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  Children's Property and Inheritance Rights and Their Livelihoods: The Context of HIV and AIDS in Southern and East Africa

  2006

  There are 34 million orphans in Africa, of which 11 million are AIDS orphans (nearly 80 per cent of the world's total). Extended family support systems, which once absorbed and assumed care for orphans, have become weaker in recent years, as families have become increasingly urbanised, industrialised and nuclear.
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  Evaluation of Stepping Stones: a gender transformative HIV prevention intervention

  Medical Research Council, South Africa, 2007

  Stepping Stones is an HIV prevention programme that aims to improve sexual health through building stronger, more gender-equitable relationships with better communication between partners.
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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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  Midwives assisting homebirths face opposition in rural Bangladesh

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Why is it that in Bangladesh many women still die during child labour, and what difference could training of midwives make for homebirths? In Bangladesh, 91 percent of births still take place at home and only 13 percent are assisted by a doctor or midwife.
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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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  Lesbians, Health and Human Rights from a Latin American Perspective

  Convencion.org, 2002

  All women have a right to good health, whether they are heterosexual, bisexual or lesbian. In this document, Latin American lesbian communities present their perspectives on their right to good health and explore challenges and recommendations.
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  The Gender Millennium Development Goal: What Water, Sanitation and Hygiene can do in India

  Water and Environmental Health at London and Loughborough, 2007

  Women in Indian communities are the primary carriers and users of water. Providing water source at a reasonable (250 metres) distance gives women more time for rest, time for their children and reduces the effort of carrying heavy loads of water to their home. It also reduces the chances of disease and provides time and money for women to form Self Help Groups and income generation activities.
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  Reducing HIV/AIDS Stigma, Discrimination and Gender-based Violence Among Health Care Providers in Andhra Pradesh, India

  2006

  Stigma and gender-based violence are widely recognised as two key factors that restrict the effectiveness of HIV prevention programmes. Both inhibit individuals from adopting risk-reducing behaviours and accessing services for HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
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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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