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Report Technical Meeting on Hormonal Contraception in MPTs

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The Initiative for Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (IMPT) is a product neutral, global collaboration that advances the development of MPTs to address the interlinked risks of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV. Comprised of members from across disciplines and more than 15 countries, the IMPT is the central body that researchers, product developers, […]

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Comprehensive Sexual & Reproductive Health Prevention: The Promise of MPTs – Bethany Young Holt from IMPT

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Share-Net International is happy to share the powerpoint of the lunch presentation (BYO) by Dr. Bethany Young Holt, Director of the Initiative for Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (IMPT) on the 20th of April 2016 at KIT in Amsterdam.  This presention is about one of the fastest growing areas in women’s sexual and reproductive health – Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (MPTs)! MPTs are […]

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Digital privacy is a sexual health necessity: a community-engaged qualitative study of virtual sex work and digital autonomy in Senegal

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Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the harm reduction potential of virtual sex work (VSW) such as video or audio calls with clients. VSW limits exposure to COVID-19 and STIs. However, sex workers using digital technologies face high risks of technology-facilitated intimate partner violence (IPV), such as non-consensual distribution of intimate images. This study explored perceived […]

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Our Identities Under Arrest

The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) have released the second edition of Our Identities Under Arrest: A global overview on the enforcement of laws criminalising consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults and diverse gender expressions.  Arrests and prosecutions for consensual same-sex sexual acts, and on the grounds of diverse gender expressions, continued […]

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HIV Language Compendium to Protect Rights-Based Responses

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HIV civil society coalition the Love Alliance launched the first HIV/AIDS Language Compendium today at a satellite session of the International AIDS Conference hosted by the Dutch and Canadian governments and attended by officials from South Africa and Burkina Faso. The compendium has been praised as a useful tool for high-level United Nations negotiations and can be […]

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2021 Contraceptive Social Marketing Statistics

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For 30 years, DKT has collected sales data from contraceptive social marketing programs around the globe to publish the Contraceptive Social Marketing (CSM) Statistics report. The sales are primarily made to the private sector, consisting of clinics, supermarkets, mini-markets and a myriad of other kinds of shops. However, some programs also sell products to other […]

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COVID-19 and specific impact on LGBTI people

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COVID-19 and specific impact on LGBTI people and what authorities should be doing to mitigate impact COVID-19 is generating complex challenges and risks and while the virus does not discriminate, it is very clear that it hits marginalised communities in our societies disproportionally hard. In addition, social distancing and other prevention measures, as needed as […]

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Violence against women increased by climate breakdown

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Climate breakdown and the global crisis of environmental degradation are increasing violence against women and girls, while gender-based exploitation is in turn hampering our ability to tackle the crises, a major report of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has concluded. Attempts to repair environmental degradation and adapt to climate breakdown, particularly in poorer […]

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Contraceptive eligibility for women at high risk of HIV

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Access to sexual and reproductive health services and information, including a comprehensive range of contraceptive methods, is fundamental to the rights and well-being of women and adolescent girls (1–4). There is a wide range of hormonal and non-hormonal modern contraceptive methods providing substantial individual and public health benefits. A core part of the work of […]

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Mortality in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh: historical, social, and political context

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Seventy-seven maternal deaths occurred between September 2017 and August 2018 in the Rohingya refugee camps in Ukhia and Teknaf Upazilas, Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh. Behind every one of these lives lost is a complex narrative of historical, social, and political forces, which provide an important context for reproductive health programming in Rohingya camps. Rohingya women […]

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