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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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  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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  "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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