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    Policy Approaches to Working with Men to Improve Men's Health and Achieve Gender Equality

    BRIDGE, 2007
    What policies are in place to address issues such as men and violence, men and sexual and reproductive health services, male circumcision, and men and substance use? What are the operational barriers to policy implementation? What new policies are needed and which departments should be involved in setting and implementing policy?
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    Unequal, unfair, ineffective and inefficient. Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it.

    Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network, 2007
    Gender differentials in health related risks and outcomes are partly determined by biological sex differences. Yet they are also the result of how societies socialise women and men into gender roles. For example, in many societies, practices around sexuality sometimes include ritual (and painful) 'deflowering' of brides and sanctioned marital rape.
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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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    Waiting Opportunities: Adolescent Girls' Experiences of Gender-Based Violence at Schools

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006
    To what extent do adolescent girls in South Africa experience gender-based violence in their heterosexual relationships at school? What is being done to support victims and change attitudes towards violence?
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    Daai Ding: Sex, Sexual Violence and Coercion in Men's Prisons

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2002
    Sex in men's prison most often happens in the context of 'prison marriages' with one man being a 'husband' and the other the 'wife'. Prisoners report that like (in their view of) heterosexual husband and wife relationships, the husband owns and controls the wife. Prison gangs identify who is a 'man' and a 'woman' and regulate prisoners' attempts to be promoted from 'woman' to 'man'.
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    Your Brother, My Wife: Sex and Gender Behind Bars

    2003
    While media reports on prison corruption have played a role in bringing sex, sexual violence and varying levels of sexual coercion more into the public arena, generally not much is understood about the dynamics of sex in men's prisons.
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    "Man Hunt Intimacy: Man Clean Bathroom": Women, Sexual Pleasure, Gender Violence and HIV

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Men's contribution - or lack of it - to household tasks and expenditure and the daily burden of running a home is closely linked to sexual dissatisfaction, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. Men seek comfort by having sex with other women, and their wives also turn to other men for sex in order to buy school clothes for their children or food for the daily meal.
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    SysteMALEtizing: Resources for Engaging Men in Sexual and Reproductive Health

    2006
    This brochure highlights key resources for working with men and provides a framework for distinguishing among the varied programmes, research and tools that are available. The framework reflects different approaches to such work: men are viewed as ?clients? (focusing on men's own reproductive health needs), as ?partners?
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    Gender and Sexuality Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Sexuality can bring misery through sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, or marginalisation of those who break the rules, such as non-macho men, single women, widows who re-marry, sex workers, people with same-sex sexualities, and transgender people. Sexuality can also bring joy, affirmation, intimacy and well-being.
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    Gender and Sexuality: Overview Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Why are gender and sexuality important for policymakers, practitioners and activists? Sexuality and gender can combine to make a huge difference in people's lives - between well-being and ill-being, and sometimes between life and death.

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