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    Advocacy Training by the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS

    2005
    The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS joined forces with the POLICY project with the aim of developing an advocacy agenda on sexual and reproductive health rights, and access to care, treatment, and support for women living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Swaziland.
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    Participation and Policy Making: Our Rights, ICW Vision Paper 5

    2004
    The best way to challenge stigma and discrimination towards women living with HIV and AIDS is to promote solidarity with, and involvement of, HIV positive people - including women - in all levels of decision making. Although there is a lot of rhetoric about challenging the stigma of HIV, few organisations take this obvious step.
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    Implementing the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work: An Education and Training Manual

    2002
    How do gender roles and relations affect the world of work, and what action can be taken in the workplace to promote equality and empower women in the fight against HIV/AIDS? Women's lower status in society and constraints on their access to income and resources make them more vulnerable to the economic impact of HIV/AIDS.
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    Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2006
    This issue of the quarterly magazine Exchange focuses on the pressing concerns faced by women living with HIV and AIDS globally. It criticises sexual and reproductive health programmes and policies for failing to recognise the complexity of women's lives and the contexts in which their sexual and reproductive choices are situated.
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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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    "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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    HIV Positive Women and Human Rights, Vision Paper 4

    2004
    Many countries have signed up to international human rights frameworks that oblige them to respect and protect the rights of all people regardless of HIV status and gender. Despite this, HIV positive women are often subject to degrading and discriminatory treatment, causing blame, isolation and shame, and leading to restricted freedom of choice.
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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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    Gender and Sexuality: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    Mobilising around sexuality is not new. Activists and practitioners have long been working on issues such as HIV/AIDS; sexual violence; abortion; sex work; and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. What is new is the integrated, affirmative approach to sexuality which is increasingly being adopted.

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