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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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    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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    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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    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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    HIV Positive Young Women, ICW Vision Paper 1

    2004
    A 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.
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    Online Library Documenting LGBT Human Rights Abuses Worldwide (The Asylum Documentation Programme)

    International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2006
    The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has launched an online library to support worldwide claims for political asylum made by people who fear persecution based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV/AIDS status. This library documents human rights abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and people living with HIV/AIDS.
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    The Main Thread Handbook on Sexuality and Personal Relationships among Young People

    Stockholm County Council Public Health Department, 2005
    The Main Thread is a tool for anyone wanting to work on preventing HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unwanted pregnancy among young people. It targets teachers, health and medical services staff, youth leaders and peer educators who work with young people aged 13 to 19 at schools, youth clubs and youth clinics.
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    Information Resources

    Terrence Higgins Trust, 2006
    The UK-based Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) provides a range of information resources on how to lead a happy and safe sex life, targeted at gay men specifically, which can be freely downloaded from their website.
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    A Positive Women's Survival Kit

    1999
    The sexual desires and rights to pleasure of HIV-positive women are often totally ignored. As a result, information which addresses the specific needs of women living with HIV is scarce. A Positive Woman's Survival Kit has been produced by and for women living with HIV/AIDS from all over the world.
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    Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women

    Macmillan Education Ltd, London and Oxford, 1997
    This book was developed with the help of community-based health workers in more than 30 countries to help women care for their own health needs and to help community health workers to meet women's health needs.

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