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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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    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 Tool: the Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health of HIV Positive Women in South Africa

    2006
    South Africa is said to be the country with the highest total number of people living with HIV and AIDS. In 2004, it was estimated that 50.75% of those infected between the ages of 15-49 years were women, yet advocacy work had revealed that HIV positive women in South Africa were experiencing considerable barriers in accessing services at the family, community and national levels.
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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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    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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    Beyond Gender Mainstreaming: Experiences from South Africa

    Gender AIDS Forum, 2004
    There are growing expressions of commitment to addressing the gender dimensions of HIV/AIDS. However, concerted action at policy and practice levels is still needed. The effectiveness of the response to HIV and AIDS depends on our ability to deal with the many inequalities that drive the epidemics.

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