Latest Gender and Development Publications

The Gender Advocacy Programme (GAP) has the following quality research reports and other publications, covering Domestic Violence, Local Government and Gender, Women and Governance, and Media, available for order:

HIV care and treatment - gender equity research

Reporting on the Sixth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection (in CATIE News-December 16, 2002), correspondent Sean Hosein provides the following rapportage on "Who gets treatment - and side effects?"

HIV/AIDS researchers reduced to tears

A nightmarish horror story of life in the poorest HIV-infected families shows that poverty in South Africa is spilling over into wholesale destitution.

Understanding youth culture is key

Over 60 percent of HIV/AIDS infections in South Africa occur before the age of 25, a recent report from the South African University of Cape Town has revealed. The report focuses on "high risk" sexual activity among the youth and makes particular reference to South Africa.

Creating contexts that support youth-led HIV prevention in schools

In a paper recently accepted for publication in "Society in Transition 33(3)2002", the authors examine the contextual factors affecting the success of HIV-prevention in schools, and the most appropriate strategies for creating contexts that support the success of school-based efforts to reduce HIV transmission.

Swaziland's uphill struggle for safe sex campaign

The first survey of Swazis' sexual behaviour and attitudes toward HIV/AIDS has found that high awareness of the pandemic has not translated into less risk-taking behaviour, and that HIV-positive people remain unwilling to admit their status.

Call for Social Science papers AIDS Online Journal

Following sixteen years of publishing the groundbreaking research on HIV and AIDS, this outstanding journal continues to lead the field. The journal wishes to encourage top quality submissions from social scientists of all disciplines. High quality empirical papers focusing on gender issues, dynamics and relationships are especially welcome from those working within the fields of anthropology, psychology, political science and sociology.

Major SA Study proves rape and AIDS are linked

South Africa turned HIV thinking on its head at an important AIDS conference in Boston this week when Dr Francois Venter, a Johannesburg physician, presented probably the world's most significant research findings yet into the relationship between rape and HIV.

'Rape by schoolboys is normal'

A new survey among 450 Durban schoolboys suggests sexual aggression against their female counterparts has become the norm. A staggering two thirds of high school boys questioned have admitted to sexually abusing girls under 18, and a further 17% of them have gone as far as rape.

Over 55 KZN teachers died every month in 2000

Over 680 teachers in KwaZulu-Natal - more than 55 a month - died in-service in 2000. Most died from unspecified illnesses, and the average age at the time of death was 36.