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    Women Sex-workers and HIV

    Act-Up Paris, 2005
    Act up-Paris is an activist and a lobby group based in Paris. For them fighting AIDS also means fighting all kinds of discrimination, putting pressure on government and raising public awareness at the same time. This online publication includes an article on access to care and prevention for female HIV-positive sex-workers.
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    Reproductive Decisions and Pregnancy in Women Living with HIV/AIDS. Recommendations for Health Providers

    Fundacion para Estudio e Investigacion de la Mujer, 2004
    Often HIV positive women do not have access to information on their reproductive rights, whether or not they want to have children. It is vital that health services do not discriminate, and support them in making informed choices. This 4-pager aims to help health staff to provide HIV positive women with such information.
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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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    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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    Factsheet: Access to Care, Treatment and Support

    2006
    Gender 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.
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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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    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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    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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    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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