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    BRIDGE Bibliography 18: Women and girls living with HIV/AIDS: overview and annotated bibliography

    BRIDGE, 2007
    HIV/AIDS is both driven by and entrenches gender inequality, leaving women more vulnerable than men to its impact. This report - consisting of an overview, annotated bibliography, and contacts section - considers the specific challenges faced by women and girls who are living with HIV and AIDS.
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    Sex, Life and the Female Condom: Some Views of HIV Positive Women

    Reproductive Health Matters, 2006
    This paper offers insights into the experiences of HIV positive women with the female condom, drawing on the responses of 18 ICW members to an email survey conducted in 2005. Major reported barriers to female condom use included cost and sporadic or limited access. All respondents talked about needing to negotiate the use of female condoms with their male sex partners.
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    Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of People Living with HIV

    Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2006
    As the prospects for people living with HIV have improved worldwide, AIDS activists and the global public health community have increased their focus on quality-of-life issues as well as length-of-life issues. Regardless of HIV status, the ability to express one's sexuality and the desire to experience parenthood are, for many, central to what it means to be human.
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    Sex Work Toolkit

    World Health Organization, 2004
    In many parts of the world, sex workers have been among the groups most vulnerable to and most affected by HIV since the beginning of the AIDS pandemic. This online toolkit is aimed at helping sex workers to protect themselves and their clients from infection by HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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    Programme planning materials and training resources: a compendium

    United Nations Population Fund, 2004
    This compendium of materials is intended as a tool for programme planners and health workers interested in improving their youth-focused HIV prevention programmes. Documents summarised in the compendium are drawn from a variety of organisations and institutions, and address global issues, rather than region-specific topics.
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    Cause for Great Concern: The Status of Reproductive Health in Peru

    Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2003
    Despite important advances in the last 40 years, are women's sexual and reproductive health rights being threatened? This newsletter, written by the Director of the San Mart¡n de Porres University Medical Clinic in Lima, Peru, highlights the ways women's sexual and reproductive rights are being undermined by the Peruvian government of Alejandro Toledo, who came to power in 2001.