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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

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