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  Implementing adolescent reproductive rights through the Convention on the Rights of the Child

  Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 1999

  One in five people in the world is an adolescent. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) encompasses the human rights of people aged 0-18, hence by definition includes adolescents. Yet there remains a significant gap between provisions prescribed in the CRC and the reality of adolescents' reproductive health and lives.
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  Counselling Guidelines on Domestic Violence

  South African AIDS Trust, 2001

  The South African AIDS Trust (SAT) HIV Counselling Guidelines series provides practical guidance to those counselling people who fear being or are infected with HIV, and those living with or caring for people with AIDS. The Domestic Violence guidelines are the result of a workshop on HIV/AIDS and domestic violence organised by the Musasa Project - a Harare-based gender advocacy organisation.
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  Just Die Quietly: Domestic Violence and Women's Vulnerability to HIV in Uganda

  2003

  Domestic violence, including marital rape, is exposing Ugandan women to HIV infection. This report is based on 120 interviews with women across Uganda and further interviews with government officials, NGOs, police, community leaders and traditional healers. Most of the women see sex with husbands as a marital obligation and domestic violence as an inevitable part of marriage.
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  Deadly Delay: South Africa's Efforts to Prevent HIV in Survivors of Sexual Violence

  2004

  In South Africa women and girls not only suffer the trauma of sexual violence but face the trauma of potential HIV infection. Risk of transmission however, is reduced if rape survivors are promptly given antiretroviral drugs (called in this case 'post-exposure prophylaxis' [PEP]). In 2002 the South African government took the significant step of pledging to provide PEPs to all rape survivors.
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  Why Should we Care about Unpaid Care Work?

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  The failure of macroeconomic policies to acknowledge unpaid care work - such as housework, cooking, and caring for children, older people, and sick or disabled people - has a significant impact on women's lives. How can we ensure that unpaid care work is visible and accounted for in macro- and micro-level policy-making?
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  HIV-positive women report more lifetime partner violence: findings from a voluntary counseling and testing clinic in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  American Journal of Public Health, 2002

  How are rates of HIV affected by levels of violence against women? This study explores the link between HIV and violence against women (VAW) by comparing the experiences of partner violence among HIV-positive and HIV-negative women in Tanzania. The study found that there was a strong association between prior history of violence and a woman's HIV status.
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  Working with men responding to AIDS: gender, sexuality and HIV – a case study collection

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2003

  Across the world, people working on HIV/AIDS are recognising the importance of working with men in order to have a real impact on the epidemic. There are many reasons why it is important to work with men. Some of these reasons are to do with the power that men have and some are to do with the problems that they face.
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  Learning from Experience: Strengthening Organisations of Women with Disabilities

  One World Action, 2001

  Whilst all women in Nicaragua are prone to gender-based discrimination and violence, disabled women experience specific problems, such as physical and social isolation, and the paternalistic attitudes of non-disabled people. This case study analyses the experiences and lessons learnt from the Disabled Women's Programme set up by Fundación Solidez in 1991.
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  Addressing gender-based violence from the reproductive health/HIV sector: a literature review and analysis

  US Agency for International Development, 2004

  This USAID Interagency Gender Working Group document provides a literature review and analysis of developing country programmes that have addressed or challenged gender-based violence with a link to the reproductive health (RH)/HIV sectors.
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  Rethinking Domestic Violence: A Training Process for Community Activists

  Raising Voices, 2012

  The Training Process is a programme tool for strengthening the capacity of a wide range of community actors such as trainers and activists to prevent domestic violence. It is a series of training sessions that will help participants think about, discuss and take action to prevent domestic violence.

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