Gender Updates

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October 6, 2011

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GENDER UPDATES

EVENTS 

Brown Bag Event: Exploring the Social Inclusion Approach

When: Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 12:30-2:00 PM

Where: The Centre for Development and Population Activities 1120 20th Street, Suite 720 South Building Washington, D.C.

Please join CEDPA in a discussion exploring the pros and cons of using a gender and social inclusion approach versus a solely gender approach for the advancement of women. In the past few years, CEDPA has been moving towards adopting a gender and social inclusion approach to empowering women and girls worldwide. CEDPA recognizes that while there are practical and strategic benefits of using a gender and social inclusion approach, there are also some conceptual complications accompanying the approach, and that adopting such an approach risks minimizing gender as a form of social exclusion. Please join us for a lively discussion on these different approaches.

Please RSVP by October 7 to rsvp@cedpa.org.

RESOURCES

The New eAtlas of Gender
World Bank

The new World Bank eAtlas of Gender, the latest in a suite of user-friendly, interactive electronic atlases, allows users to map and graph dozens of gender-related indicators-including wages and earnings, mean age at first marriage, maternal leave benefits, school enrollment rates, violence against women and more-over time and across countries. It allows users to see how a country fares on several dimensions of well-being and empowerment. Simply click on an indicator after a keyword search and a world map appears, showing the latest data for more than 200 economies.


With this eAtlas, you can:

* Map dozens of World Bank indicators worldwide

* Compare and view two maps simultaneously

* Animate maps to show change over time

* View all data in ranking tables and charts alongside maps

* Export maps and data for use in presentations and more

* Import your own data.

PUBLICATIONS 

Use of hormonal Contraceptives and Risk of HIV-1 Transmission: a Prospective Cohort Study
The Lancent Infectious Diseases, October 4, 2011

Background Hormonal contraceptives are used widely but their effects on HIV-1 risk are unclear. We aimed to assess the association between hormonal contraceptive use and risk of HIV-1 acquisition by women and HIV-1 transmission from HIV-1-infected women to their male partners.

Interpretation Women should be counseled about potentially increased risk of HIV-1 acquisition and transmission with hormonal contraception, especially injectable methods, and about the importance of dual protection with condoms to decrease HIV-1 risk. Non-hormonal or low-dose hormonal contraceptive methods should be considered for women with or at-risk for HIV-1.

Editorial: Hormonal Contraception and HIV: an unanswered question
The Lancet Infectious Diseases Charles S Morrison a, Kavita Nanda a a Clinical Sciences, FHI 360, October 4, 2011

Most of the 16 million women currently living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa, where 60% of HIV infections occur in women. A high proportion of women in this region also use hormonal contraception, especially injectable depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA). Since the first report of increased HIV acquisition in women taking oral contraceptives, whether hormonal contraception increases the risk of HIV acquisition remains a crucial unanswered question.

USAID communication to the field: USAID response to new findings on hormonal contraception and HIV acquisition in uninfected women and HIV transmission from infected women to male partners
Sent to USAID Missions by Scott Radloff, Director, Office of Population and Reproductive Health, August 5, 2011

Results from an unpublished new analysis1 presented at the 2011 International AIDS Society conference in Rome suggested that using certain methods of hormonal contraception (HC) (particularly injectable contraception) may double the risk of HIV acquisition in a previously uninfected woman, and may also double the risk that an HIV-infected woman will transmit HIV to a previously uninfected male sexual partner. In addition, HC appeared to be associated with higher levels of genital HIV viral load, which the investigators suggest may explain why HC appears to have increased HIV transmission from women to men.

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