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  Promoting Gender-Sensitive Entrepreneurship Via Microfinance Institutions

  2005

  How can microfinance institutions (MFIs) become more gender-sensitive? Microfinance is often praised because it is believed to facilitate women's 'empowerment'.
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  Defining sexual health: report of a technical consultation on sexual health, 28-31 January, 2002, Geneva

  World Health Organization, 2006

  A technical consultation on sexual health was convened in Geneva, Switzerland, from 28 to 31 January 2002, as a joint effort between the World Health Organisation and the World Association of Sexology, and funded by the Ford Foundation.
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  BRIDGE Occasional paper: Gender and Sex - a sample of definitions

  BRIDGE, 2006

  There has been much debate regarding the meanings of 'gender' and 'sex'. Gender is most commonly used as a contrasting term to sex, as that which is socially or culturally constructed as opposed to that which is biologically given.
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  Pregnant women living with HIV/AIDS: protecting human rights in programmes to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV

  Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2005

  Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programmes are designed to reduce the rate of transmission from a woman to her fetus (unborn baby) or newborn during pregnancy, delivery, or the post-birth period.
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  Sex and the rights of man

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  This paper explores the subject of sexual rights and the claims about such rights as they are made by and for men. It asks: what can men's interest be in the social and sexual revolution being proposed by advocates of sexual rights? The first answer to this question is to recognise that some men's sexual rights have long been violated.
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  Mapping of experiences of access to care, treatment and support

  International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, 2006

  As a positive woman, how do you try to stay healthy? What barriers do you face in trying to access medication? In 2006, ICW mapped positive women's experiences of access to care, treatment and support in three countries - Tanzania, Kenya and Namibia.
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  BRIDGE Bibliography 18: Women and girls living with HIV/AIDS: overview and annotated bibliography

  BRIDGE, 2007

  HIV/AIDS is both driven by and entrenches gender inequality, leaving women more vulnerable than men to its impact. This report - consisting of an overview, annotated bibliography, and contacts section - considers the specific challenges faced by women and girls who are living with HIV and AIDS.
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  Action Plan for Sida's work on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in International Development Cooperation

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2006

  In many parts of the world lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons are subject to cultural and legal injustice, leading in turn to economic injustice.
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  Human Rights and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

  Amnesty International, 2004

  Amnesty International has been researching and documenting human rights abuses based on sexual orientation or gender identity for more than a decade. The stigma and prejudice surrounding non-conforming sexual orientations and gender identities means that such cases are rarely documented. Where official complaints are made they are frequently met with official indifference.
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  Putting Sexuality (Back) into HIV/AIDS: Issues, Theory and Practice

  Routledge, 2007

  After more than 20 years of programming and activism aimed at stemming the sexual transmission of HIV, the epidemic continues to grow worldwide. This paper argues that one of the reasons for the limited success of HIV prevention initiatives is the marginalisation of sexuality in HIV and AIDS programming.

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