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African American Sexual and Reproductive Health Project
Latino Sexual and Reproductive Health Project
Bangladesh Sexual and Reproductive Health Project
Ugandan Sexual and Reproductive Health Project
Haiti Environmental-Agricultural and Human Rights Project
Biographical Statement
Since 1986, Kathleen Cash, Ed.D. has developed and conducted HIV/AIDS integrated research and prevention programs primarily for women and youth in Thailand, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Haiti, Uganda and Los Angeles. Prior to that, she worked in education and women's reproductive and sexual health in Ethiopia, Indonesia, Thailand, Malawi, Bangladesh, and the United States. Her work in HIV/AIDS began in 1991 in Thailand as a Women and AIDS Research Project through the International Center for Research on Women, Washington DC. The methodologies she employed for the HIV/AIDS projects described on this website are currently being adapted to an environmental-agricultural and human rights program in Haiti. She has received two Fulbright grants: one in 1988 to Thailand as a lecturer in the Department of Non-Formal Education at Chiang Mai University and the other in 2004 to Uganda as an HIV/AIDS research fellow. In Uganda, her research focused on the relationship between domestic and sexual violence and the transmission of HIV/AIDS. She recently received a Radcliffe Institute Research Fellowship for 2007-2008.
PUBLICATIONS
The Power to Speak, The Power to Prevent: A Gender Specific Holistic Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention among African American Women which Integrates Ethnography with a Pedagogy of Storytelling, Dialogue and Social Negotiation submitted for publication
March, 2006
Sexual Health for Rural Bangladesh Youth with Hashima-E-Nasreen, Sharful Islam Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Mushtaque R. Chowdhury and Sadia Chowdhury 2001 in "Sexual Health Exchange." The Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam.
Without Sex Education: Understanding the Social and Sexual Vulnerabilities of Rural Bengali Youth with Hashima-E-Nasreen, Ayesha Aziz, Abbas Bhuiya, Mustaque Chowdhury, Sadia Chowdhury and SM Masud Ahmed, Sex Education. Vol 1., No. 3, 2001
Telling Them Their Own Stories: Legitimizing Sexual and Reproductive Health Education in Rural Bangladesh with Md. Sharful Khan, Hashima-E-Nasreen, Abbas Bhuiya, Sadia Chowdhury and Mushtaque Chowdhury. Sex Education, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2001.
Understanding the Sexual and Psychosocial Aspects of HIV/AIDS Prevention for Northern Thai Single Adolescent Migratory Women Workers with Bupa Anansuchatkul and Wantana Busayawong. 1999. Applied Psychology: An International Review. 48 (2).
AIDS Prevention through Peer Education for Northern Thai Single Female and Male Migratory Factory Workers with Jaratbhan Sanguansermsri, Wantana Busayawong, Porntip Chuamanochan. 1997. Women and AIDS Research Program, Phase II. Research Report Series,
No. 5. International Center for Research on Women, Washington, D.C..
On Your Own: A Safety Handbook for Women Travelers with Sairudee Vorakitphokatorn. 1997. The Japanese Foundation for AIDS.
Women Educating Women for HIV/AIDS Prevention. 1996. Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS, An International Perspective, Eds. Lynellyn Long and Maxine Ankrah, Columbia University Press, New York.
Experimental Educational Interventions for the Prevention of AIDS Among Northern Thai Single Migratory Women Factory Workers with Bupa Anasuchatkul and Wantana Busayawong. 1995. Women and AIDS Research Program, Phase I. Research Report Series, No. 9, International
Center for Research on Women, Washington, D.C.
AIDS Prevention Peer Education for Thai Women Workers. 1995. Challenges. International Planned Parenthood Federation, London.
AIDS: Managing the Prevention of AIDS and the Support of People and Families with AIDS. 1993. Khmer Mental Health Training Manual. Harvard School of Public Health and Indochinese
Psychiatry Clinic, Brighton, Mass.
Peer Education Reaches Young Women Factory Workers in Thailand. 1993. AIDSCaptions. Family Health International, Vol. 1, No. 1. Arlington, Va.
Partners for Health, Vol. 1-5. 1988. Health Communications Project, Malawi. Academy for Educational Development, Washington, D.C.