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    Gender Equality Now or Never: A New UN Agency for Women

    Office of the UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa, 2006
    How must the United Nations (UN) change in order to deliver better outcomes for women? The UN's current mix of low-level departments, divisions and committees working on gender has been inadequate in pushing the gender equality agenda forward.
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    Gender, HIV/AIDS and Stigma: Understanding Prejudice Against Women Living with HIV/AIDS

    BRIDGE, 2006
    62 men and women between the ages of 18 and 55 from the Khayelitsha Township in the Western Cape participated in six focus groups in this study about the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS. They reported that HIV/AIDS is seen as a woman's disease. This is not simply because most women die from it but also because positive women experience stigma more than men. Norms of ?township masculinity?
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    Using Participatory Media to Explore Gender Relations and HIV/AIDS Amongst South African Youth: The example of DramAidE

    2004
    This paper outlines the history of DramAidE, and explores the approaches this project has used in an attempt to reduce risk of HIV infection amongst young people, and to sensitise them to issues of gender, culture and tradition.
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    Gender-based Violence and HIV/AIDS in Cambodia: Links, Opportunities and Potential Responses

    2005
    Gender based violence (GBV) and HIV/AIDS are rampant in Cambodia. GBV ranges from sexual harassment to rape, from domestic violence or intimate partner violence to trafficking. Evidence points to the growing levels of sexual violence and the increasing transmission from husband to wife as trends which indicate the importance of exploring the link between HIV/AIDS and GBV.
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    Women as Managers of the Public Space: a Participatory Experience in Gender and Water in El Hormiguero, Colombia

    Universidad del Valle, 2003
    The dynamics of participation that develop in water projects to defend the collective interest are deeply affected by unequal gender relations. In the case of El Hormiguero, a rural area of Santiago de Cali, Colombia, the approach to participation highlighted the importance of the role played by women in creating and building up public spaces.
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    Show us the money: is violence againts women on the HIV&AIDS donor agenda?

    Women Won't Wait, 2007
    Two pandemics threaten the health, lives and rights of women throughout the world: one is HIV and AIDS and the other is gender-based violence. Research confirms that intimate partner violence is a leading factor in the increasing ?feminization? of the global AIDS pandemic, resulting in disproportionately higher rates of HIV infection among women and girls.
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    Gender Equality Results in ADB Projects: Cambodia Country Report

    Asian Development Bank, 2006
    In 2001/2, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) gave loans to Cambodia for projects in rural development, health and Commune Council development. The first two programmes had forms of Gender Action Plans (GAPs), and the third did not. This report assesses how the incorporation or non-inclusion of GAPs in programmes affected outcomes for women.
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    Combined Initial, Second and Third CEDAW Periodic Reports: Cambodia

    2004
    What steps has Cambodia's government taken to achieve gender equality since ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in October 2002? In this first report to the CEDAW Committee, the government outlines progress in a range of areas.
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    Participation in Sexual and Reproductive Well-being and Rights

    2004
    One of the main aims of participatory development work is to facilitate the expression of people's perspectives, to listen and support the giving of ideas, and to allow participants to grow. In the area of sexual and reproductive well-being and rights, however, participatory approaches are falling short.
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    Effect of a Participatory Intervention with Women's Groups on Birth Outcomes in Nepal: Cluster-Randomised Trial

    The Lancet, 2004
    How can high rates of infant mortality in developing countries be more effectively tackled? In Kathmandu, Nepal, a team from Mother and Infant Research Activities (MIRA) undertook a low-cost, community-based participatory intervention with women's groups to test the impact of peer education on birth outcomes in an economically poor rural population.

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