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    Frozen in Success - Gay Activists Fear Czechs are Becoming Too Content with Past Achievements

    Transitions Online, 2008
    The 1st July 2008 marked the Czech Republic's two year anniversary of the passing of the same-sex partnerships law, a landmark achievement arising after years of political struggle and one that set the country apart from its Central European neighbours. By the end of 2007, 487 same-sex couples had entered a legal union.
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    Careful Interventions: Masculinity and the Condom Crisis

    BRIDGE, 2007
    Do prevailing ideas about how 'real men' should behave undermine effective condom use? This paper argues that expectations of how 'real' men must behave - particularly the pressure to be sexually potent and experienced - can undermine effective condom use.
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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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    Gender and Sexuality: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    Mobilising around sexuality is not new. Activists and practitioners have long been working on issues such as HIV/AIDS; sexual violence; abortion; sex work; and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. What is new is the integrated, affirmative approach to sexuality which is increasingly being adopted.
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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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    Pakistan Enhanced HIV/AIDS Program: Social assessment and mapping of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Lahore, Pakistan

    Naz Foundation International, 2002
    Expressions of affection between people of the same sex are easily accepted in Pakistan but in contrast, women's contact with men is controlled and socially policed. Many men have sexual relations with each other, and finding male sexual partners is easy.
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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.
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    Between men: HIV/STI prevention for men who have sex with men

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2003
    Sex between men is one of the primary ways in which HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are passed on. Yet official indifference or hostility means that there are few prevention and care programmes for men who have sex with men in developing countries.
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    Meeting the sexual health needs of men who have sex with men in Senegal

    Horizons, 2002
    This study explores the health situation and needs of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Senegal. Many MSM identify as either 'Ibis', who act feminine and are less dominant in sexual encounters, or 'Yoos', who are generally the dominant penetrative partner during sex and who do not consider themselves to be homosexuals.
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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.