Gender and health : policy and practice : a global sourcebook / Anke van der Kwaak and Madeleen Wegelin-Schuringa, guest editors.
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TextSeries: Critical reviews and annotated bibliographies series | Gender, society & development ; 9.Publication details: Amsterdam : KIT (Royal Tropical Institute) ; Oxford : Oxfam GB, 2006.Description: 184 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0855985712 (Oxfam pbk.)
- 9780855985714 (Oxfam pbk.)
- 9068327348 (KIT pbk.)
- 9789068327342 (KIT pbk.)
- Sexual health -- Social aspects -- Developing countries
- Reproductive health -- Social aspects -- Developing countries
- Sex role -- Developing countries
- Women -- Health and hygiene -- Social aspects -- Developing countries
- Men -- Health and hygiene -- Social aspects -- Developing countries
- Sex discrimination
- Sex factors in disease -- Social aspects -- Developing countries
- Discrimination in medical care -- Developing countries
- Medical policy -- Developing countries
- 305.3
- RA788 .G46 2006
Includes annotated bibliographical references (p. 111-163) and index.
Introduction: gender and health / Anke van der Kwaak and Jashodhara Dasgupta -- Engendering communicable disease policy and practice: experiences from Malawi / Bertha Simwaka Nhlema ... [et al.] --Tackling tradition: examining successful strategies in the mitigation of female genital mutilation in Ethiopian communities / Sehin Teferra -- Reaching young people on health and reproductive and sexual rights: the Argentinian experience / Mabel Bianco -- Men, gender equity and HIV/AIDS prevention, with case studies from South Africa and Brazil / Miriam Zoll -- Local responses to HIV/AIDS from a gender perspective / Madeleen Wegelin-Schuringa -- Stigma, discrimination and violence amongst female sex workers and men who have sex with men in Andhra Pradesh, India / Fiona Samuels, Ravi K. Verma and C.K. George.
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