New Publications
Gender and HIV Prevention Education in the Asia and Pacific Region
This paper is a collection, both previously published and new, describing efforts in the Asia/Pacific region to target young women with HIV prevention health messages.? It seeks to provide non-formal HIV prevention educators with information and tools that will help them understand the complexities of gender specific to the region.??
UNESCO & UNFPA, 2008 
Headlines
Straight to the Point: Hypocrisy about sex damages society's health, (Jon Ungphakorn, Jan, 2008)
"Thai society is steeped in hypocrisy. We pretend to adhere to ultra conservative moral values regarding sex, marriage - and prostitution - while the actual way we live our lives is very different."
AUSTRALIA: Confronting approach to HIV in gay community (The Age, Jan, 2008)
Gay newspapers in Melbourne use "very targeted and explicit safe-sex campaign" to raise HIV awareness in community seeing increasing infection rates
Report: Abstinence Not Curbing Teen Sex (Associated Press, Nov, 2007)
"Programs that focus exclusively on abstinence have not been shown to affect teenager sexual behavior, although they are eligible for tens of millions of dollars in federal grants, according to a study released by a nonpartisan group that seeks to reduce teen pregnancies"
The "People's War" Against Drugs and HIV/AIDS?(Asia Media, Media News Daily, Oct, 2007)
Drew Thompson reviews China's steps to curb abuse and trafficking of illegal drugs.
536,000 deaths a year: the childbirth toll (Sarah Boseley, health editor, Guardian, Oct, 2007)
"More than half a million women still die every year in pregnancy or after childbirth in spite of two decades of efforts to bring down the toll, reports reveal today."
INDONESIA: Female condom programme falters (Plus News, Aug, 2007)
"Indonesia has worked hard to increase condom use but, hampered by a strong patriarchal culture and a sporadic approach to promoting them, the results have been disappointing."
Poor fall behind in birth control: Contraception gap widens in richer countries (William J Cromie, Harvard News Office, Feb, 2007) "The World Health Organization estimates that 123 million women worldwide want to limit the number of children they have but are not using contraceptives."
If we ruled the world ... (The Observer, May, 2002)
"Your voices will be heard, I promise," Kofi Annan told 350 children last Sunday at the opening of the Children's Forum. But a week later, hundreds of child and teenage delegates to the United Nations are wondering what such promises are worth, as the United States holds the rest of the world hostage over sex education. A delegation to New York from Children's Express and The Observer reports on how the issue of sexual health became a battleground, and hears from some of the young people at the sharp end of the talks."
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