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The Sexual and Reproductive Health of Younger Adolescents: Research Issues in Developing Countries
This publication reviews quantitative and qualitative evidence on adolescents' sexual and reproductive health from a number of developing countries and, where possible, highlights findings for boys and girls aged under 15 years in those studies. The review is organized around six interwoven processes that mark girls' and boys' passage through adolescence, with an emphasis on the early years. The concluding section brings together a number of research topics and approaches that could form the basis of a coordinated multicountry research agenda for young adolescents' sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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Speaking Out
Speaking Out: A Toolkit for MSM-Led HIV and AIDS Advocacy
Speaking Out is an advocacy toolkit created to address the urgent need for men who have sex with men (MSM) everywhere to engage in advocacy locally, nationally, and globally to end the HIV epidemic and promote their human rights. The toolkit equips individuals and organizations with tools and techniques that enable them to become advocates right now, whoever and wherever they happen to be.
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Opportunity in Crisis
Opportunity in Crisis: Preventing HIV From Early Adolescence to Early Adulthood
This report, published by UNICEF with UNAIDS, UNESCO, UNFPA, ILO, WHO and the World Bank, describes the state of the epidemic in young people, the evidence for effective responses that address behavioural, social and structural challenges and prevent new HIV infections in young people.
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Health Rights and Gender Equality in Health Sector Strategies
Human Rights And Gender Equality In Health Sector Strategies: How To Assess Policy Coherence
This tool, developed in collaboration between WHO, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), is designed to support countries to strengthen national health strategies by applying human rights and gender equality commitments and obligations. It poses critical questions to identify gaps and opportunities in the review or reform of health sector strategies. Analysis tables include critical questions rooted in international human rights and gender equality principles to trace country commitments and obligations
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Contraceptive Technologies: Responding to Women's Needs

This report, produced by the Guttmacher Institute, focuses on the three regions that together account for the majority of women in the developing world with an unmet need for contraception. The findings suggest that substantially bringing down unintended pregnancy rates in these developing regions will require increased investment in the development of new methods that better address women's concerns and life circumstances.
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What's Faith Got To Do With It? A Global Multifaith Discussion On HIV Responses
This collection of essays include responses from different faiths responding to HIV and engaging in discussions related to sex, sexuality and gender.
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HIV, Health And The Law
This paper, prepared by the Commonwealth HIV & AIDS Action Group and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, aims is to increase understanding of the legal frameworks that undermine the ability of countries to respond effectively to HIV.
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Unequal in Exile: Gender Equality, Sexual Identity and Refugee Status
'Gender equality' has become a mantra of the international humanitarian community. Organisations from United Nations entities to non-governmental and civil society groups are tasked with promoting gender equality in their policies and programmes. The rhetoric and guidance developed, however, continue to exclude gender in its broadest sense, for the dialogue, inclusive of LGBT persons.