Sexual contact between psychological therapists and their clients is regarded as highly damaging, both to the clients and to the professions, and regulatory bodies impose increasingly severe sanctions upon those practitioners who are disciplined. The present study captured therapists' accounts of sexual boundary violations through interpretative phenomenological analysis of interviews with thre...

we derive whole series of new integral inequalities of the hardy-type, with non-conjugate exponents. first, we prove and discuss two equivalent general inequa-li-ties of such type, as well as their corresponding reverse inequalities. general results are then applied to special hardy-type kernel and power weights. also, some estimates of weight functions and constant factors are obtained. ...

Recent evidence suggests that the burden of new HIV infections in developing countries is concentrated among young people and females. Even with knowledge of how to protect oneself from infection, such information may not always be usable in daily situations of economic and social disadvantage that characterize the lives of many young people and women in poor countries. Using household survey d...

Through her literary works, Nicaraguan poet, author, and revolutionary Gioconda Belli employs graphic images of sex and the female body in an effort to empower women and stir up a revolution against inequality in the realms of sexuality, reproductive health, and politics. A woman who is highly in tune with her sexual needs, Belli has an inclination toward eroticism in her writing, which she use...

T he role of gender-based violence in fuelling the global HIV pandemic is now undeniable. In recent years, research from both developed and developing countries has consistently shown that women who experience genderbased violence and gender inequality are at greater risk of HIV. Mounting evidence on connections between men’s perpetration of gender-based violence and male HIV risk behaviour sug...

There is increasing recognition that to reduce gender inequality – a goal fundamental to improving a country’s overall health and development – programs must start with youth. Yet there has been limited engagement of both girls and boys during early adolescence to challenge and shift gender norms that contribute to girls and women having less worth, opportunities and decision-making ability tha...