Gender, women and HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Pan American Health Organization, 2002
    In the context of the 2001 UNGASS commitments to address gender issues of HIV/AIDS, this paper discusses the effect of female and male gender roles, power relations and sexual behaviour on the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Latin American and Caribbean Region (LAC), specifically exploring women’s vulnerability to the epidemic.The authors begin by discussing gender and sexuality and LAC social const
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    Addressing the general and reproductive health of women in global supply chains

    Business for Social Responsibility, 2002
    Women comprise a majority of the workforce in labor-intensive manufacturing industries such as apparel, footwear, toys, electronics, food processing and house-wares. They also work extensively in the informal sector, including in agriculture and handicrafts. The working environment in these industries can present health hazards to both male and female workers.
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    Gendered world: students and instructional technologies

    First Monday, 2003
    Gender has become a significant issue in the various discussions related to the use of computers and instructional technologies (IT) in higher education. The authors of this paper ask:are gender differences relevant in the students' learning process and their use of technological components in their courses?
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    AIDS in Ethiopia: fourth edition

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2002
    This update on HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia is based on double the amount of data previously used to estimate prevalence in the country.
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    Intentionally sustainable: how community based natural resource management encourages the sustainable use of resources

    Community-Based Natural Resource Management Asia Virtual Resource Centre, 1999
    This paper presents a framework to explain how CBRM programs can help people to move from unsustainable to sustainable resource use and shows how gender concerns that affect CBRM efforts fit in the framework.The author focuses on increasing the tangible, economic benefits that people perceive they derive from a resource.
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    Gender or sex: who cares?: skills-building resource pack on gender and reproductive health for adolescents and youth workers

    IPAS, 2001
    This training resource aims to fill the gap of training materials focussed specifically at professionals and volunteers who work with young people concerning the influence of gender on sexual reproductive issues.The resource pack:provides a workshop curriculum that incorporates suggestions and feedback from organizations in various regions of the world so that it can be easily adapted t
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    Estimating the size of populations at risk for HIV: issues and methods

    Family Health International, 2002
    Much of Africa has long-established HIV surveillance systems tracking infection in pregnant women.
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    Mainstreaming gender into the Kenya national HIV/AIDS strategic plan 2000-2005

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2002
    This report documents the process taken by the Kenyan National AIDS Control Council to mainstream gender in the National HIV/AIDS Strategic Plan.The motivation to mainstream gender in the national plan came from the fact that no explicit strategies on gender were included in it despite the overwhleming evidence that the incidence of HIV/AIDS among women was rising at a shocking rate and women w
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    Advocacy for action on stigma and HIV/AIDS in Africa

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    As a result of a major consultation on HIV/AIDS related stigma held in Tanzania, the participants collaborated to produce this advocacy for action plan. The plan was drawn up in recognition of the fact that all are affected by HIV/AIDS and stigma - characterised by silence, fear, discrimination and denial - fuels the epidemic.

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