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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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    "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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    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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    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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    Sweden's International Policy on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

    Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006
    This new policy provides the basis of the Swedish government's position on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and of the bilateral, multilateral and operational work that Sweden carries out in this area in international contexts. Sweden will focus on central issues that hamper results in SHRH work, such as poverty and lack of information and knowledge.

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