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Meeting the sexual health needs of young people living on the street
No full textIn this chapter, the situations faced by children and young people on the street are discussed alongside the risks to their sexual health. The available literature concerning the sexual health of street-living young people is described alongside findings from some recently conducted research among street-living young people in Zimbabwe. As such, the chapter explores how factors identified in the broader literature intersect and affect real lives. While recognising that living on the street presents profound and indisputable challenges to young people's sexual health and wider well-being, the chapter discusses the importance of approaches to sexual health promotion that are both meaningful and contextualised within young people's life circumstances. It discusses. the inadequacies of viewing street living young people solely through a lens that focuses on their passivity, victimisation and their need for protection. Such an approach risks both misrepresenting the challenges that these young people face and undermining their collective capacity to define their own responses. Rather, we argue that programme responses which strike a balance between acknowledging street-living young people's vulnerability and enabling them to take greater control over factors affecting their sexual health are more likely to have a positive impact on their well-being
Dynamic contextual analysis of young people's sexual health: a context specific approach to understanding barriers to, and opportunities for, change
No full textSexuality, Gender, Citizenship and Social Justice: Education’s Queer Relations
No full textRasmussen, Cover, Aggleton and Marshall provide a critical examination of sexual citizenship, by exploring key conceptual ideas that often underpin commonplace understandings of sexuality, citizenship and social justice, and trying to unsettle them. The chapter then explores how curriculum reform intersects with debates about sexual citizenship and social justice in education. The authors then turn to some of the critiques of educational reforms associated with citizenship discourses in the area of disability, religion and what Quinn and Meiners term ‘gay wins’. The chapter concludes with some provocations for future research related to sexuality education, education and belonging that purposefully eschews ‘citizenship’
Review of LHC experimental results on low mass bosons in multi Higgs models
No full textA variety of searches have been performed at the LHC using Run I data, looking for decays of the discovered Higgs boson, h125, decaying to a pair of low mass bosons, with mass in the range 2mμ−mh125/2≃62 GeV. We summarise the most pertinent ones, and look at how their limits affect a variety of supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric models which can give rise to such light bosons: the 2HDM (Types I and II), the NMSSM, and the nMSSM
Outsider status: stigma and discrimination experienced by gay men and African people with HIV
No full textIn recent years there has been an increasing amount of international-level policy and research about the negative impact that HIV-related stigma and discrimination have on the well-being of people with HIV and on prevention (Aggleton & Parker 2002, DeBruyn 2002, Nyblade 2003, UNAIDS/WHO 2003, United Nations 2001). It is clear that stigma and discrimination relating to HIV infection are persistent problems for those who have been diagnosed. Evidence gathered in the UK demonstrates that the majority of people living with HIV report the effects of stigma and discrimination in a range of settings (see Scott 2001 for a detailed review). Sigma’s own work investigating the experiences of people living with HIV in the UK has found that just under a quarter experienced discrimination within the previous year while accessing services, social settings, and in public (Weatherburn et al. 2002). Moreover, a study focussing on African people living with HIV in the UK (Weatherburn et al. 2003) revealed that over one third had experienced problems with discrimination in the previous year. This same study revealed that just under half of African people with HIV had not revealed their diagnosis to anyone they lived with, two thirds had not told their employers and a quarter had not told their GP. There is little question that people’s concern about disclosure of their diagnosis bears a direct relationship to their concern that doing so will bring about damaging consequences.
Although the prevalence and impact of stigma and discrimination relating to HIV in the UK is clear, there is little qualitative research that explores the operation of stigma and discrimination as processes and seeks to describe the nature of the relationship between stigma, discrimination and reduced health outcomes (although see Elam, 2004). Case studies and policy reports point to the role of government policy, political leadership and social environments in either worsening or ameliorating the negative effects of stigma and discrimination (Atrill et al. 2001, Kinniburgh et al. 2001, Fortier 2003). This report presents the findings of a study which explores how stigma and discrimination contribute to reduced health and well-being for the two largest groups of people living with HIV in the UK: African migrants and Gay and Bisexual men. In order to do so, it is necessary to critically consider the ways in which stigma and discrimination are theorised and described
Review of Higgs-to-light-Higgs searches at the LHC
No full textWe review the most relevant LHC searches at s √ = 8 TeV looking for low mass bosons arising from exotic decay of the Standard Model Higgs and highlighting their impact on both supersymmetric and not supersymmetric Beyond the Standard Model scenarios
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