From the category archives:

Prevention

Obama administration unveils strategy against HIV/AIDS

July 13, 2010

posted in: Campus,Prevention

In the global struggle against gender based violence and HIV/AIDS, the two are inextricably intertwined as pressing human rights and public health issues that cross race, class, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, age, and ability/disability.  Sexual violence increases a victim’s risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Today, the Obama administration unveiled the national strategy

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Working with men at Western Washington University

July 12, 2010

posted in: Prevention

PreventConnect.org (18 min) In this interview with Joshua O’Donnell, Men’s Violence Prevention Project Coordinator at Western Washington University, the essential elements of establishing men’s anti-violence groups on college campuses are discussed.

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Prevention terms for regular people

July 10, 2010

posted in: Prevention

In the Summer 2010 issue of Transforming Communities‘ newsletter Catalyst, there a a very funny and insightful glossary of common prevention terms: Prevention: shutting down the war machine instead of applying bandages Evidence-Based: almost impossible to replicate but a pretty good idea anyway Positive Assets: all the things your grandparents swear that they had more

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Social marketing to prevent sexual violence

July 8, 2010

posted in: Prevention

In the study recently ePublished in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Sharyn Potter and her colleagues at the University of New Hampshire have found that students who identify with the subjects in a poster campaign are more likely to take some action toward the prevention of violence against women.

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The use and misuse of data on rape

July 8, 2010

posted in: Prevention

PreventConnect.org (23 min) PreventConnect’s David Lee interviews Jody Raphael of the DePaul University College of Law, and Dr. TK Logan of the University of Kentucky. Raphael and Logan wrote the whitepaper “The Use and Misuse of Data on Rape: Restoring Sexual Violence to the National Agenda” for presentation at the CounterQuo Conference in October 2008.

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Date rape anthems

July 6, 2010

posted in: Prevention

PreventConnect.org (14 min) PreventConnect’s David Lee spoke with Amanda Hess who writes The Sexist – a blog for the Washington City Paper about sex and gender.

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