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    Putting Sexuality (Back) into HIV/AIDS: Issues, Theory and Practice

    Routledge, 2007
    After more than 20 years of programming and activism aimed at stemming the sexual transmission of HIV, the epidemic continues to grow worldwide. This paper argues that one of the reasons for the limited success of HIV prevention initiatives is the marginalisation of sexuality in HIV and AIDS programming.
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    Gender-Based Violence, Relationship Power, and Risk of HIV Infection in Women Attending Antenatal Clinics in South Africa

    Gender Advocacy Programme, South Africa, 2004
    Gender-based violence and gender inequality are increasingly cited as important determinants of women's HIV risk; yet empirical research on possible connections remains limited. This report presents findings of a cross-sectional study of 1366 at four health centres in Soweto, South Africa, who accepted routine antenatal HIV testing.
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    Relationships and Sex: A Guide for Women with HIV

    Terrence Higgins Trust, 2005
    Being HIV positive can often make you feel that it's just too difficult to have an intimate relationship with anyone. But you are the same person you were before you became HIV positive; your ability to form relationships need not alter because of HIV.
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    Women's Treatment Literacy Toolkit

    Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information and Dissemination Service, 2005
    In Southern Africa, there are 13 women living with HIV for every 10 infected men, and this gap continues to widen.
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    HIV, AIDS and Women who Have Sex with Women

    SIDAnet - Lusophone Association, 2002
    Although sex between women is considered lower risk than heterosexual sex, it can still transmit HIV. Women who have sex with women (WSW) can reduce the risk of contracting HIV by being aware of their own HIV status and revealing it to their partner.
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    Sex, Life and the Female Condom: Some Views of HIV Positive Women

    Reproductive Health Matters, 2006
    This paper offers insights into the experiences of HIV positive women with the female condom, drawing on the responses of 18 ICW members to an email survey conducted in 2005. Major reported barriers to female condom use included cost and sporadic or limited access. All respondents talked about needing to negotiate the use of female condoms with their male sex partners.
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    Fact Sheet - Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights

    2006
    This short fact-sheet frames key issues and advocacy messages based on the findings of project work by ICW on the sexual and reproductive rights of HIV positive women.
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    Putting Women at the Centre: Critical Challenges in Effective Responses to HIV/AIDS

    Gender AIDS Forum, 2003
    Unequal power relations between men and women in South Africa at personal, relationship, household, community and societal levels and are key in the deepening impact of HIV and AIDS in the region. Policies exist to improve the position of women and girls, yet the realities of most women's lives have not improved significantly. The majority of HIV infections occur sexually.
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    "Man Hunt Intimacy: Man Clean Bathroom": Women, Sexual Pleasure, Gender Violence and HIV

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Men's contribution - or lack of it - to household tasks and expenditure and the daily burden of running a home is closely linked to sexual dissatisfaction, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. Men seek comfort by having sex with other women, and their wives also turn to other men for sex in order to buy school clothes for their children or food for the daily meal.
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    Reproductive Choice and Women Living with HIV/AIDS

    IPAS, 2002
    Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) has become a major element of HIV/AIDS programmes. One unfortunate consequence of this is that women living with HIV/AIDS have been approached as 'vectors of HIV transmission'. Often they experience pressure from health care providers not to become pregnant.

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