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In sub-Saharan Africa, home to two-thirds of the world's people living with HIV, women make up 60 percent of those infected. Not only are women biologically more susceptible than men to HIV, many behavioral and social factors play into women's vulnerability. The Silent Partner: HIV in Marriage was produced by Population Action International (PAI) to raise awareness of the risk of HIV transmission within marriage, and to illustrate the particular challenges facing married women. It also shows that traditional approaches to HIV prevention do not meet the needs of married women, because practicing abstinence is unrealistic, because wives cannot control the faithfulness of their husbands, and because they find it difficult to negotiate condom use.
This 12-minute documentary, filmed in Kenya, is intended to inform and provoke discussion of harmful gender and societal norms that put women and couples at risk for HIV. It is also intended for advocacy to mobilize political and financial support for sexual and reproductive health and rights to achieve broader social, economic and gender equity for everyone.
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Filmed in Kenya and Uganda, this short documentary provides a snapshot of the Bush administration's abstinence-only approach to HIV prevention as part of its global HIV/AIDS assistance. But according to many studies, including two recent reports from the General Accounting Office and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, we know that abstinence-only programs do not work. Abstaining from Reality examines how these ideologically-driven programs are actually endangering the lives of the people they're supposed to be protecting, while wasting hundreds of millions of dollars. Population Action International is working to achieve HIV policies that are culturally relevant, grounded in scientific evidence, and that successfully protect people worldwide from contracting this fatal disease.
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Access Denied: U.S. Family Planning Restrictions in Zambia
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- Posted by Population Action International
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Access Denied details the impact of the Global Gag Rule on reproductive health programs in Zambia, one of the poorest countries in Africa. At a time when one in five adults is infected with HIV and nearly 70 percent of the population is under the ...
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Abstaining From Reality: U.S. Restrictions on HIV Prevention
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- Posted by Population Action International
- 292 Views
Filmed in Kenya and Uganda, this short documentary provides a snapshot of the Bush administration's abstinence-only approach to HIV prevention as part of its global HIV/AIDS assistance. But according to many studies, including two recent reports f...
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Finding Balance: Forests and Family Planning in Madagascar
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- Posted by Population Action International
- 263 Views
This award-winning documentary journeys to the edge of a rapidly disappearing world in Madagascar, where population growth continues to fuel the cycle of poverty and deforestation. To support Population Action International's mission of improving...
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