Publications on Women and Men

The survey attempted to take advantage of Nepal’s attempt to include a third gender category in its national census, the first such attempt in the world. It reveals that LGBT people in Nepal continue to face a wide range of obstacles as individuals and as a community.

This report reviews the progress made in implementing the financial commitments to the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health (Global Strategy).

This report presents the key findings and recommendations of the review of Myanmar's legal framework and its effect on access to health and HIV prevention and treatment services for people living with HIV and key populations.

The Pacific Sexual Health and Well-Being Shared Agenda 2015–2019 is a visionary document that provides guidance and strategic direction to strengthen the sexual health response in the Pacific region.

The action plan sets out a vision of a world in which there are no preventable deaths of newborns or stillbirths, where every pregnancy is wanted, every birth celebrated and women, babies and children survive, thrive and reach their full potential.

In the case of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of both HIV and syphilis, testing pregnant women is a critical intervention for prevention, care and treatment of both mother and child.

The report, entitled ‘Why Do Some Men Use Violence Against Women and How Can We Prevent It? Quantitative Findings from the UN Multi-country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific’ was conducted in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea. It explores the prevalence of men’s use of violence against women in the survey sites, and shows what factors make men more or less likely to use violence.

The BROS Khmer study was designed to collect integrated HIV serostatus and behavioral risk information among Cambodian men frequenting ‘hot spots’ or MSM with a mobile bus.

This is the presentation from BROS Khmer's use of the mobile bus and audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (ACASI) to conduct an HIV Behavioral Serosurvey among urban men in eight Cambodia cities.

This report includes the findings from the three Second Generation Surveillance (SGS) surveys of STIs and HIV prevalence and risk behaviour, which were conducted in 2008 in Vanuatu.