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Sound and Fury—engaging with the politics and the law of sexual rights

Posted on November 1, 2015August 21, 2018

Although past resistance to sexual rights in global debates has often been grounded in claims to culture, nation and religion, opposition voices are now using, rather than rejecting, the frame of international human rights. T... read more →

HIV and gender-based violence: welcome policies and programmes, but is the research keeping up?

Posted on November 1, 2014August 21, 2018

The global HIV policy arena has seen a surge of interest in gender-related dimensions of vulnerability to HIV and violence. UNAIDS and other prominent actors have named gender-based violence a key priority, and there seems to... read more →

Pregnancy decisions of women living with HIV: the need for multidisciplinary perspectives

Posted on December 1, 2012August 21, 2018

Women living with HIV, like all women, have the right to determine the number and spacing of their children. With the ultimate goal of ensuring that women living with HIV are at the center of decision-making about their sexua... read more →

Sexual and reproductive health and rights in public health education

Posted on November 1, 2011August 21, 2018

This paper addresses the challenges faced in mainstreaming the teaching of sexual and reproductive health and rights into public health education. For this paper, we define sexual and reproductive health and rights education ... read more →

Government regulation of sex and sexuality: in their own words

Posted on November 1, 2009August 21, 2018

Criminalisation is but one of the tools employed by governments to regulate sex and sexuality. Other types of regulation can equally have an impact on health and well-being and thus merit consideration. While restrictive laws... read more →