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    Women's Health and HIV: Experiences from a Sex Workers' Project in Calcutta

    Oxfam, 2000
    The current rate of HIV/AIDS infection in India is very high. For most Indian women it is almost impossible to contemplate assertiveness in a sexual relationship with a man and negotiate safer sex. However there is a movement of sex workers in Sonagachi who are successfully negotiating safer sex relationships with clients as well as better treatment from society including from the police.
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    The HIV/Gender Continuum

    2002
    How gender-sensitive are your HIV and family planning services? Use The International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region's (IPPF/WHR) HIV/Gender Continuum to find out.
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    Danger and Opportunity: Responding to HIV with Vision

    Oxfam, 2001
    Humanity has been unable to meet the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS these past twenty years. Most people working on HIV have developed an 'us and them' approach, focusing mainly on prevention work among groups of people who are viewed as 'vulnerable groups' and from whom workers think they can clearly distinguish themselves.
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    AIDS, Sexuality and Gender in Africa: Collective Strategies and Struggles in Tanzania and Zambia

    Routledge, 2000
    How can women fight against AIDS without the co-operation of men? A recent global shift towards the recognition that men are driving the AIDS epidemic raises two key challenges: to devise campaigns which treat men as individuals, and secondly to remember that what needs changing is not individual men and women but the relations between them.
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    Gambian Experiences with Stepping Stones: 1996-99

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2000
    The Gambia is an Islamic country with a low HIV prevalence rate. Very few people have publicly declared themselves to be HIV positive so many people are doubtful it exists. Men are generally very suspicious of family planning (including condom use) and this is supported by some Muslim clerics who believe it to be against the Qur'an.
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    Unpublished: Feminism at Work: A Case Study of Transforming Power Relations in Everyday Life: Puntos de Encuentro

    1998
    Born into a post-revolutionary country under a right wing government, Puntos de Encuentro­Ýs mandate is to foster equal and positive relations free from violence in daily life, in both private and public spheres, between men and women, and between young people and adults.
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    Promoting the Participation of Men in Community-based HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care in Cambodia

    2002
    In some countries such as Cambodia, the main form of HIV transmission is heterosexual sex. Men have more sex partners than women, and often engage in commercial sex. There is therefore a need for greater emphasis on working with men towards greater awareness of HIV prevention and care, particularly since projects and programmes around sexual health have usually targeted women.
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    Addressing Gender Perspectives in HIV Prevention

    United Nations Population Fund, 2002
    Lack of respect for women's human rights, gender-based violence and lack of access to gender-sensitive sexual health education and services leave women and girls disproportionately vulnerable to HIV. That is why gender inequality has to be addressed in HIV prevention programming.
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    Facing the Challenges of HIV, AIDS, STDs: a Gender-based Response

    Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information and Dissemination Service, 1996
    The proportion of women with HIV/AIDS has increased dramatically. Gender- related factors, such as the social expectation that men control women in all aspects of relationships, affect HIV-infection risks and obstacles to prevention and care. A gender-based response promotes shared responsibility for prevention and care between men and women.
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    Gender and HIV/AIDS: Guidelines for Integrating a Gender Focus into NGO Work on HIV/AIDS

    Save the Children Fund, 2002
    The first step for agencies planning to undertake work on HIV/AIDS in the community must be to train staff to enable them to work more sensitively and effectively at community level.

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