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Me,My Intimate Partner and HIV: Fijian Self Assessment of Transmission Risk
December 2011

The report, “Me, My Intimate Partner, and HIV: Fijian Self Assessments of Transmission Risks” is the fruit of a part-training, part- research project undertaken in 2010. The project’s aim was to strengthen Fiji’s response to HIV and AIDS by collecting and analyzing qualitative data about Fijian perceptions of their risks of HIV transmission and of STIs.

The project interviewed 74 couples, with respondents being interviewed separately and by different researchers so as to protect their confidentiality and anonymity. They belonged to one of six “target groups”: people in sex work; gays and lesbians; Christian pastors; university students; taxi-cab drivers; and healthcare workers. The research team interviewed 20 ”Key Informants,” including expatriates; conducted 14 audiotaped, focus group-interviews; led 74 face-to-face interviews; collected 148 drawings by research participants that depicted ”Me, My Intimate Partner, and HIV” and ”How I Try to Prevent HIV Transmission”; and collected another 222 drawings depicting “Risky Behaviour,” “Risky Person,” and “Risky Setting.”

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Me,My Intimate Partner and HIV: Fijian Self Assessment of Transmission Risk

Human Development Report 2011
November 2011
Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

The 2011 Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals. Bold action is needed on both fronts, the Report contends, if the recent human development progress for most of the world’s poor majority is to be sustained, for the benefit of future generations as well as for those living today.

Complete Report

Foreword, Acknowledgments and Contents

Overview

Chapter 1 - Why sustainability and equity?

Chapter 2 - Patterns and trends in human development, equity and environmental indicators

Chapter 3 - Tracing the effects—understanding the relations

Chapter 4 - Positive synergies—winning strategies for the environment, equity and human development

Chapter 5 - Rising to the policy challenges

Notes and Bibliography

Readers Guide

Human Development Statistical Tables

Technical Notes

Secret Lives...Other Voices
August 2011

Secret Lives, Other voices .... A Community Based Study Exploring Male-to-Male Sex, Gender Identity and HIV Transmision Risk in Fiji provides baseline data to address the gap in information regarding social and sexual behaviours of men who have sex with men and transgender persons and how the behaviours relate to STI/HIV risk and access HIV prevention services. This study will contribute to ongoing national and regional efforts to respond more effectively to MSM/TG issues and inform development of targeted programming for these groups. The study resulted from an AIDS Task Force of Fiji project funded by a competitive grant from the HIV and AIDs Thematic trust Fund of the United Nations Development Programme.

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