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Since the late 1970s, Sonia Corrêa has been involved in research and advocacy activities related to gender equality, health, and sexuality. Between 1992 and 2009, she was the research coordinator for sexual and reproductive health and rights at DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New era), a Global South feminist network, of which she is presently a board member. Since 2002 she is a research associate at the Brazilian Interdisciplinary Association for AIDS, in Rio de Janeiro. In ABIA, with Richard Parker, she co-chairs the Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW) program, a global forum comprised of researchers and activists engaged in the analyses of global trends in sexuality related policy and politics. She has published extensively in Portuguese and English, including Population and Reproductive Rights: Feminist Perspectives from the South (Zed Books, 1994), and Sexuality, Health and Human Rights co-authored with Richard Parker and Rosalind Petchesky (Routledge, 2008).