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Results displayed are grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections then by individual related materials. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
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  • General Material
January 2010

Addressing Violence against Women and Girls in Sexual and Reproductive Health Services

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This guidance document focuses on the integration of violence against women resources into the existing Sexual and Reproductive Health framework. It introduces key principles, discusses evidence from the literature and provides a foundation for integrating gender based violence and sexual and reproductive health services.
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  • General Material
January 2010

Policy approaches to engaging men and boys in achieving gender equality and health equity

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This policy brief discusses the importance of developing and implementing policies to engage men in achieving gender equality and reducing health disparities. While it deals largely with issues related to disease and other health issues, the rationale and framework may be useful in developing internal policies and advocating for broader policy-driven social change.
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  • General Material
January 2010

What's in a Word? A Guide to Understanding Interpreting and Translation in Health Care

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This guide explains the difference between interpretation and translation, and provides standards of practice and methods and modes of interpreting and translating.
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  • General Material
  • Training Tools
January 2010

What If She Says Yes? A Webinar of Strategies for Health Professionals When Someone Discloses DV

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This webinar provides an opportunity to learn how to respond to and advocate for clients experiencing domestic violence. Covering some of the emotional, legal, and financial implications of DV, participants will learn strategies to better help survivors of abuse.
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  • General Material
January 2010

Preventing HIV Infection in Women: A global Health Imperative

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This resource discusses prevention of HIV infection in women utilizing a strong knowledge of biological, behavioral, and structural factors from a global health perspective.
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  • General Material
January 2010

Whose Choice? How the Hyde Amendment Harms Poor Women

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This report exposes the harms perpetrated by the Hyde Amendment—the law that prohibits federal Medicaid dollars from paying for abortion services except in the most extreme circumstances.
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  • General Material
January 2010

Reproductive Health and Partner Violence Guidelines: An Integrated Response to Intimate Partner Violence and Reproductive Coercion

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This guide focuses on the transformative role of the reproductive health care provider in identifying and addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) and reproductive coercion.
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  • General Material
October 2009

Intimate Partner Violence and Barriers to Mental Healthcare for Ethnically Diverse Populations of Women

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Ethnically diverse populations of women, particularly survivors of intimate partner violence, experience many barriers to mental health care. Attention to the barriers to mental health care for ethnically diverse survivors of IPV can help inform the development of more effective strategies for health care practice and policy.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
June 2009

Sexual Violence Against Women: Impact on High-Risk Health Behaviors and Reproductive Health

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This Applied Research paper provides a brief overview of research on the impact of sexual violence on females’ high-risk health behaviors and reproductive health, focusing on studies of sexual assault or rape experienced primarily during adulthood.
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  • General Material
April 2009

Disability and HIV Policy Brief

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This comprehensive policy brief discusses the actions needed to increase the participation of persons with disabilities in the HIV response and ensure they have access to HIV services which are both tailored to their diverse needs and equal to the services available to others in the community.
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  • General Material
February 2009

Doubling the Damage: World Bank Climate Investment Funds Undermine Climate and Gender Justice

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This report discusses environmental and gender justice in regards to the World Bank Climate Investment Funds' projects that aim at producing green jobs and gender equality; concluding that these efforts fall short and have the potential of increased harm to the planet and impoverished women.
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  • General Material
January 2009

Reducing Inequities in Health and Safety through Prevention

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This memo offers a suggested strategy for developing a comprehensive, prevention-oriented approach to health equity, starting with the highest levels of the federal government and continuing to states and communities.