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    Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of People Living with HIV

    Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2006
    As the prospects for people living with HIV have improved worldwide, AIDS activists and the global public health community have increased their focus on quality-of-life issues as well as length-of-life issues. Regardless of HIV status, the ability to express one's sexuality and the desire to experience parenthood are, for many, central to what it means to be human.
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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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    Advocacy Tool - Access to Care, Treatment and Support for Women Living with HIV and AIDS in Swaziland

    2006
    Experience shows that the active involvement of HIV positive women at all levels of decision-making, including policy formulation, is essential to overcoming gendered barriers to accessing HIV/AIDS treatment, care and support. Accordingly, POLICY collaborated with ICW to pilot test a set of approaches for identifying and addressing gendered barriers to treatment in Swaziland.
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    Factsheet: Access to Care, Treatment and Support

    2006
    Gender inequalities can constrain HIV positive women's access to care, treatment and support as well as their ability to use treatment, information and advice to improve the quality of their lives. This short fact-sheet identifies a range of barriers faced by HIV positive women in accessing care, treatment and support.
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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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    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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    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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