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  Beyond Gender Mainstreaming: Experiences from South Africa

  Gender AIDS Forum, 2004

  There are growing expressions of commitment to addressing the gender dimensions of HIV/AIDS. However, concerted action at policy and practice levels is still needed. The effectiveness of the response to HIV and AIDS depends on our ability to deal with the many inequalities that drive the epidemics.
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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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  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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  Working Positively - A Guide for NGOs Managing HIV/AIDS in the Workplace

  UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development, 2003

  HIV and AIDS are most prevalent in adults in their productive prime. As a result, addressing HIV/AIDS in the workplace is becoming a priority for governments, commercial organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). However, gender differentials need to be taken into account when developing HIV/AIDS workplace strategies.
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  HIV Positive Women, Poverty and Gender Inequality, ICW vision paper 3

  2004

  Gender inequality and poverty not only increase the risk of HIV but also leave women more vulnerable than men to its impact. An HIV positive diagnosis compounds the problems women face in finding and keeping work. Many women, including HIV positive women, work in the informal sector.
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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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  Fact Sheet - Violence Against HIV Positive Women

  2006

  How do HIV/AIDS and other public services, policies and programmes address issues of violence against women (VAW)? How do services that deal with violence address the issues of women who are HIV positive? This fact sheet considers the connections between violence and gender inequalities for women living with HIV and AIDS.
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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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  Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women and Adolescent Girls Living with HIV: Research Report on Qualitative Findings from Brazil, Ethiopia and the Ukraine

  United Nations Population Fund, 2006

  Despite the growing magnitude of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, health interventions that focus on providing care and treatment for HIV positive women have come at a slow pace. Most women do not know their HIV status until they become pregnant and are tested as a part of antenatal care.
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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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