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AAH: Act against homophbia
ABC: Abstinence, Be faithful, Condoms
ADL: Anti Discrimination laws
AEGIS: Aids Education Global Information Service
AGI: Alan Guthmacher Institute
AI: Amnesty International
AIDS: Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome
AMREF: African Medical Research Foundation
APHA: American Public Health Association
AOC: Age Of Consent
AOIFE: Association of Institutions for Feminist Education
ARC: Aids Research Centre
ARM: Association for Research on Mothering
ART: Antiretroviral Therapy
ARV: Anti-Retroviral (Drugs)
ASRHR: Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights
AWID: Association for Women's Rights in Development
B
BBE: Bilateral Biträdande Expert
BCC: Behaviour Change Communication
BDSM: Bondage Disciplin Dominans Submission Sadism Masochism
BS: Bisexuell
C
CBHW: Community-Based Health Worker
CBOH: Central Board of Health
CEDAW: Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women
CHR: Commission on Human Rights
CPA: Cairo Plan of Action
CPR: Contraceptive Prevalence Rate
CPRL: Center for Reproductive Rights
CSD: Commission on Sustainable Development
CSW: Commercial Sex Worker
D
DACC: District AIDS Control Co-ordinators
DFPA: Danish Family Planning Association
DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
DMFSB: Determinants of Male Fertility and Sexual behaviour
DO: Diskrimineringsombudsmannen
DSM: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
E
EC : Emergency Contraception
ECA: Economic Commission for Africa
ECOSOC: United Nations Economic and Social Council
ECP: Emergency Contraceptive Pills
ECPAT: End Child Prostitution Pornography and Trafficking
ECSOC: European commision on Sexual Orientation law
EDOA: European Database on AIDS and HIV Infection
EKMR: Europeiska konventionen skydd för mänskliga rättigheter och grundläggande friheter
Eurongo: European NGOs
Europap: European network for HIV/STD Prevention in prostitution
EMAC: Education Materials Approval Committee
EU: European Union
F
F 56: ICD-diagnosen Disorder of sexual preference; Fetischism
FC: Female Condom
FDA: US Food and Drug Administration
FGC: Female Genital Cutting
FGD: Focus Group Discussion
FGM: Female genital Mutilation
FHI: Family Health International
FHI: Folkhälsoinstitutet
FIGO: International Federation of Gynecologi and Obstretics
FP: Family Planning
FPA: Family Planning Association
FPES: Full personality Expression
FSUM: Föreningen för Sveriges Ungdomsmottagningar
FTM: Female to Male (trans)
FWCW: Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing conference 1995)
FYC: Family and Youth Concern
G
GAD: Gender And Development
GAN: Global Action Network
GF: Global Fund
GFATM: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
GGD: Guided Group Discussions
GHC: Global Health Conference
H
HAART: High Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy
HBC: Home Based Care
HBT: Homo- och bisexuella samt transpersoner
HBTQ: HBT (se ovan) och queer
HBTI: HBT (se ovan) och intersexuella
HDN : Health & Development Networks
HDI: Human Development Index
HEARD: Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division
HERA: Health, Action, Empowerment, Rights and Accountability
HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HPV: Human papillomavirus
HRV: Honour Related Violence
HRW: Human Rights Watch
HST: Health Systems Trust
I
IAC: International AIDS Conference
ICAD: Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development
ICASO: International Council of AIDS Services Organisations
ICCPR: International Convention on Civil and Political Rights
ICD: International Compilation of Diseases
ICOMP: International Council On Management of Population programmes
ICPD: International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994)
IDU: Injection Drug Users
IEC: Information, Education and Communication
IFGE: International foundation for Gender Education
IFPP: International Family Planning Perspectives
IFPRI: International Food Policy Research Institute
IGLHRC: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
IHCAR: Avdelningen för internationell hälsa på Karolinska Institutet
ILGA: International Lesbian and Gay Association
ILGYO: International Lesbian and Gay Youth Association
ILO: International Labor Organisation
IMAP: IPPF International Medical Advisory Panel
IMCI: Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
IMF: International Monetary Found
INGO: International NGO
INIS: Intersexuella I Sverige
IOM: International Organisation for Migration
IPPF: International Planned Parenthood Federation
IRRRAG: International Reproductive Rights research Action Group
ITP: International Training Programmes
IUCD: Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Device
IUD: Intra-Uterine Device
IWHC: International Women Health Coalition
J
JHU: Johns Hopkins University
JPO: Junior Programme Officer
K
KAB: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices
KAP: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices
KI: Karolinska Institutet
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LAFA: Landstinget förebygger aids (Enheten för sexualitet och hälsa Centrum för folkhälsa)
LBL: Landsforeningen for Bösser og lesbiske (Danmark)
LLH: Landsforeningen for lesbisk og homofil (Norge)
LFA: Logical Framework Approach
LGBT: Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender
M
MA: Member Association (inom IPPF)
MAIDS: Movement Against AIDS/STDs
MAMTA: Health Institute for Mother and Child
MCH: Maternal and Child Health
MDGs: Millennium Development Goals
MFA: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
MI: Male Involvement
MIS: Management Information System
MPRH: Men’s Participation in reproductive health
MR: Mänskliga Rättigheter
MSF: MÈdecins Sans FrontiËres (Läkare utan Gränser)
MSM: Men who have sex with Men
MTCT: Mother To Child Transmission
MTCTP: Mother-to-Child Transmission Prevention
MTF: Male to Female (trans)
MTW: Man to Woman (trans)
M&E: Monitoring and Evaluation
MAP: Males As Partners
MOU: Memorandum of Understanding
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NAC: National AIDS Council
NACP: National AIDS Control Programme
NACS: Nordic association of clinical sexology
NAF : National Abortion Federation (USA/Canada)
NGO: Non-Governmental Organisation
NIH: National Institutes of Health
NIKK: Nordiska institutet för kvinno och könsforskning
NMR: Nordiska Ministerrådet
NOW: National Organization for Women
NPC: National Population Commission
NTAC: National Transgender Advocacy Coalition
O
OAU: Organisation of African Unity
ODA: Overseas Development Aid
P
PAI: Population Action International
PATH: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
PEP: Post Exposure Prophylaxis
PEPFAR: President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (US)
PFA: Platform For Action
PID: Pelvis inflammatory Disease
PHE: Peer Health Educator
PHN: Population, Health and Nutrition
PLA: Participatory Learning for Action
PLHA: People Living With HIV/AIDS
PLWA: People Living With AIDS
PLWHA: People Living With HIV and AIDS
PMTCT: Preventing Mother to Child Transmission
POA: Program of Action
PPP: Pilot Project for Publishing
PPTCT: Preventing parent to child transmission
PTCT: Parent-to-child transmission
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REACH: Reproductive Education and Community Health
RFPA: Russian Family Planning Association
RFSL: Riksförbundet för homo-, bisexuellas och transpersoners rättigheter
RFSU: Riksförbundet för sexuell upplysning
RH: Reproductive Health
RHR: (Department of) Reprodutive Health and Research
RHC: Rural Health Centre
ROKS: Riksorganisationen för kvinnojourer och tjejjourer i Sverige
RR: Reproductive Rights
RTFS: Riksförbundet för Transexuella
RTI: Reproductive Tract Infection
RFA: Regional Facilitating Agents
RH: Reproductive Health
S
SCTG: Steering Committee Task Group
SCC: Safe, Sane & Consensual (BDSM-term)
SE: Sexuality Education
SETA: Sexsuaalinen tasavertaisuus (Finland)
SFG: Sveriges förenade Gaystudenter
SFS: Svensk förening för sexologi
SGBV: Sexual and Gender Based Violence
Sida: Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency
SIECUS: Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
SKR: Sveriges Kvinnojourers riksförbund
SODECO: Social Development Consultants
SOGI: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
SOU: Statens offentliga utredningar
SPANE: SIDA Partners on Adolescent Network
SR: Sexual Rights/Sexuella rättigheter
SRH: Sexual and Reproductive Health
SRHR: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
SRHRA: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Adolescents
STD: Sexually Transmitted Disease
STI: Sexually Transmitted Infection
SYFA: Safeguard Youth From AIDS
SWAP: Sector Wide Approach
T
TAC: Treatment Action Campaign
TFR: Total Fertility Rate
TNC: Trans National Corporation
TOT: Trainer of Trainers
U
UDHR: Universal declaration of Human Rights
UN: United Nations
UNAIDS: UN Programme on HIV/AIDS
UNCED: UN Conference on Environment and Development
UNDP: UN Development Programme
UNDCP: UN International Drug Control Programme
UNDESA: UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
UNECA: UN Economic Commission for Africa
UNESCO: UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
UNFPA: UN Population Fund
UNHCR: UN High Commissioner on Human Rights
UNGASS: UN General Assembly Special Session
UNICEF: UN International Children’s Fund
UNIFEM: UN Development Fund for Women
V
VAW: Violence Against Women
VCT: Voluntary counselling and testing
VCCT: Voluntary confidential counselling and testing services
VVS: Vulvärt Vestibulit Syndrom
VTP: Volyntary Termination of Pregnancy (abort)
W
WAD: World Aids Day
WAS: World Association for Sexual health
WFP: World Food Programme
WEDO: Women’s Environment & Development Organization
WEF: World Economic Forum
WHA: World Health Assembly
WHO: World Health Organisation
WID: Woman In Development
WOW: Women on waves
WTM: Woman to Man (trans)
WTO: World Trade Organization
W/S: Wet Sex
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YAM: Youth Action Movement
YFS: Youth Friendly Services
YMEP: Young Men as Equal Partners
YMSM: Young Men who have Sex with Men
YSRHR: Young people's SRHR
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ÖEK: Östeuropakommitten