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  Visions, voices and priorities of young people living with and most affected by HIV

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2015

  This report shares perspectives and insights from young people from around the world living with and affected by HIV, who share their visions for realising and claiming their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and for setting priorities for HIV and SRHR integration.
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  MSM Country Snapshot Series: BANGLADESH

  2012

  Bangladesh is considered a low-prevalence country with 2,533 cumulative reported cases since 1989 and approximately 7,500 people living with HIV.  Routine surveillance has consistently reported HIV prevalence of less than 1.0 percent among the general population and among MSM and male and female sex workers.
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  ‘Our lives matter: sex workers unite for health and rights’

  Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2008

  This report highlights the creative ways in which sex workers in eight countries have organised to defend their human rights and health. The groups featured in this report include:
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  Growing older in Africa and Asia: Multicentre study on ageing, health and well-being. Global health Action journal, supplement 2

  Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010

  Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). Article titles include:
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  How to end child marriage: action strategies for prevention and protection

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007

  Girls who marry as children (younger than 18 years of age) are often more susceptible to the health risks associated with early sexual initiation and childbearing, including HIV and obstetric fistula. Lacking status and power, these girls are often subjected to domestic violence, sexual abuse and social isolation.
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  Children affected by HIV/AIDS in South Asia: a synthesis of current global, regional and national thinking and research

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2007

  The report concludes that around ten million children are affected by HIV and AIDS in South Asia, and their prospects are bleak unless they get access to antiretroviral treatment.
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  From the front line: the impact of social, legal and judicial impediments to sexual health promotion, and HIV and AIDS related care and support for males who have sex with males in Bangladesh and India

  Naz Foundation International, 2005

  This study from the Naz Foundation International (NFI) reports on the high levels of sexual violence, marginalisation and stigma experienced by males who have sex with males (MSM) in India and Bangladesh. The report finds that the primary cause of this violence is cultural gender norms rather than sexual identity, since those MSM who identify as Kothi (feminine men) are most at risk.
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  Community involvement in youth reproductive health and HIV prevention

  Family Health International, 2007

  Are reproductive health and HIV prevention outcomes for young people better when a project makes an explicit effort to involve community members? This briefing paper summarises the findings of a range of studies that have sought to investigate this question.
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  Vulnerability to HIV infection among sex worker and non-sex worker female injecting drug users in Dhaka, Bangladesh: evidence from the baseline survey of a cohort study

  Harm Reduction Journal, 2007

  This study, published in the Journal of Harm Reduction, examines the risks and vulnerability to HIV of female injecting drug users (IDU) in Bangladesh. The study looked at 130 female IDUs, of which 82 were sex workers, in three cities in the Dhaka region. Findings show that none had HIV but more sex workers had lifetime syphilis than non-sex workers.
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  AIDS and vulnerability: reflections on “long wave” shocks

  Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide, 2005

  This background note, for a UNAIDS workshop on AIDS and Vulnerability, considers the research and policy implications and challenges of treating AIDS as a long wave shock. The paper specifically explores: the methodological challenges of studying long wave shocks; the distinctiveness of AIDS; and the policy implications of a focus on long term vulnerabilities.

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