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    Sex, Life and the Female Condom: Some Views of HIV Positive Women

    Reproductive Health Matters, 2006
    This paper offers insights into the experiences of HIV positive women with the female condom, drawing on the responses of 18 ICW members to an email survey conducted in 2005. Major reported barriers to female condom use included cost and sporadic or limited access. All respondents talked about needing to negotiate the use of female condoms with their male sex partners.
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    Fact Sheet - Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights

    2006
    This short fact-sheet frames key issues and advocacy messages based on the findings of project work by ICW on the sexual and reproductive rights of HIV positive women.
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    Sexual and Reproductive Health of HIV Positive Women and Adolescent Girls: A Dialogue on Rights, Policies and Services, Global Electronic Forum, Report on Results

    United Nations Population Fund, 2006
    How have international human rights documents or advocacy efforts facilitated HIV positive women's access to prevention, treatment and care services, if at all? How can we advocate for stronger enforcement of positive women's human rights?
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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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    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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    Working Positively - A Guide for NGOs Managing HIV/AIDS in the Workplace

    UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development, 2003
    HIV and AIDS are most prevalent in adults in their productive prime. As a result, addressing HIV/AIDS in the workplace is becoming a priority for governments, commercial organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). However, gender differentials need to be taken into account when developing HIV/AIDS workplace strategies.
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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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