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In the Reproductive Health section you will find:

H - 21 Guidelines for HIV Interventions in Emergency Settings (UNHCR/WHO/UNAIDS, 1996)

H - 22 Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations: An Inter-Agency Field Manual (WHO/UNFPA/UNHCR, 1999)

H - 23 Sexual Violence against Refugees: Guidelines on Prevention and Response (UNHCR, 1995)

How to Guide 1: A Community-based Response to Sexual Violence Against Women (Tanzania, January 1997)

How to Guide 4: Building a Team Approach to the Prevention and Response to Sexual Violence (Tanzania, September 1998)

How to Guide 5: Strengthening Safe Mothorhood Services (Tanzania, November 1998)

How to Guide 6: Monitoring and Evaluation of Sexual and Gender Violence Programmes (Tanzania, April 2000)

How to Guide 7: Sexual and Gender-based Violence Programme in Guinea (January 2001)

How to Guide 8: Sexual and Gender-based Violence Programme in Liberia (January 2001)

How to Guide 9: Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations (Kenya, June 2001)

How to Guide 10: Conducting a Reproductive Health KAP Survey with Refugee Young People (South Africa, December 2001)

H - 21 Guidelines for HIV Interventions in Emergency Settings (UNHCR/WHO/UNAIDS, 1996)

Primary Audience: Governments and co-operating agencies, including the UN agencies and NGOs. Provides guidelines to adopt, at the earliest opportunity, the measures necessary to prevent the rapid epidemic spread of HIV in emergency situations, and to care for those already affected.

H - 22 Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations: An Inter-Agency Field Manual (WHO/UNFPA/UNHCR, 1999)

Primary Audience: Field managers of health services in refugee situations. Serves as a tool to facilitate discussion and decision-making in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of reproductive health interventions, and guides field staff in introducing and/or strengthening reproductive health interventions in refugee situations, based on refugees' needs and demands, and with full respect for their beliefs and values. Advocates for a multi-sectoral approach to meeting the reproductive health needs of refugees and fosters co-ordination among all partners.

H - 23 Sexual Violence against Refugees: Guidelines on Prevention and Response (UNHCR, 1995)

Primary Audience: Field workers and others who come into contact with refugees. Provide guidelines to address ways to combat the occurrence of sexual violence and how to respond when incidents occur. Emphasises the need for education, training, and information campaigns. Underlines the need for refugees, and in particular, refugee women, to receive legal awareness training, leadership and skills training, and education. This electronic version does not include all annexes listed. This guideline is currently under revision and will be available during the summer of 2002.

How to Guide 1: A Community-based Response to Sexual Violence Against Women (Tanzania, January 1997)