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Advocates for Youth — Established in 1980 as the Center for Population Options, Advocates for Youth champions efforts to help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates believes it can best serve the field by boldly advocating for a more positive and realistic approach to adolescent sexual health.

Archive for Sexology — Among other services, this site provides free online access to sexual health curriculum in 11 languages.

Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice — At Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ), we work toward the day when all peoplehave the power and resources to make healthy decisions about our gender, bodies and sexuality for ourselves, our families and our communities.

Avert — AVERT is an international HIV and AIDS charity, based in the UK, working to avert HIV and AIDS worldwide, through education, treatment and care.

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CARE

Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) — The Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) is a U.S.-based nongovernmental organization whose mission is to ensure that U.S. international policies and programs promote sexual and reproductive health within a human rights framework of women and girls worldwide. We envision a world where sexual and reproductive health and rights are universally recognized and sexual and reproductive health care is accessible and available to all.

Center for Development & Population Activities

Center for Sexual Health Promotion — Our Center is a collaborative of sexual health scholars from across the campuses of Indiana University and strategic partner academic institutions around the globe who, in partnership with practitioners from community-based health organizations, government and industry, work toward advancing the field of sexual health through our research, education and training initiatives. At our core is a commitment to the active engagement of graduate students in our work; we view this as essential to growing the next generation of sexual health scholars and practitioners.

CREA (Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action) — CREA is a feminist human rights organization based in the global South and led by women from the global South. CREA promotes, protects, and advances women’s human rights and the sexual rights of all people by building leadership capacities; strengthening organizations and social movements; increasing access to new information, knowledge, and resources; and creating enabling social and policy environments.

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DKT International — Since 1989, the nonprofit organization DKT International has been promoting family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention through social marketing in the developing world.

Durex Network — The Durex Network is committed to promoting responsible sex and reproductive healthcare and raising awareness of the safer sex message worldwide through the development and support of sexual health initiatives.

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Engender Health

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Gender Across Borders — Gender Across Borders (GAB) is an international feminist community where issues of gender, race, sexuality, and class are discussed and critically examined. We embrace people of all backgrounds to come together to voice and progress positive gender relations worldwide.

Global AIDS Alliance

Global Fund for Women

Guttmacher Institute — The Guttmacher Institute advances sexual and reproductive health worldwide through an interrelated program of social science research, public education and policy analysis. For nearly four decades, Guttmacher has demonstrated that scientific evidence — when reliably collected and analyzed, compellingly presented and systematically disseminated — can make a difference in policies, programs and medical practice.

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Healthy Youth Alliance — This alliance in Washington State was crucial in the development and passing of the 2008 Healthy Youth Act which requires that all sexuality education be “medically and scientifically accurate, age-appropriate, unbiased, and comprehensive.” Webpage includes links to Law & Policy, Research, and Curricula.

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International Academy of Sex Research — The International Academy of Sex Research is a scientific society whose objectives are the promotion of high standards of research and scholarship in the field of sexual behavior by fostering communication among scholars engaged in such research. IASR promotes the dissemination of research through its annual meeting and publication of the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.

International Planned Parenthood Federation — IPPF is a global service provider and a leading advocate of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. See also: Planned Parenthood Federation of America

International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health — (ISSWSH) — is a multidisciplinary, academic, and scientific organization whose purposes are: To provide opportunities for communication among scholars, researchers, and practitioners about women’s sexual function and sexual experience, To support the highest standards of ethics and professionalism in research, education, and clinical practice of women’s sexuality, and To provide the public with accurate information about women’s sexuality and sexual health.

International Women’s Health Coalition — (IWHC) — leads global and local actions to secure every woman’s right to a just and healthy life. We are creating a world where women are free from discrimination, sexual coercion and violence, and have access to health services and information. We promote and protect the sexual and reproductive rights and health (SRRH) of all women and young people, particularly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, by helping to develop effective health and population policies, programs, and funding.

Institute of Women’s Policy Research — (IWPR) — conducts rigorous research and disseminates its findings to address the needs of women, promote public dialogue, and strengthen families, communities, and societies.

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Kinsey Institute — The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University promotes interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction.

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National Coalition to Support Sexuality Education — The National Coalition to Support Sexuality Education (NCSSE) consists of over 140 national organizations committed to medically accurate, age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education for all children and youth in the United States.

National Sexuality Resource Center — (NSRC) — creates content, leads trainings, and guides the development of a new sexuality movement, founded on the unique concept of sexual literacy—the positive, integrated, and holistic view of sexuality from a social justice perspective. NSRC is a sponsor of:  Summer Institute on Sexuality & Campus Coalition for Sexual Literacy

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Open Society Institute — (Public Health Program, Sexual Health and Rights) — The Sexual Health and Rights Project aims to advance the human rights—including access to quality health care—of people who are marginalized because of their sexual practices, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

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Pathfinder International –Pathfinder International’s mission is to ensure that people everywhere have the right and opportunity to live a healthy reproductive life.

PepFar Watch — PEPFARWatch.org, an initiative of the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), is an information clearinghouse and advocacy tool on the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), with particular emphasis on prevention of sexual transmission of HIV.  This website provides an up-to-date and accurate source of information and analysis on U.S. global HIV/AIDS policies and funding, so that advocates can ensure U.S. foreign policy promotes evidence-based practices and human rights.

Prevention Now — Another initiative of the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), advocating for increasing U.S. investment in the procurement, distribution, and programming of female condoms within and across U.S. international AIDS and family planning programs.

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Religious Institute — Founded in 2001, the Religious Institute is a multifaith organization dedicated to advocating for sexual health, education and justice in faith communities and society.

RH Reality Check — RH Reality Check is an online community and publication serving individuals and organizations committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights.

RFSU — (the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education) was founded in 1933. Today it is the leading organisation in Sweden in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). RFSU has no party political or religious affiliation.
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SANGRAM — A grassroots HIV/AIDS organization in India. SANGRAM started its work with women in prostitution and sex work from South Maharashtra and North Karnataka in 1992 and has since fanned out among diverse populations. SANGRAM is based in Sangli district, which has the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS in Maharashtra after Mumbai.

Sexual Rights Initiative

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States — (SIECUS)-the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States- was founded in 1964 to provide education and information about sexuality and sexual and reproductive health.

Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality — (SSSS) is an international organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about sexuality. It is the oldest organization of professionals interested in the study of sexuality in the United States. SSSS brings together an interdisciplinary group of professionals who believe in the importance of both the production of quality research and the clinical, educational, and social applications of research related to all aspects of sexuality.

Sonke  Gender Justice Network — Sonke Gender Justice Network works across Africa to strengthen government, civil society and citizen capacity to support men and boys to take action to: promote gender equality, prevent domestic and sexual violence, and reduce the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS. In this way the organisation contributes to the development of societies in which men, women, youth and children can enjoy equitable, healthy and happy relationships that contribute to the development of just and democratic societies.

Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society — The Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society at the Graduate School of Social Sciences , Universiteit van Amsterdam, is an intensive four-week summer programme, which focuses on the study of sexuality across cultures and is taught by an international faculty team.

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WAS –World Association for Sexual Health