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HIV/AIDS AND GENDER ISSUES
1 1 Nicholas Street, Suite 726, Ottawa ON K1N 7B7 Telephone: (613) 233 7440 Fax: (613) 233 8361 E-mail: Website: Researchers, policymakers, and programmers have long recognized that GENDER plays a role in vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and its impacts in every region in the world. GENDER refers to socially defined and learned male and female behaviours that shape the opportunities that one is offered in life, the roles one may play and the kinds of relationships that one has. It is distinct from sex, which is a biologically determined and fixed set of characteristics for men and women. It is also distinct from - though closely linked to - sexuality, which is the social construction of a biological drive that is defined by how, why, and with whom one has sex (Rao Gupta, 2000).
3 homophobia, leaving men who have sex with men to struggle with fear and stigma. This can often compel men who have sex with men to keep their
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