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Zimbabwean stories of best practice in mitigating the HIV crisis through a cultural and gender perspective : challenging gender dynamics in a cultural context to address HIV

PRICE, Leigh
MAMIMINE, Patrick
CHINGANDU, Lois
March 2009

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This is a collection of best practice stories from six community-based organisations in Zimbabwe that have implemented innovative strategies and approaches in gender programming through a culture lens. The stories show how the organisations have been successful in promoting gender equality in the face of traditional practices, which relegate women in Africa to subordinate status and roles. They are about their struggles of trying to change the deep-seated traditional and cultural ideologies in a respectful and participatory way and the challenges faced by men and women from the communities who have taken the lead to bring about changes even when confronted with resistance from peers and elders, and important lessons about how to do things better

Mainstreaming HIV, AIDS and gender into culture|A community education handbook : part 1

WALLACE-KARENGA, Katrina
March 2009

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This resource is designed to encourage communities to consider how they behave together and cope with HIV. It has been written to support and encourage discussion, which, It is hoped, will lead to a better understanding of how culture and cultural practices can affect the spread of HIV. The aim is to motivate individual people and communities to begin to identify for themselves the things they do that increase and decrease the risk of HIV transmission

Mainstreaming HIV, AIDS and gender into culture|A community education handbook : part 2

WALLACE-KARENGA, Katrina
March 2009

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This second part of the handbook looks specifically at how culture, gender and HIV are connected. Studies undertaken in sub-Saharan Africa make it clear that certain cultural practices, together with the low status and economic power of women increase women and girl's vulnerability to HIV. It is a resource for community-based volunteers working with communities to mainstream HIV and gender through culture

Children to the fore! : an easy-to-use training handbook that promotes child rights and cultural issues in the face of HIV in southern Africa

STALLY, Aulora
AZEVEDO-BASCHDORF, Delfina
March 2009

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This handbook aims to get children's rights known, recognised and respected in communities, particularly where they might be compromised by traditional and cultural practices, and where their realisation is threatened by the HIV and AIDS epidemic. It provides methods for upholding positive cultural practices,as well as opportunities to revisit harmful cultural ways. It aims to develop positive approaches to sensitive issues within the community,such as child abuse and discrimination against young girls

We miss you all. Noerine Kaleeba : AIDS in the family

KALEEBA, Noerine
RAY, Sunanda
2002

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An updated version of the 1991 book. It tells the story of Noerine Kaleeba, one of the founders of the The AIDS Support Organisation in Uganda, whose husband died of AIDS. The book includes testimonies from Noerine's daughters about their father's death and their mother's 'going public'. It also tackles emerging issues such as access to antiretroviral drugs

Q A brief

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Shares with the international health community, the methodologies, activities, and findings of quality assurance initiatives in developing countries.
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