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    Burma: The Current State of Women in Conflict Areas. A Shadow Report To The 22nd Session of CEDAW

    Women of Burma, 2000
    Produced by indigenous women's organisations from Burma, this report highlights issues in education, health, violence and poverty as they affect women in Burma, particularly in rural conflict areas. The ruling military regime - the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) - has used force to maintain its control.
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    Female Sex Work in Yangon, Myanmar

    2005
    Myanmar (Burma), with an upper estimate of 400,000 people living with HIV/AIDS, faces a dangerous and potentially devastating epidemic. Female sex workers in the country are one of the most affected populations, with high prevalence rates of both HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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    GenderStats on Myanmar

    World Bank, 2004
    Myanmar has a population of over 50,000, of which over 50.3 percent are women. Life expectancy is 64 years of age for women compared to 58 for men. Yet only 86.4 percent of women are literate compared to 93.9 percent of men. These are some of the statistics available from GenderStats, an electronic database of gender statistics hosted by the World Bank.
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    Picture Theatre ?Twin Angels?

    Japanese Organisation for International Cooperation in Family Planning, 2006
    Based on real events observed in rural Myanmar, the picture theatre "Twin Angels" is produced for advocacy and Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) and addresses issues around safe adolescent motherhood. The story evolves around twin sisters, NiNi and YiYi, who face different fates because of the different health care and support they receive during their pregnancies.
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    Any Progress for The Lives of Women in Burma since Beijing?

    2005
    Contrary to reports from Burma's ruling military regime on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) (the plan to come out of the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women), women in Myanmar do not enjoy equal rights with men.
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    HIV positive women and drug and alcohol use

    International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, 2007
    Silent Voices, a participatory ICW project carried out by and for HIV positive women, researched services available for HIV positive drug/alcohol using women living in London, UK, and explored their experiences of using these services.
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    Mapping multilateral development banks’ reproductive health and HIV/AIDS spending

    Gender Action, 2007
    This is the first report testing Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) commitment to promote reproductive health, prevent HIV and treat AIDS. It analyses the quantity and quality of MDB funding for these sectors during 2003-2006 and highlights how MDB and International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies undermine achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reproductive health and HIV/AIDS targets.
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    Proposed Indicators to measure the targets set by the international Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2002
    This document is part of a proposal being developed to generate a system of indicators to measure progress towards meeting the objectives of the Action Plan of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Latin America and the Caribbean. A regional system of indicators is proposed to measure progress and identify inequalities among the various population groups.
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    Monitoring & Evaluation Programme of the African Plan of Action to Accelerate the Implementation of the Dakar & Beijing Platforms for Action Part I: A Guide to Data Collection for Impact Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming on the Status of African Women

    2004
    How can we measure the impact on the status of women of the Beijing and Dakar Platforms for Action in African countries ten years after the Platforms were established? This manual aims to give clear guidance to gender impact assessment evaluators on how to carry out such monitoring.
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    Monitoring Gender Indicators in Health in Chile

    BRIDGE, 2003
    How can we monitor progress in reducing health inequalities between men and women in Chile? This document proposes a set of indicators for this purpose. At a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) workshop on gender, equity and health reform in Chile, priority issues for tackling gender inequalities in health were identified by civil society members.

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