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HIV/AIDS- related stigma and discrimination: a conceptual framework and an agenda for action

PARKER, Richard
et al
2002

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This paper argues the need for a new way of thinking about stigma and discrimination that acknowledges the processes that cause it and addresses them. It suggests a conceptual framework in which stigma and discrimination are seen as social processes designed to produce and reproduce inequalities and maintain social control, rather than as individual actions. It argues that under this framework there is a need for new approaches to research and for programme developments and interventions that engage societies, communities and people who experience stigma and discrimination, while also acknowledging that this needs to be accompanied by laws and policies that protect the rights of people living with HIV and those affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic

Are we not peasants too? Land rights and women's claims in India

AGARWAL, Bina
2002

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Explores the barriers and challenges to securing effective, enforceable land rights for women -- even in countries with progressive social movements and the appropriate legal reforms, such as India. Shows how this issue is central to improving rural women's economic status. Presents a range of strategies (eg re-directing micro-credit) to tackle these problems, and closes with a summary of how women are organising around this issue

HIV voluntary counseling and testing among youth ages 14 to 21: results from an exploratory study in Nairobi, Kenya, and Kampala and Masaka, Uganda

HORIZONS PROGRAM
KENYA PROJECT PARTNERS
UGANDA PROJECT PARTNERS
October 2001

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This is the report of exploratory research to identify the opportunities for and barriers to providing HIV voluntary counselling and testing for youth. The first phase of the study, completed in May 2000, indicates that youth would like access to HIV testing and counselling services if the services are confidential and inexpensive and if the results are reported honestly

Making a difference for children affected by AIDS : baseline findings from operations research in Uganda

GILBORN, Laelia Zoe
et al
June 2001

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This paper reports on baseline findings from a study of two programmes for AIDS-affected children and their families implemented by PLAN International in the Luwero and Tororo districts of Uganda. One programme, referred to as orphan support, provides educational, health, and nutritional assistance as well as other services to orphans. The second programme, known as succession planning, reaches AIDS-affected children earlier, by helping HIV-positive parents prepare for their children’s future through counseling, will-writing, appointing guardians, and other measures. The study was designed to assess the impact of the orphan support programme on child wellbeing; explore the acceptability of a succession planning programme in the Ugandan context; assess the impact of succession planning on child wellbeing; and determine the impact of succession planning on adult wellbeing and on guardians' capacity to care for orphans

The female condom : dynamics of use in urban Zimbabwe

KERRIGAN, Deanna
et al
October 2000

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This is the report of a study to increase public understanding of the patterns and dynamics of female condom use in Zimbabwe in order to help the country's policymakers and programme planners make decisions about promotion and distribution of the female condom

Globalization and health

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Globalization and Health is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal. It encompasses all aspects of globalization and its effects on public health. Globalization in the journal will refer to economic, political, social and technological processes, which transcend the geopolitical boundaries of the nation-state and have resulted in increased interconnectedness of the world. The journal examines market liberalization, the changing role of nation-state, supra-national structures, poverty and equality, the changing distribution of communicable and non-communicable diseases and the risk factors associated with these diseases, and the growing awareness of our collective responsibility for one another. Global warming, global governance, global public goods for health, equity and justice and a host of related topics are emerging as priorities and illustrate the need for interdisciplinary thinking and debate
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