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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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  Sexual and Reproductive Health for HIV-Positive Women and Adolescent Girls: Manual for Trainers and Programme Managers

  2006

  Sexual and reproductive rights apply to all individuals regardless of HIV status. Yet more often than not, the rights of HIV positive women and adolescent girls are not recognised or given priority. Health workers need both training and support to eliminate stigma and discrimination towards women living with HIV and to provide quality safe and compassionate care to HIV positive women.
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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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  Sexual and Reproductive Health of HIV Positive Women and Adolescent Girls: A Dialogue on Rights, Policies and Services, Global Electronic Forum, Report on Results

  United Nations Population Fund, 2006

  How have international human rights documents or advocacy efforts facilitated HIV positive women's access to prevention, treatment and care services, if at all? How can we advocate for stronger enforcement of positive women's human rights?
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  Advocacy Tool: the Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health of HIV Positive Women in South Africa

  2006

  South Africa is said to be the country with the highest total number of people living with HIV and AIDS. In 2004, it was estimated that 50.75% of those infected between the ages of 15-49 years were women, yet advocacy work had revealed that HIV positive women in South Africa were experiencing considerable barriers in accessing services at the family, community and national levels.
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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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