Recently added articles from Research Bulletin:
Time to deliver on gender and HIV/AIDS.
Sep 22, 2006; ... This summer, more than 25,000 people from around the world gathered in Toronto to share new knowledge, experiences, and good practices in the worldwide battle against HIV/AIDS. The International AIDS Society chose "Time to Deliver" as the conference's theme, arguing that we already have ...
An invisible epidemic: the implications of gender neutrality for managing HIV/AIDS in low-incidence countries.
Sep 22, 2006; ... As the HIV/AIDS epidemic has grown and changed in the past fifteen years, the international community has focused increasingly on regions hardest hit by the pandemic--sub-Saharan Africa in particular. International agencies, funders and researchers, corporations, national and local ...
Telling a new story about risk: gender, breastfeeding, and broadening the questions on child survival.
Sep 22, 2006; ... Stephen Lewis called breastfeeding "the excruciating dimension of HIV transmission," (1) and it was partly these words that inspired a conference at York University on "Gender, Child Survival, and HIV/AIDS: From Evidence to Policy" in May 2006. The issue of HIV transmission through breast ...
Sexual violence and dislocation in women's acquisition of HIV in Manitoba.
Sep 22, 2006; ... Although the links between social inequality and HIV infection are well documented, (1) few prevention programs have attempted to create change on a societal level. (2) A recent study in Manitoba affirms, however, the need for policies and programs aimed at reducing social inequalities in ...
Annotated bibliography of aboriginal women's health and healing research--2nd edition.(UNDERSTANDING THE EPIDEMIC)
Sep 22, 2006 ... The Aboriginal Women's Health and Healing Research Group (AWHHRG) is releasing a second annotated bibliography of Aboriginal women's health research this fall. This edition extends the 2005 overview by including detailed quantitative information by region, group (First Nation, Inuit, ...
From recognition to action: gender-based analysis and mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS.
Sep 22, 2006; ... Changing trends in the global HIV/AIDS pandemic underscore the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV infection, a vulnerability that is both biological and social. In other words, women and girls are at greater risk of exposure to HIV because their bodies are different than those of ...
Making space for young heterosexual males: gender and HIV/AIDS prevention education.
Sep 22, 2006; ... Healthy sexuality initiatives for young adults, including those aimed at HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention, have been in place for decades. (1) However, the majority of these initiatives were designed for and directed toward young heterosexual females and gay ...
Give it to me now: sexual health information and services for older youth in British Columbia.(RESPONDING TO THE EPIDEMIC)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Sexual health is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being related to sexuality ... Sexual health requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships, as well as the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of ...
Gender matters: understanding the emotional and social support needs of women with HIV/AIDS.
Sep 22, 2006; ... Researchers at the University of Toronto and York University, in partnership with the National Network on Environments and Women's Health (NNEWH), are currently interviewing women with HIV/AIDS in Toronto in the first phase of a study to understand more about women's emotional and social ...
Gender and the costs of palliative caregiving for people with HIV/AIDS.
Sep 22, 2006; ... According to a 1994 Angus Reid report, 84 percent of all Canadians surveyed indicated a preference to spend their final days at home with their family. (1) This demand, coupled with demographic changes and progressive movements concerned with holistic care for patients, has necessitated ...
Viruses of inequality: women's health and human rights.
Sep 22, 2006; ... The University of Victoria International Women's Rights Project (IWRP) has recently completed an analysis of HIV/AIDS as the "virus of inequality" in Southern Africa. We found that this virus is directly linked to issues of democratic reform and post-conflict renewal. The British Columbia ...