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Gender and HIV prevention education - a new manual

A posting from gender-aids. ([email protected]). 22 April 2003.
The Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research (NIKK) announces publication of a hands-on manual for gender-focused HIV prevention work: "Gendering Prevention Practices".

A practical guide to working with gender
sexual safety and HIV awareness education. Informed by the NIKK Living for Tomorrow project on youth, gender and HIV prevention. By Jill Lewis

This manual lays out 8 sessions, each with an array of diverse learning activities, for capacity building to help men and women participants grasp the implications of working with gender in HIV prevention. The session
themes are: Perceptions of Gender, Ways of Understanding Gender, Key aspects of Gender for HIV prevention, Sex as a Gendered Activity, Gender and HIV, Embodying Change, A Sense of Working Together, and Reviewing Gender issues in Context.

Printed copies for use in trainings, schools, NGOs, other organizations or educational initiatives are available by contacting NIKK at:
[email protected]

Living for Tomorrow was a 3-year, NIKK action/research project exploring and implementing gender focus as central to HIV prevention with young people, with its action implementation in Estonia. Its ideas and strategies have fertilized work in cultural contexts as diverse as Norway, Sierra
Leone, Croatia, the US, South Africa, England.

You can access and download Living for Tomorrow documents from the publications section of the Living for Tomorrow web page at the NIKK
website: http://www.nikk.uio.no/forskningsprojekt/livingfortomorrow/lft_pubtext.htm
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