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    The case for microbicides: a global priority

    International Family Health, UK, 2001
    This report from The Population Council and International Family Health presents the case for microbicides, discusses recent progress and developments, and notes outstanding challenges. It goes on to outline the action required to accelerate research and development, and to ensure that products will be made available to those who most need them.
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    Risk and protection: youth and HIV/AIDS in sub-saharan Africa

    Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2004
    This report draws on data for 24 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa which shows that large proportions of adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have inadequate information on how to protect themselves against HIV, and substantial proportions are sexually active and engage in behaviors that place them at risk of becoming infected.It argues that any effort to curb HIV/AIDS requires changes in sociocultu
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    Women's reasons for not participating in follow up visits before starting short course antiretroviral prophylaxis for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV: qualitative interview study

    British Medical Journal, 2004
    This publication aims find out why pregnant women attending a public antenatal clinic in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire do not participate in necessary follow up visits before starting antiretroviral prophylaxis.
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    To have and to hold: women’s property and inheritance rights in the context of HIV/AIDS

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2004
    Produced by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) in collaboration with UNAIDS, this paper seeks to examine the link between HIV/AIDS and women’s property rights.
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    Facing the future together: report of the Secretary-General's Task Force on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2004
    This UNAIDS report, from the Secretary-General’s Task Force on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa, presents empirical data on the scale and character of the pandemic in nine countries in Southern Africa with the highest HIV prevalence rates.
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    Women, HIV/AIDS and the world of work

    International Labour Organization, 2004
    About half those living with HIV are women, but women are now becoming infected at a faster rate than men. Many women experience sexual and economic subordination in their personal relationships and at work, and so cannot negotiate safe sex or refuse unsafe sex.
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    Rwanda: “Marked for Death”, rape survivors living with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda

    Amnesty International, 2004
    This Amnesty International report explores the situation of rape survivors living with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda.
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    Integrating gender into HIV/AIDS programmes: a review paper

    World Health Organization, 2003
    This review paper aims to provide background information and a suggested framework for considering the issues and challenges of integrating gender into programmatic and policy action. It also offers some programmatic examples of successful HIV/AIDS interventions that have addressed gender issues in a meaningful and significant way.
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    Disentangling HIV and AIDS stigma in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2003
    This paper examines stigma and discrimination of HIV and AIDS in three countries, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. The project studied the complexities around stigma by investigating the causes, context (focusing on socio-economic status, youth and gender), experiences, coping strategies and consequences of stigma and discrimination.
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    Care, women and AIDS

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2004
    This fact sheet explores the impact that HIV and AIDS have had on the role that all over the world women are expected to take in domestic work and in providing care to family members. The document argues that HIV and AIDS have significantly increased the care burden for many women.

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