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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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  Women, Men, and Gun Violence: Options for Action

  Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2005

  Adopting a gender perspective of how gun violence is viewed and perceived is crucial to designing and implementing strategies to reduce the widespread human security impacts it produces. We can no longer afford to remain in the dark about the complexities of how men and women view, use, and misuse guns, and how those attitudes and behaviours translate into risks and vulnerabilities.
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  Reducing the Burden of HIV and AIDS Care on Women and Girls

  Voluntary Services Overseas, 2006

  Community and home-based care, delivered with little support from the public health system, is currently the key response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic globally. Due to traditional gender norms and unequal gender relations, it is women and girls who generally assume primary responsibility for providing this care, whilst possibly being HIV-positive, and often needing care themselves.
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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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  Taking the GAP Media Toolkit: A Media Handbook for NGOs and CBOs - How to Get Media Attention and Reach Audiences with a Message

  Norwegian Council for Africa, 1999

  Messages in the media can pressurise decision-makers to be accountable. Since South Africa's first democratic elections, the media have undergone major transformations. While this process has been uneven, it has opened up opportunities for new voices to be heard.
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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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  Workshop on Gender and Sustainability in Community Radio

  Gender Advocacy Programme, South Africa, 2000

  The Gender Advocacy Programme (GAP) hosted a seminar on 'Gender and Sustainability in Community Radio' with a view to using the radio to advance the empowerment of women. This supposition is based on GAP's work with women in poor communities which highlighted that many women are avid listeners of community radio in particular, even though some found the idea of speaking on radio intimidating.

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