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A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

01/03/2006

12 pages long

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A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

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Overview

HIV/AIDS can no longer be viewed as a pandemic. It is in fact emerging as multiple epidemics. These epidemics vary from country to country, region to region and continent to continent. As a body of knowledge develops on HIV/AIDS and responses to it in sub-Saharan Africa, care is necessary when considering the experience of HIV/AIDS […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

01/03/2007

13 pages long

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Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

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Overview

Violence against children is a global phenomenon. During humanitarian crises, and armed conflict in particular, the potential for gender-based violence (GBV), including sexual exploitation, increases. Children, particularly adolescent girls, are vulnerable. This article traces the impact of an exposé of sexual abuse by humanitarian workers on the wider protection policies and practices of Save the […]

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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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Overview

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. […]

Journal article

Embracing the rights of people in prostitution and sex workers to address HIV and AIDS effectively

01/07/2008

13 pages long

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Embracing the rights of people in prostitution and sex workers to address HIV and AIDS effectively

Keywords

Overview

As the world’s HIV crisis grows, strategies continue to focus on containing the pandemic within high-risk populations. Is there a more effective way of engaging and approaching marginalised populations to help combat the global pandemic than the strategies pursued to date? If so, what would such an approach look like? This article will analyse the […]

Journal article

The Health Status of Cambodia’s Elderly in a Context of Gendered Violence

01/11/2009

13 pages long

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The Health Status of Cambodia’s Elderly in a Context of Gendered Violence

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Overview

This article uses Cambodia’s 2005 Demographic and Health Survey to explore differences in health status and health care access among elderly women and men, in the historical context of gendered violence during the Khmer Rouge regime. Results point to small disadvantages for women in becoming sick and seeking treatment, which are explained by their relatively […]

Journal article

Transforming gender in homestead food production

03/11/2010

14 pages long

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Transforming gender in homestead food production

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Overview

In Bangladesh, Helen Keller International (HKI) is known for its homestead food production (HFP) programme, which promotes small-scale agriculture among women, specifically to improve women’s and children’s nutrition outcomes, including dietary diversity and knowledge of maternal self-care and infant-young child feeding practices. To achieve these aims, the programme focuses on women’s empowerment. This article presents […]

Journal article

Agricultural livelihoods and nutrition – exploring the links with women in Zambia

02/11/2010

23 pages long

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Agricultural livelihoods and nutrition – exploring the links with women in Zambia

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Overview

This article examines food security, nutrition, and women’s agricultural livelihoods in Western Province, Zambia. It draws on data from field research supported by Concern Worldwide UK. The research aimed to explore links between food procurement, livelihoods and care at the household level, and recognises the role of institutions and access to assets in shaping livelihood […]

Journal article

Protecting migrant domestic workers in the UK

01/03/2011

10 pages long

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Protecting migrant domestic workers in the UK

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Overview

Each year, some 20,000 foreign domestic workers come to the UK to undertake work within a private household, ranging from housekeeping to childcare. Though domestic work is often seen as a route out of poverty, with domestic workers sending remittances back to families in their country of origin, structural barriers relating to migration and labour […]

Case study

Supporting Irrigation for Food Security in Malawi

15/06/2011

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Malawi is a country of small-scale producers farming tiny plots of land. Traditionally, they grow maize and other crops using rainwater. But as climate change intensifies, rains in Malawi are becoming erratic and less predictable. Malawi has abundant freshwater resources. Thirteen perennial rivers and three lakes cover almost 20 per cent of the area of […]

Book

Gender Equality, HIV and AIDS: Challenges for the Education Sector

01/12/2008

1 documents

200 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The book shows that while gender inequalities in society generally, and particularly within the education sector, are driving aspects of the HIV epidemic, educational settings can be empowering and bring about change. It examines different expectations of what HIV education programmes and education settings can do to transform unequal gender relations and protect young people […]

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

01/03/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

Keywords

Overview

HIV/AIDS can no longer be viewed as a pandemic. It is in fact emerging as multiple epidemics. These epidemics vary from country to country, region to region and continent to continent. As a body of knowledge develops on HIV/AIDS and responses to it in sub-Saharan Africa, care is necessary when considering the experience of HIV/AIDS […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

01/03/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

Keywords

Overview

Violence against children is a global phenomenon. During humanitarian crises, and armed conflict in particular, the potential for gender-based violence (GBV), including sexual exploitation, increases. Children, particularly adolescent girls, are vulnerable. This article traces the impact of an exposé of sexual abuse by humanitarian workers on the wider protection policies and practices of Save the […]

Journal article

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

01/07/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

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

Keywords

Overview

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. […]

Journal article

Embracing the rights of people in prostitution and sex workers to address HIV and AIDS effectively

01/07/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Embracing the rights of people in prostitution and sex workers to address HIV and AIDS effectively

Keywords

Overview

As the world’s HIV crisis grows, strategies continue to focus on containing the pandemic within high-risk populations. Is there a more effective way of engaging and approaching marginalised populations to help combat the global pandemic than the strategies pursued to date? If so, what would such an approach look like? This article will analyse the […]

Journal article

The Health Status of Cambodia’s Elderly in a Context of Gendered Violence

01/11/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Health Status of Cambodia’s Elderly in a Context of Gendered Violence

Keywords

Overview

This article uses Cambodia’s 2005 Demographic and Health Survey to explore differences in health status and health care access among elderly women and men, in the historical context of gendered violence during the Khmer Rouge regime. Results point to small disadvantages for women in becoming sick and seeking treatment, which are explained by their relatively […]

Journal article

Transforming gender in homestead food production

03/11/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transforming gender in homestead food production

Keywords

Overview

In Bangladesh, Helen Keller International (HKI) is known for its homestead food production (HFP) programme, which promotes small-scale agriculture among women, specifically to improve women’s and children’s nutrition outcomes, including dietary diversity and knowledge of maternal self-care and infant-young child feeding practices. To achieve these aims, the programme focuses on women’s empowerment. This article presents […]

Journal article

Agricultural livelihoods and nutrition – exploring the links with women in Zambia

02/11/2010

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

Agricultural livelihoods and nutrition – exploring the links with women in Zambia

Keywords

Overview

This article examines food security, nutrition, and women’s agricultural livelihoods in Western Province, Zambia. It draws on data from field research supported by Concern Worldwide UK. The research aimed to explore links between food procurement, livelihoods and care at the household level, and recognises the role of institutions and access to assets in shaping livelihood […]

Journal article

Protecting migrant domestic workers in the UK

01/03/2011

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Protecting migrant domestic workers in the UK

Keywords

Overview

Each year, some 20,000 foreign domestic workers come to the UK to undertake work within a private household, ranging from housekeeping to childcare. Though domestic work is often seen as a route out of poverty, with domestic workers sending remittances back to families in their country of origin, structural barriers relating to migration and labour […]

Case study

Supporting Irrigation for Food Security in Malawi

15/06/2011

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Malawi is a country of small-scale producers farming tiny plots of land. Traditionally, they grow maize and other crops using rainwater. But as climate change intensifies, rains in Malawi are becoming erratic and less predictable. Malawi has abundant freshwater resources. Thirteen perennial rivers and three lakes cover almost 20 per cent of the area of […]

Book

Gender Equality, HIV and AIDS: Challenges for the Education Sector

01/12/2008

1 documents

200 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The book shows that while gender inequalities in society generally, and particularly within the education sector, are driving aspects of the HIV epidemic, educational settings can be empowering and bring about change. It examines different expectations of what HIV education programmes and education settings can do to transform unequal gender relations and protect young people […]

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

01/03/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

Keywords

Overview

HIV/AIDS can no longer be viewed as a pandemic. It is in fact emerging as multiple epidemics. These epidemics vary from country to country, region to region and continent to continent. As a body of knowledge develops on HIV/AIDS and responses to it in sub-Saharan Africa, care is necessary when considering the experience of HIV/AIDS […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

01/03/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

Keywords

Overview

Violence against children is a global phenomenon. During humanitarian crises, and armed conflict in particular, the potential for gender-based violence (GBV), including sexual exploitation, increases. Children, particularly adolescent girls, are vulnerable. This article traces the impact of an exposé of sexual abuse by humanitarian workers on the wider protection policies and practices of Save the […]

Journal article

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

01/07/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

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

Keywords

Overview

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. […]

Journal article

Embracing the rights of people in prostitution and sex workers to address HIV and AIDS effectively

01/07/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Embracing the rights of people in prostitution and sex workers to address HIV and AIDS effectively

Keywords

Overview

As the world’s HIV crisis grows, strategies continue to focus on containing the pandemic within high-risk populations. Is there a more effective way of engaging and approaching marginalised populations to help combat the global pandemic than the strategies pursued to date? If so, what would such an approach look like? This article will analyse the […]

Journal article

The Health Status of Cambodia’s Elderly in a Context of Gendered Violence

01/11/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Health Status of Cambodia’s Elderly in a Context of Gendered Violence

Keywords

Overview

This article uses Cambodia’s 2005 Demographic and Health Survey to explore differences in health status and health care access among elderly women and men, in the historical context of gendered violence during the Khmer Rouge regime. Results point to small disadvantages for women in becoming sick and seeking treatment, which are explained by their relatively […]

Journal article

Transforming gender in homestead food production

03/11/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transforming gender in homestead food production

Keywords

Overview

In Bangladesh, Helen Keller International (HKI) is known for its homestead food production (HFP) programme, which promotes small-scale agriculture among women, specifically to improve women’s and children’s nutrition outcomes, including dietary diversity and knowledge of maternal self-care and infant-young child feeding practices. To achieve these aims, the programme focuses on women’s empowerment. This article presents […]

Journal article

Agricultural livelihoods and nutrition – exploring the links with women in Zambia

02/11/2010

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

Agricultural livelihoods and nutrition – exploring the links with women in Zambia

Keywords

Overview

This article examines food security, nutrition, and women’s agricultural livelihoods in Western Province, Zambia. It draws on data from field research supported by Concern Worldwide UK. The research aimed to explore links between food procurement, livelihoods and care at the household level, and recognises the role of institutions and access to assets in shaping livelihood […]

Journal article

Protecting migrant domestic workers in the UK

01/03/2011

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Protecting migrant domestic workers in the UK

Keywords

Overview

Each year, some 20,000 foreign domestic workers come to the UK to undertake work within a private household, ranging from housekeeping to childcare. Though domestic work is often seen as a route out of poverty, with domestic workers sending remittances back to families in their country of origin, structural barriers relating to migration and labour […]

Case study

Supporting Irrigation for Food Security in Malawi

15/06/2011

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Malawi is a country of small-scale producers farming tiny plots of land. Traditionally, they grow maize and other crops using rainwater. But as climate change intensifies, rains in Malawi are becoming erratic and less predictable. Malawi has abundant freshwater resources. Thirteen perennial rivers and three lakes cover almost 20 per cent of the area of […]

Book

Gender Equality, HIV and AIDS: Challenges for the Education Sector

01/12/2008

1 documents

200 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The book shows that while gender inequalities in society generally, and particularly within the education sector, are driving aspects of the HIV epidemic, educational settings can be empowering and bring about change. It examines different expectations of what HIV education programmes and education settings can do to transform unequal gender relations and protect young people […]