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The manual, designed for conducting a workshop on gender, health, and development, incorporates a number of different training methods and approaches. It caters to adult learners' needs to participate actively in the process of acquiring skills, rather than learning them in a static atmosphere. Seven modules under the overarching topic of gender, health and development are present in the manual.
This resource pack aims to help policy makers and service providers develop a gender-based approach to their work on HIV/AIDS and STDs. The book describes what this means, why it is important and how it may be achieved. The text is illustrated with personal stories and examples from programmes around the world. The tool cards and posters are designed as guides for practical activities to promote gender awareness as well as attitude and behavior…
This report discusses the gender dimensions of the impact of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on Uganda and some reference to Malawi. The primary focus of this report is the heterosexual transmission of HIV and its prevention, raising issues of gender and sexuality. The report provides an overview of the social epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Uganda and Malawi, discusses gender issues in vulnerability to HIV infection,…
This report consists of six sections and provides an overview of the gender implications of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South East Asia and the South Pacific, and a review of HIV/AIDS prevention and control strategies in these regions, with particular reference to gender issues in their design and implementation. The issues involved are complex and there is considerable diversity of situations among countries. Hence, this document draws out broad…
This paper argues that sexual, and male violent, practices are rooted in and flow from cultural ideals of gender identities. The latter enables us to understand why men and women behave as they do, and the emotional and material context within which sexual behaviours are enacted. In South Africa, while gender identities show diversity, the dominant ideal of black African manhood emphasizes toughness, strength and expression of prodigious sexual…
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Pact Viet Nam is pleased to announce a Request for Applications (RFA) for a program entitled "Changing sexual norms among young men in Viet Nam: a media and peer outreach approach." Up to 3 million USD will be provided over a three-year period in order to enhance and expand a national media campaign and accompanying community outreach interventions, with the objective of changing male sexual norms and reducing use of sex workers among…