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Title Gender and health : policy and practice : a global sourcebook / Anke van der Kwaak and Madeleen Wegelin-Schuringa, guest editors
Published Amsterdam : KIT (Royal Tropical Institute) ; Oxford : Oxfam GB, 2006

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Description 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Critical reviews and annotated bibliographies series, 1382-4686
Gender, society & development ; 9
Critical reviews and annotated bibliographies series. 1382-4686
Gender, society & development ; 9
Contents Introduction: gender and health / Anke van der Kwaak and Jashodhara Dasgupta -- 1. Engendering communicable disease policy and practice: experiences from Malawi / Bertha Simwaka Nhlema ... [et al.] -- 2. Tackling tradition: examining successful strategies in the mitigation of female genital mutilation in Ethiopian communities / Sehin Teferra -- 3. Reaching young people on health and reproductive and sexual rights: the Argentinian experience / Mabel Bianco -- 4. Men, gender equity and HIV/AIDS prevention, with case studies from South Africa and Brazil / Miriam Zoll -- 5. Local responses to HIV/AIDS from a gender perspective / Madeleen Wegelin-Schuringa -- 6. 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
Bibliography Includes annotated bibliographical references (pages 111-163) and index
Subject 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.
Author Kwaak, Anke van der.
Wegelin-Schuringa, Madeleen.
ISBN 9780855985714
0855985712
9068327348