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Key Resources on Sexuality and Sexual Health
 
  PAHO Document on Promotion of Sexual Health  
  Sexual Health - a new focus for WHO  
  Defining Sexual Health; Report of a technical consultation on sexual health 28-31 January 2002, Geneva. WHO 2002.  
  Impact of HIV and sexual health education on the sexual behaviour of young people: a review update. UNAIDS 1997.  
  Glossary of Terms on Gender, Sex, Sexuality, Sexual Rights, Reproductive Rights  
  SIECUS Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education  
  UNESCO Guidelines on Language and Content in HIV and AIDS-Related Materials

 
     
 
Electronic Databases
 
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African Journals Online

 
  Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality  
  Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies  
  Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  
  JournalServer.Org  
  British Medical Journal  
  Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS  
  Reproductive Health Matters  
  Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC  
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  Global Development Network, Free Journal Access Portal  
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Resource Library


ARSRC's library is a clearinghouse of sexuality resources in Africa. Its collection includes over 1000 gray literature, research findings from work done in the field of sexuality, and gold standard publications. The literature is diverse, sourced from regional and international sources, but with particular emphasis on Africa. The online library provides information about these materials, as well as links to electronic resources available from other websites.

The objectives of the ARSRC Library are to:

Provide collections and services that support the goals of the Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre.
Organize, interpret, and maintain those collections and services.
Enable patrons use information resources creatively, analytically, and critically toward the acquisition of knowledge.


DISCLAIMER: ARSRC is not responsible for the content of external websites. Links are for information purposes only and does not imply endorsement of site or content.

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SEXUALITY EDUCATION    
Qualitative Research Guide: A Data Collector's Field Guide
Natasha Mack, Cynthia Woodsong, Kathleen M. MacQueen, Greg Guest, Emily Namey
Sexuality and Globalization
Dennis Altman
Fikelela Aids Project: Youth and Sexuality Research Ages 12-19 years in the Diocese of Cape Town South Africa
Rev. Rachel Mash, Mrs Roselyn Kareithi
Transsexualism
Jan Walinder
Sex Reassignment
Friedmann Pflafflin, Astrid Junge
The Transsexual Phenomenon
Harry Benjamin
Electronic International Journal of Transgenderism

Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality

Sexuality Dissertations Online
American Academy of Clinical Sexologists
Life Planning Education. A Youth Development Program
Advocates for Youths
Sexuality and Public Policy

Cybersex and Dirty Teaching: What Teachers Can Learn from Pornographers
J.C. Cronje
The Sociology of Human Sexuality
James M. Henslin
Sexuality Education in Schools: The International Experience and Implications for Nigeria
James E. Rosen, Nancy J. Murray, and Scott Moreland
International Encyclopaedia of Sexuality: South Africa
Lionel Nicholas, Priscilla Daniels, Mervyn Hurwitz
International Encyclopaedia of Sexuality: Nigeria
Uwemedimo Esiet, Christine Adebajo, Mairo Bello, Rakiya Booth, Imo Esiet, Nike Esiet, Foyin Oyebola, Bilkisu Yusuf
International Encyclopaedia of Sexuality: Morocco
Nadia Kadiri and Abderrazak Moussaïd
International Encyclopaedia of Sexuality: Kenya
Norbert Brockman
International Encyclopaedia of Sexuality: Ghana
Augustine Ankomah
International Encyclopaedia of Sexuality: Egypt
Bahira Sherif
The Challenges of Adolescent Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Nigeria
Ogoh Alubo
Sexuality Education in Schools: The International Experience and Implications for Nigeria
James E. Rosen, Nancy J. Murray, and Scott Moreland
Sex, Violence and Constructions of Love Among Xhosa Adolescents: Putting Violence on Sexuality Education Agenda
Katherine Wood, Fidelia Maforah, Rachel Jewkes
Perception of Gatekeepers About Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and the Implications for Designing Youth Programs
Olaronke A. Ladipo, Augustine Ankomah, J. Anyanti, G. Omoregie
Life Skills and HIV Education Curricula in Africa. Methods and Evaluation
Georges Tiendrebeogo, Suzanne Meijer, Gary Engleberg, African Consultants International
Impact of HIV and Sexual Health Education on the Sexual Behavior of Young People: A Review Update
UNAIDS
Developing Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
Delayed Marriage and Abstinence-until-Marriage: On a Collision Course?
Susan A. Cohen
Adolescent Sexuality, Values and Education
Alan J. Flisher
Abstinence Only Education
Eleanor Bader

   
SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS    
Adolescent Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Benue State, Nigeria
Ogoh Olubo, Kola Oyediran, Angela Odiachi
The Application of Human Rights To Reproductive and Sexual Health: A Compilation of the Work of International Human Rights Treaty Bodies
Julie Strachieri, Isfahan Merali, Rebecca J. Cook
The Intimate Enemy. Gender Violence and Reproductive Health
PANOS UK
Reproductive Health Strategy to Accelerate Progress Towards The Attainment of International Development Goals and Targets
WHO, UNDP, UNFPA, World Bank
In This Generation. Sexual and Reproductive Health Policies for a Youthful World
Margaret E. Greene, Zohra Rasekh, Kali-Asher Amen, Nada Chaya, Jenifer Dye
Qualitative Evidence on Adolescents Views on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, Ann. E. Biddlecom, Christine Ouedrago, Vanessa Wong
Marriage, Sexuality and Reproduction Amongst Fulbe Nomads in Southern Borno, North-Eastern Nigeria: Implications for Fulbe Women's Rights and Health
Abdul-Mumin Sa'ad
Men's Roles, Sexuality, and Reproductive Health
Axel I. Mundigo
Birth Rights. New Approaches to Safe Motherhood
PANOS UK
The "Healthy Brothel": The Context of Clinical Services for Sex Workers in Hillbrow, South Africa
RHRU South Africa
Promoting Young People’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Stigma, Discrimination and Human Right
Population Council
Assessing the Role of Anal Intercourse in the Epidemiology of AIDS in Africa
Stuart Brody, John J. Potterat
Sexual Health: A New Focus for WHO
WHO
Are Adolescents and Young Adults More Likely Than Older Women to Choose Commercial and Private Sector Providers of Modern Contraception?
Nancy J. Murray, Leanne Dougherty, Lindsay Stewart, Kathy Buek, Minki Chatterji
Adolescents in Malawi Sexual and Reproductive Health
Alan Guttmacher Institute
Sexual Rights in Southern Africa: A Beijing Discourse or a Strategic Necessity?
Barbara Klugman
South Africa’ Sexual Rights Charter

On the (African) National Question: Sexuality and Tradition
Mark Mathuray
AIDS, Sex and Reproduction: Integrating HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health into Policies, Programmes and Services
WPF and Stop AIDS Now
The Dangers of Dancing: The Media and Morality in 1930s Egypt Shaun T. Lopez

Homosexuality and HIV/AIDS in Kenyan Society

The Silent Right: Homosexuality and the military
Linda Heinecken
Troubling Gender: Homosexuality in an African Society
Wendy Isaack, Henriette Gunkel
Why are you not married yet? Heteronormativity in the African Women’s Movement
Bernadette Muthien
On the (African) National Question: Sexuality and Tradition
Mark Mathuray
Flows of "Sexual Substance" and Representation of the Body in South Africa
Robert Thornton
Anatomy of a Backlash: Sexuality and the "Cultural" War on Human Rights
Scott Long
Modernization and Family Planning in Programs in Egypt
Kamran Asdar Ali
The Islamic Manual of Family Planning
IICPSR- Al Azhar University
Child Prostitution and Sex Tourism South Africa
Julia O’Connell Davidson, Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor
ICPD Programme of Action
UNFPA
United Nations Millennium Declaration

Legal Ground: Reproductive and Sexual Rights in African Commonwealth Courts.
Center for Reproductive Rights
Gender, Sexuality and the Criminal Laws in the Middle East and North Africa
Dr. Sherifa Zuhur
Dreams and Desires: Sexual and Reproductive Health Experiences of HIV Positive Women
IPPF/ICW
Violence Against Women: Effects on Reproductive Health Outlook
PATH
Towards Redirecting the Female Circumcision Debate: Legal, Ethical and Cultural Considerations
Angela Wasunna
The Sexual Experience and Marital Adjustment of Genitally Circumcised and Infibulated Females in Sudan
Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
The Factors Influencing Transactional Sex Among Young Men and Women in Twelve sub-Saharan African Countries
Minki Chatterji, Nancy Murray, David London, Phillip Anglewicz
The Experience of Sexual Coercion Among Young People in Kenya
Annabel S. Erulkar
The Effect of HIV/AIDS on Sexual Behavior of Young People in Kenya
Cathy Toroitich-Ruto
The Challenges of Adolescent Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Nigeria
Ogoh Alubo
Special Needs of Ritually Circumcised Women Patients
Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, Evelyn Shaw
Sexual Risk Behavior Among Young People in Bamenda, Cameroon
Mburano Rwenge
Sexual Rights in Southern Africa: A Beijing Discourse or a Strategic Necessity 
Barbara Klugman
Sexual Networking Among Some Lagos State Adolescent Students
Beatrice Adenike Oloko, A.O. Omoboye
Sexual Identities and Sex Work-Interrogating the Interface. A Study on Constructed Identities Among Female Sex Workers in Kampala City
Richard Ssewakiryanga
Sexual Health Experience of Adolescents in Three Ghanaian Towns Evam Kofi Glover, Angela Bannerman, Brian Wells Pence,
Heidi Jones, Robert Miller, Eugene Weiss and Joana Nerquaye-Tetteh
Sexual Activity and Contraceptive Knowledge and Use Among in-School Adolescents in Nigeria
Uche Amazigo, Nancy Silva, Joan Kaufman and Daniel S. Obikeze
Islam and Women’s Reproductive and Sexual Rights in Senegal
Codou
Investigating Exchange in Sexual Relationships in sub-Saharan Africa Using Survey Data
Nancy Luke
Infibulation in the Horn of Africa 
Guy Pieters, Albert B. Lowenfels
Infertility and Social Suffering: The Case of ART in Developing Countries
Abdullah S. Daar, Zara Merali
Impact of HIV and Sexual Health Education on the Sexual Behavior of Young People: A Review Update
UNAIDS
Female Genital Mutilation: Prevalence and Distribution 
World Health Organization (1996)
Female Genital Mutilation in Africa
Aaron Myers, Sideya Sherman, Opio Sokoni
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): Legal Prohibitions Worldwide
Center for Reproductive Rights
Female Circumcision: Rite of Passage or Violation of Rights?
Frances A. Althaus
Female Circumcision and Obstetric Complications
U. Larsen, F. E. Okonofua
Family, Sexuality and Reproduction in Africa
Cheikh Ibrahima Niang
Family Planning Methods and Practice: Africa
Center for Disease Control
Erroneous Beliefs Systems Underlying Female Genital Mutilation in sub-Saharan Africa and Male Neonatal Circumcision in the United States: A Brief Report
Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation: Lessons for Donors
Wallace Global Fund
Epidemiology of Female Sexual Castration in Cairo, Egypt
Mohamed Badawi
Cross-generational and Transactional Sexual Relations in sub-Saharan Africa: Prevalence of Behavior and Implications for Negotiating Safer Sexual Practices
Nancy Luke, Kathleen M. Kurz
Contraception and Sexuality Among Youth in Kisumu, Kenya
Missie L. Oindo
Condom Use and Popular Press in Nigeria
Elisha P. Renne
Afro-Arab Expert Consultation Legal Tools For Prevention of Female Genital Mutilation 
Cairo Declaration for the Elimination of FGM
Abandoning Female Genital Cutting: Prevalence, Attitudes, and Efforts to End the Practice
Population Reference Bureau
     
     
     
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  UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Documentation Centre  
 
  SEXUALITY RESEARCH AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
  Population Council  
  APHRC  
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  CODESRIA  
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  African Gender Institute  
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  South Africa Medical Research Council  
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  GENDER AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS
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  BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights  
  Human Rights Watch  
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  HIV/AIDS
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  AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGIS)  
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Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (IAC)

 
 

Sexual Violence Research Initiative

 
 

Coalition of Violence Against Women (COVAW)

 
 

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International Women's Health Coalition

 
 

Centre of Reproductive Rights

 
 

Department of Reproductive Health Research, World Health Organization

 
 

Reproductive Health Research Unit (RHRU)

 
 

Global Reproductive Health Forum

 
 

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World Association for Sexual Health

 
 

Sexual Health Network

 
       
  LGBQTI
  Behind the Mask  
  Gay and Lesbian Archives, University of Witwatersrand (GALA)  
  ILGHRC  
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  Africa GLBT Resources  
       
  YOUTH
  Advocates for Youth  
  Family Health International Youth Info Net  
  Straight Talk Foundation  
  IPPF Youth Resources  
  Population Council/Frontiers  
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Child Rights Information Network

 
  Demographic health Survey Youth Centre  
  Youth Policy. Com  
  UNESCO Adolescent Reproductive Sexual Health Site  
  Staying Alive. Org  
  ETR's Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention  
       
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