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  Dying to Learn: Young People HIV/Aids and the Churches

  Christian Aid, 2003

  Churches have been concerned that sexual health and HIV education may lead to promiscuity amongst young people. This report examines the evidence from rigorous academic studies. It concludes that sexual health and HIV education, including related life-skills education does not hasten sexual debut and does not increase the number of sexual partners.
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  Sexuality, Religion, Human Rights

  International Lesbian and Gay Association, 2006

  How do the different religions in Europe interact with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) movement? This newsletter of the International Lesbian and Gay Association explores new thinking on sexuality and gender by European Muslims, Catholics and Jews.
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  A World View: Catholic Attitudes on Sexual Behaviour and Reproductive Health

  2004

  The Roman Catholic Church has become the focus of significant controversy in recent years, especially for its views on issues such as sexuality, reproduction, divorce and the family. In particular, its position against the use of condoms as a way of reducing the transmission of HIV and the spread of AIDS has been heavily criticised.
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  Complying with the Law? How Catholic Hospitals Respond to State Laws Mandating the Provision of Emergency Contraception to Sexual Assaults Victims

  2006

  In the United States five percent of women who have been sexually assaulted become pregnant as a result of the attack, the majority of which undergo elective abortion. This report argues that women who have experienced sexual assault should have easy access to emergency contraception (EC).
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  Attitudes of Catholics on Reproductive Rights, Church-State, and Related Issues: Three National Surveys in Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico

  2003

  Nationally and internationally, the opinions of Catholics on the role of the church in their lives, varies. The report, prepared for Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), outlines key issues in which the opinions of Catholics in Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico has differed from that of the Vatican, focussing on reproductive rights.
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  Gender, Religious Involvement, and HIV/AIDS Prevention in Mozambique

  2005

  How does religion affect how women and men perceive HIV/AIDS? The potential of a faith-based response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere has been widely lauded by religious institutions, sympathetic governments, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
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  Women Under Oppressive Regimes: Women and Religious Fundamentalisms

  Conscience Magazine, 2001

  What strategies can be most effectively employed to combat the fundamentalist movements which threaten women's reproductive health?
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  Culture Matters. Working with Communities and Faith-Based Organisations: Case Studies from Country Programmes

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  Empowering women and meeting women's needs for education and health, including reproductive health, were identified as core development objectives at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).
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  Young Men and the Construction of Masculinity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for HIV/AIDS, Conflict, and Violence

  World Bank, 2005

  In the literature on conflict and HIV/AIDS, African men are often presented in simplistic and explicitly negative terms. It is generally taken for granted that those who use weapons are men whilst those who suffer the consequences of conflict are women, and that men always hold power in sexual relationships whilst women are always powerless.
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  Case Study: Screening, Referral and Follow-up of a GBV Case in PLAFAM, Venezuela

  International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2001

  Service users of the Asociaci¢n Civil de Planificaci¢n Familiar (PLAFAM), Venezuela, will be asked screening questions to ascertain whether they may be victims of gender-based violence (GBV). This document follows the screening, referral and follow-up of one client and her PLAFAM counsellor.

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