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  Partners for change: enlisting men in HIV/AIDS prevention

  United Nations Population Fund, 2000

  There is now growing recognition that enlisting men to prevent HIV infection is one of the surest ways to change the course of the epidemic. This report draws on the experiences of the United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) reproductive health programmes to identify the most effective ways of encouraging men to engage with HIV/AIDS prevention.
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  Men as partners: South African men respond to violence against women and HIV/AIDS

  EngenderHealth, 2002

  Men can, and often do, play a crucial role in promoting gender equity. This report by EngenderHealth discusses the shift within the field of sexual and reproductive health towards seeing men as an important part of the solution to HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence.
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  Male sexuality in the context of socio-economic change in rural and urban East Africa

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  HIV/AIDS prevention efforts have missed the point by concentrating on women's empowerment and women's ability to negotiate safer sex. HIV/AIDS work must also consider to what extent disempowered men in East Africa are motivated to practice safer sex.
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  Working with Young Men to Promote Gender Equality: An Experience in Brazil and Latin America

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Traditional beliefs about manhood in Brazil have been shown to directly correlate with unsafe sexual practices and violence against partners. This paper describes the Program H Initiative which was developed in 1999 by Instituto Promundo in Brazil and other collaborating Latin American organisations.
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  Where Angels Fear to Tread? Some Thoughts on Patricia McFadden's "Sexual Pleasure as Feminist Choice"

  African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2003

  This paper is written in response to Patricia Mcfadden's ?Sexual Pleasure as Feminist Choice?. It argues that Mcfadden's assumption that African women are universally sexually repressed overlooks the diversity of African women's sexualities.
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  Sexual Pleasure as Feminist Choice

  African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2003

  This paper condemns the many silences in the debates around African women's sexualities. It argues that African women are often fearful of considering the possibilities for sexual pleasure because of patriarchal concepts of women's sexuality as something ?bad? or "filthy?. This has led to the suppression of feminist energies and political action.
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  Good Women Bad Women: Addressing Violence in Women's Lives by Examining Social Constructs of Gender and Sexuality within CARE

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Can we empower women and protect them simultaneously? Gender-equity and sexual health programmes often focus on women's vulnerability and need for protection. But this is only part of the equation - another aspect of women's sexuality concerns their sexual pleasure.
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  The Club for Women's Advancement

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Sexuality remains a sensitive issue in Vietnamese society. Between 2000 and 2003, Viet Nam Family Planning Association (VINAFPA) - a local non-governmental organisation (NGO)- implemented a project to address the issues of reproductive health rights, gender equality and domestic violence in Vietnam. Four pilot ?Clubs for Women's Advancement? were set up.
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  Terms of Contact and Touching Change: Investigating Pleasure in an HIV Epidemic

  BRIDGE, 2005

  There is a real problem in the way that Western-led discussions of sexual health have fore-grounded warnings of 'what not to do'. If pleasure is one key reason why people have sex, sexual health work must open up discussion of how pleasure can be experienced with less risk. However there are challenges in addressing pleasure in safer sex work.
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  Eroticism, Sensuality and ?Women's Secrets? among the Baganda: A Critical Analysis

  Continental Feminist Studies Network, 2005

  African women are often seen as victims of sexual oppression, a portrayal which is both inaccurate and disempowering. This paper contests this simplistic assumption through an analysis of the institution of Ssenga among the Baganda people of Uganda. Ssenga is a form of sexual initiation, in which traditionally the paternal Aunt tutors young girls in a range of sexual matters.

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