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    Positive Development

    Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, 1998
    In order for people living with HIV/AIDS to achieve greater involvement in every aspect of their lives and on the various local, national, regional and international platforms, they need to be able to develop and enhance their skills to participate in public debates and decision-making.
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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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    Women, Gender and HIV/AIDS in East and Southeast Asia Kit

    2001
    HIV/AIDS is a gender issue because men and women are vulnerable in different ways and vulnerability is influenced by the interaction of a wide range of personal and societal factors, including knowledge of and access to support services. A major factor in the spread of HIV through East and Southeast Asia is the mobility of its people.
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    An Introduction to Promoting Sexual Health for Men Who Have Sex with Men and Gay Men: A Training Manual

    2001
    South Asia currently has very few services addressing the needs of men who have sex with men (MSM) and gay men, and many experience discrimination when accessing mainstream health care services. This means there is a major gap in services for a large group of people living with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
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    Programme Brief on Gender and HIV/AIDS

    United Nations Population Fund, 2002
    Women and girls physiological susceptibility to HIV is compounded by social, cultural, economic and legal forms of discrimination. 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.
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    Gender and Relationships: A Practical Action Kit for Young People

    Healthlink Worldwide [formerly Appropriate Health Resources and Technologies Action Group ], 2001
    Gender has a big impact on male and female behaviour, but most young people are not aware of the effect of gender on their lives. This kit is designed to help young people facilitating youth programmes and adults working with young people to integrate gender issues into sexual and reproductive health programmes.
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    Global Health and Development: the Impact of Globalisation on the Health of Poor People

    Department for International Development, UK, 2000
    Globalisation has often had negative effects on health, for example, an increase in trade in cigarettes and unhealthy food have led to a deterioration of people's health particularly in middle income countries.
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    Viet Nam: Children and Women: A Situation Analysis, 2000

    2000
    Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) are mutually reinforcing and mutually dependant.
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    Women in Uzbekistan: Country Briefing Paper

    2001
    The economic transition in Uzbekistan has brought about worrisome trends in women's socio-economic status: the feminization of poverty, including higher levels of women's unemployment, deteriorating health and education status of women due mainly to the increasing cost of social services and other socio- economic factors.
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    Women in Mongolia: Mapping Progress under Transition

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2001
    This report outlines the crucial issues that have emerged and are being articulated by the women of Mongolia in the context of the political and economic transformation of their country over the last decade.

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