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Implementing the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work: An Education and Training Manual
2002How 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.DocumentExchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender
Royal Tropical Institute, 2006This 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.DocumentWomen in Prison and HIV
International Committee of the Red Cross, 2000Women 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.DocumentFactsheet: Access to Care, Treatment and Support
2006Gender 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.Document"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, 2005In 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.DocumentHIV Positive Women and Human Rights, Vision Paper 4
2004Many 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.DocumentPositive Speaking: Voices of Women Living with HIV/AIDS
United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003In 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.DocumentVisibility, Voices and Visions: a Call for Action from HIV Positive Women to Policy-makers
2004Drawing 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.DocumentHIV Positive Young Women, ICW Vision Paper 1
2004A 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.