For decades, curriculum-based sexuality education has been a cornerstone of school- and community-based efforts to improve young people’s sexual and reproductive health, and more recently to prevent HIV infection. Unfortunately, public discourse about sex education has been mired in polarizing debates that distract attention from determining how sex and HIV education programs might best achieve the shared goals of many different constituencies.This research brief answers some key questions relating to HIV education with young people.
Submitted by sally_jean.shac... on Tue, 27/07/2010 - 18:18
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HIV InSite is a project of the UCSF Center for HIV Information. Copyright 2010, Regents of the University of California.
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http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/
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HIV InSite
Published Date:
2005
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If you needed some tips and information on how to deal with HIV and sex and sexualities, then this publication will be useful to you. The online publication includes information on safer sex, disclosure, birth control and HIV as well as resources. Use it yourself, print it out and pass it on to women you know, or use it as a reference guide for your work with HIV positive women.
Empowering women could more effectively help in curbing the spread of HIV, Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and philanthropist said at the AIDS conference in Vienna on Monday. Speaking to reporters at the 18th International AIDS conference, he cited the example of Avahan, a national HIV prevention programme in India supported by the Gates Foundation co-founded by him. The active participation of women, he said, has worked successfully in slowing the spread of the virus among India's high risk population.
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA and VIENNA, AUSTRIA (July 20, 2010) — UKZN researchers have achieved an important scientific breakthrough in the fight against HIV and genital herpes with a vaginal gel that significantly reduces a woman’s risk of being infected with these viruses. The results of the groundbreaking safety and effectiveness study of an antiretroviral microbicide gel study were reported today by the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria.
Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Thu, 14/05/2009 - 11:54
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IPS News
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http://www.ipsnews.net/
Author:
Valeria Vilardo
Published Date:
2009
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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) reported that women now make up half of the population living with HIV in the Caribbean, compared to just 30 percent of the total in 1999. But among the 15-24 age group, women represent 62 percent of those living with HIV.
Submitted by Keba.sebetoane on Wed, 14/01/2009 - 10:12
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Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
Published Date:
2009
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Every two or three days a person is killed in Brazil in violence connected with his or her sexuality, according to Brazil's oldest gay rights association, Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB). In Mexico, the reported figure is nearly two a week.
Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Tue, 13/01/2009 - 13:58
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Irin Plus News
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http://www.plusnews.org/
Published Date:
2009
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When Mary Muli and her husband failed to conceive a child, they followed the long-held tradition among the Kemba in Kenya's Eastern Province and brought another woman into their home to bear children for them.
The latest UNAIDS Report estimated that 33 million people around the globe are living with HIV; 22 million in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. Around 2.7 million new HIV infections occurred worldwide in 2007. However, encouraging new data suggests there have been significant gains in preventing new infections in several African countries with high prevalence rates.
More and more people are getting infected with HIV/AIDS in Malaysia. The Ministry of Health has indicated that the number of HIV/AIDS infected people has risen drastically since the first reported case in 1986.
Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 09:40
Publisher:
Centre for Women's Global Leadership
Publisher / Organization Main page URL:
http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/
Author:
Cynthia Rothschild, Mary Anne Reilly and Sara A. Nordstrom
Published Date:
2006
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Strengthening Resistance focuses on the points of intersection in the social, political and public health crises of violence against women and HIV/AIDS. The report uses a human rights lens to focus on critical political challenges and on innovative strategies used by activists worldwide as they respond to the links between violence and HIV/AIDS. From street theater to telenovelas/soap operas to traditional lobbying, activists in both VAW and HIV/AIDS communities are beginning to work together to focus attention to ways both crises are causes and consequences of each other. Neither can be addressed adequately without taking into account the links between them and the human rights implications of each crisis on its own, and in conjunction with the other.
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