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    Women in Prison and HIV

    International Committee of the Red Cross, 2000
    Women prisoners often come from marginalised, socially deprived and often high-risk backgrounds for HIV. Many of them may already be infected with HIV on entering prison. This paper argues that prison medical care should be tailored to the special needs of women in prison, and be equipped and staffed to recognise and manage the diseases that facilitate HIV transmission or accompany AIDS.
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    Access to care, treatment and support, ICW vision paper 2

    2004
    Antiretroviral treatment (ART) has turned HIV into a more manageable chronic condition which may no longer be a death sentence. However, treatment is not just about providing ART; care and support are also vitally important. This paper, one of five vision papers produced by ICW, identifies barriers to women's access to treatment. The cost of ART is a major obstacle.
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    "You Don't Belong Here": Fear, Blame and Shame Around HIV & AIDS, Report from the VSO-RAISA Regional Conference, Pretoria, South Africa, October 2005

    Voluntary Services Overseas, 2005
    In October 2005, delegates from 10 countries gathered in Pretoria, South Africa, for a three-day VSO-RAISA regional conference on tackling the stigma and discrimination experienced by people living with HIV and AIDS. That men and women experience stigma differently was widely documented by the conference participants.
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    Positive Speaking: Voices of Women Living with HIV/AIDS

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003
    In 2002, Positive Women's Network (PWN+) Chennai, in collaboration with UNAIDS and UNIFEM, organised a national consultation on women living with HIV/AIDS. The consultation identified the need to document human rights violations against HIV positive women as an important tool for policy advocacy.
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    "Oh! This One is Infected!" Women, HIV and Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region, Expert meeting on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Asia-Pacific, Bankok, 23-24 March 2004

    2004
    Women under 20 years old are up to ten times more vulnerable to HIV infection than men. They are also significantly more likely to experience AIDS-related discrimination after a positive diagnosis. Women are often blamed for bringing HIV into the family and may be subjected to violence by their spouse or in-laws.
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    Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis

    United Nations Population Fund, 2004
    Rising rates of HIV infection among women are a major cause for concern. Not only are girls and women highly susceptible to HIV infection - both biologically and as a result of gender inequality and discrimination - they are also less able to access treatment than men.
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    Visibility, Voices and Visions: a Call for Action from HIV Positive Women to Policy-makers

    2004
    Drawing on evidence from ICW research, training and workshops, this document highlights the challenges that HIV positive women face on receiving a positive HIV diagnosis. These include fear about the consequences of disclosure; coping with discrimination at work; constraints on access to health services; and having to decide whether or not to have children.
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    HIV Positive Young Women, ICW Vision Paper 1

    2004
    A group of young HIV positive women from Eastern and Southern Africa met in 2004 to develop a common advocacy agenda. One of their major concerns was that young women living with HIV and AIDS are unable to access their sexual and reproductive rights, such as the right to have children, the right to safe abortion, and the right not to be forced into termination of pregnancy or sterilisation.
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    Position statement: injecting drug users and access to HIV treatment

    International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, 2005
    In 2005, there were an estimated 13.2 million injecting drug users worldwide, 80% of whom live in developing and transitional countries.
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    Towards a comprehensive approach of sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict: a practical guide for programme officers

    Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, 2003
    For some years, awareness about the need for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for women in situations of war and armed conflict has been growing. As a result, humanitarian aid programmes are paying more and more attention to the provision of SRH services in the field, but a more holistic and integrated approach to SRH is often still lacking.

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