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Introduction: Gender, development and health

23/03/2021

10 pages long

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Introduction: Gender, development and health

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This is the introductory article to Gender & Development issue 29(1) Health

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Experiences of abortion in Nepal and menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: a gender analysis

01/07/2008

15 pages long

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Experiences of abortion in Nepal and menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: a gender analysis

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The extent to which abortion and menstrual regulation services are safe, legal, and women-friendly is a strong proxy of gender equity. This article draws on women’s voices from Nepal and Bangladesh to illustrate that even where services are provided legally, women can still face multiple barriers to access to services, and problematic quality of care. […]

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A gender perspective on HIV treatment in Malawi: a multi-method approach

01/03/2006

11 pages long

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A gender perspective on HIV treatment in Malawi: a multi-method approach

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In this article, we use a synthesis of findings from four studies we have conducted to argue that gender issues influence people’s access to HIV testing and counselling services, as well as their access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) services. Gender issues also influence the costs, including opportunity costs, of using and adhering to HIV treatment. […]

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Teaching about gender, health, and communicable disease: experiences and challenges

01/07/2001

13 pages long

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Teaching about gender, health, and communicable disease: experiences and challenges

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This article looks at the challenges and opportunities we have encountered while teaching a short course on gender, health, and communicable disease. The course is aimed at health policy-makers, planners, and managers from national ministries, international and national health organisations, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). It ran for the first time in April 2000, with participants […]

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Employment and environmental hazard: women workers and strategies of resistance in Northern Thailand

01/10/1996

6 pages long

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Employment and environmental hazard: women workers and strategies of resistance in Northern Thailand

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This article explores women’s experience of employment within the electronics industry’s export processing zones (EPZs) of northern Thailand. Is the preference shown by many employers for women really ‘good for women’? Does the increasing feminisation of labour open up new opportunities for women, or is it simply exploitation? This article is hosted by our co-publisher […]

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Introduction: Gender, development and health

Experiences of abortion in Nepal and menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: a gender analysis

A gender perspective on HIV treatment in Malawi: a multi-method approach

Teaching about gender, health, and communicable disease: experiences and challenges

Employment and environmental hazard: women workers and strategies of resistance in Northern Thailand