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    Locked doors: the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS in China

    Human Rights Watch, 2003
    China faces what could be the largest HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world. At least 1.5 million men, women and children are affected, and probably many more. During the 1990s local authorities in at least 7 provinces were complicit in transmission of HIV to hundreds of thousands or even millions of villagers through an unsafe but highly profitable blood collection industry.
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    Between men: HIV/STI prevention for men who have sex with men

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2003
    Sex between men is one of the primary ways in which HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are passed on. Yet official indifference or hostility means that there are few prevention and care programmes for men who have sex with men in developing countries.
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    Abstinence-Only Education (in the USA): Fact Sheet

    Planned Parenthood Federation of America Incorporated, 2001
    Since the 1980s Christian right-wing fundamentalist groups in the USA have been lobbying for abstinence-only-before-marriage education instead of sex education in US schools. Their efforts have met with some success.
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    Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk About Sexuality

    Harvard University Press, 2002
    This book is based on interviews with teenage girls in the USA about how they experience sexual desire. All of the girls were highly aware of the dangers surrounding sex including getting a bad reputation, pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, rape and violence. They have received these messages from parents and in school.
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    Sexuality - a Super Force: Young People, Sexuality and Rights in the era of HIV/AIDS

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2002
    "Sex is Good - Sex is Joy - Sex is Fun - Sex is Love - Sex is Power - Protected Sex is Life!" This is the message of this booklet, which argues that sexuality is natural and needed for procreation, and sexual drive is important for intimacy and pleasure. Many young people have sex during their teens, whether their parents know this or not.
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    Development Myths Around Sex and Sexualities in the South

    BRIDGE, 2003
    In development representations of the South, sexuality is either ignored, or discussed only in relation to disease and violence, or reproductive decision making based on material interests.
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    Gender and HIV/AIDS Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
    Why, after 20 years of international responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic are infection rates still on the increase? Why are the numbers of women living with HIV increasing faster than the number of men? HIV/AIDS is not only driven by gender inequality - it makes gender inequality worse, putting women, men and children further at risk.
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    Key Issues on Gender and HIV/AIDS in China

    BRIDGE, 2003
    Inequality, including gender inequality has fuelled the HIV/AIDS epidemic globally. The UNIFEM publication 'Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic' identifies how gender discrimination and inequality have contributed to the spread of HIV/AIDS, and how meeting CEDAW commitments to end gender inequality can help turn the HIV/AIDS tide.
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    Meeting the sexual health needs of men who have sex with men in Senegal

    Horizons, 2002
    This study explores the health situation and needs of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Senegal. Many MSM identify as either 'Ibis', who act feminine and are less dominant in sexual encounters, or 'Yoos', who are generally the dominant penetrative partner during sex and who do not consider themselves to be homosexuals.
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    Auntie Stella: Teenagers Talk about Sex, Life and Relationships

    Training and Research Support Centre, 1998
    Does my culture mean I must sleep with my sister's husband? I'm looking after someone with AIDS - can I get infected? Schools are a site of vulnerability to HIV infection. Girls are particularly at risk from abuse by teachers and older pupils.

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