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Searching with a thematic focus on HIV and AIDS transmission, prevention and testing, HIV and AIDS, HIV and AIDS citizenship and rights, Sexual rights, HIV and AIDS vulnerable groups

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  Regional policy and model legislation to address HIV and AIDS related stigma and discrimination

  Caribbean Community Secretariat, 2010

  This publication, commissioned by CARICOM, is a desk review report of existing legislative frameworks affecting people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their families in eleven countries in the Caribbean.  The study highlights findings around stigma and discrimination and the legal frameworks as presented below:
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  HIV in Pakistan: preventing a future epidemic in most-at-risk groups

  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2009

  Very low levels of HIV and AIDS awareness and condom use, together with high-risk sexual behaviours in vulnerable groups such as injecting drug-users and sex workers, make Pakistan a potentially high-risk country for HIV spread. Current HIV prevalence is generally low but STI levels are high in some at-risk groups.
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  Painful tradeoffs: intimate-partner violence and sexual and reproductive health rights in Kenya

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008

  Intimate-partner violence involves multiple violations of sexual and reproductive rights, with devastating impacts on the health and wellbeing of those affected. This paper from the Institute of Development Studies details the results of an action-research collaboration between a Kenyan gender-based violence rehabilitation NGO and a research programme.
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  Rethinking sexuality and policy

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  What do sexuality and policy have to do with each other? This issue of id21 insights considers the policies and politics that surround sexuality asking what enables sexual contact? What sets up the dynamics of relationships? And what will the consequences be?
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  Comprehensive approaches to HIV prevention

  Exchange, 2007

  This issue of Exchange argues that a comprehensive approach to HIV prevention must include a commitment to promoting sexual and reproductive rights and to creating social change. The magazine highlights the work of a number of HIV projects that address the structural issues of power and inequality that are driving the epidemic.
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  Sexuality, development and human rights

  Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006

  This paper from the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Expert Group on Development Issues calls for a new approach to sexuality and development. It argues that development policy has mainly concentrated on reproductive issues, or on the negative aspects of sexuality such as HIV infection and sexual violence.
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  Vulnerability, risk and sexual rights

  Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide, 2005

  This think piece, prepared for a UNAIDS workshop on Vulnerability and AIDS, suggests how sexual rights and sexual pleasure could play a role in bridging the gaps in HIV strategies. The author outlines how the UNAIDS strategy framework for intensifying HIV prevention is based on three interrelated factors: risk reduction, vulnerability and impact reduction.
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  2003 National HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health Survey (NARHS), Nigeria

  HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse, 2003

  This National HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health Survey for Nigeria was conducted in 2003 and consulted over 10 000 people, aged 15 – 64.
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  Overview of the impact and best practice responses in favour of children in a world affected by HIV/AIDS

  UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2002

  This first chapter from the overall study ‘AIDS, public policy and child well-being’ offers an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and desirable policy responses.
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  Unsafe schools: a literature review of school-related gender-based violence in developing countries

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  In an attempt to counter the lack of systemic information on the prevalence and consequences of violence in formal educational settings, this report reviews a number of country-specific studies on school-related gender-based violence.