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Gender and HIV/AIDS: Selected Resources

The IGWG Gender and HIV Taskforce, as part of its mandate to document efforts to address gender and HIV within the USAID community, has compiled a CD-ROM with over 25 selected reference documents that offer state-of-the-art guidance in key technical areas.

[Out of print]

The documents included in the CD-ROM are

General Overview

  • HIV/AIDS: An Inherent Gender Issue (Commonwealth Secretariat and UNIFEM, 2001).
  • Gender, Sexuality, and HIV/AIDS: The What, the Why, and the How (paper presented by Geeta Rao Gupta at the XIIth International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, ICRW, 2000).
  • Power in Sexual Relationships: An Opening Dialogue Among Reproductive Health Professionals (Population Council, 2001).
  • Gender and HIV/AIDS—UNAIDS Technical Update (UNAIDS Best Practice Collection, 1998).
  • Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic (UNIFEM, 2001).
  • Gender and HIV/AIDS: Taking Stock of Research and Programmes (UNAIDS Best Practice Collection, 1999).
  • HIV/AIDS: Reproductive Rights on the Line (Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, June 2000).

Male Involvement

  • Training Introduction to Men's Reproductive Health Services (EngenderHealth, working draft, 2002).
  • Gender-Equitable Boys in a Gender-Inequitable World: Reflections From Qualitative Research and Programme Development in Rio de Janeiro (Gary Barker, Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 2000).
  • Partnering: A New Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health (United Nations Population Fund, 2000).
  • Educating Men in South Africa on Gender Issues (Andrew Levack, SIECUS Report 29, June/July 2001).

Youth

  • Making It Work: Linking Youth, Reproductive Health, and Livelihoods (ICRW, 2001).
  • Youth, Enterprise, Livelihoods and Reproductive Health: How Can Small Enterprise and Sustainable Livelihoods Help Address the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Africa—Planning ands Assessment Tools for Practitioners and Donors (International Development Research Centre, 2000).
  • Cross Generational and Transactional Sexual Relations in sub-Saharan Africa (ICRW and AIDSMARK, 2002).
  • Gender or Sex: Who Cares? Skills Building Resource Pack on Gender and Reproductive Health for Adolescents and Youth Workers With a Special Emphasis on Violence, HIV/STIs Unwanted Pregnancy, and Unsafe Abortion (Ipas, 2001).

Voluntary Counseling and Testing, and Gender-Based Violence

  • HIV and Partner Violence: Implications for Voluntary Counseling and Testing Programs in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Horizons Report, The Population Council, 2001).
  • HIV and Partner Violence: What Are the Implications for Voluntary Testing and Counseling? Horizons Project, The Population Council, 2001).
  • Violence, Vengeance, and Gender: A Preliminary Investigation Into the Links Between Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS in South Africa (South Africa Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, 2001).

Integration

  • How Gender-Sensitive Are Your HIV and Family Planning Services? (International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2002).
  • Integration of HIV/STI Prevention, Sexuality, and Dual Protection in Family Planning Counseling: A Training Manual (EngenderHealth, working draft, 2002).

Parent-to-Child Transmission

  • Women, Communities, and the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV: Issues and Findings From Community Research in Botswana and Zambia (ICRW, 2000).
  • Community Involvement in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV: Insights and Recommendations (Naomi Rutenberg, Population Council, and Mary Lyn Field-Nguer and Laura Nyblade, ICRW, 2001).

Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health of Women

  • Positive Women: Voices and Choices—Zimbabwe Report (International Community of Women Living With HIV/AIDS, 2002).

Skills Building and Educational Materials

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Briefing Cards (Family Care International, 2000).
  • A Transformation Process: Gender Training for Top-Level Management of HIV/AIDS Prevention (AIDSCAP Women's Initiative, Family Health International, 1997).
  • Facing the Challenges of HIV/AIDS and STDs: a Gender-Based Response (UNAIDS, 1998).
  • Gender, HIV, and Human Rights: A Training Manual (UNIFEM, UNFPA, and UNAIDS, 2000).