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  Women in Prison and HIV

  International Committee of the Red Cross, 2000

  Women prisoners often come from marginalised, socially deprived and often high-risk backgrounds for HIV. Many of them may already be infected with HIV on entering prison. This paper argues that prison medical care should be tailored to the special needs of women in prison, and be equipped and staffed to recognise and manage the diseases that facilitate HIV transmission or accompany AIDS.
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  Advocacy Tool - Access to Care, Treatment and Support for Women Living with HIV and AIDS in Swaziland

  2006

  Experience shows that the active involvement of HIV positive women at all levels of decision-making, including policy formulation, is essential to overcoming gendered barriers to accessing HIV/AIDS treatment, care and support. Accordingly, POLICY collaborated with ICW to pilot test a set of approaches for identifying and addressing gendered barriers to treatment in Swaziland.
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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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  Access to care, treatment and support, ICW vision paper 2

  2004

  Antiretroviral treatment (ART) has turned HIV into a more manageable chronic condition which may no longer be a death sentence. However, treatment is not just about providing ART; care and support are also vitally important. This paper, one of five vision papers produced by ICW, identifies barriers to women's access to treatment. The cost of ART is a major obstacle.
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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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  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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  "Oh! This One is Infected!" Women, HIV and Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region, Expert meeting on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Asia-Pacific, Bankok, 23-24 March 2004

  2004

  Women under 20 years old are up to ten times more vulnerable to HIV infection than men. They are also significantly more likely to experience AIDS-related discrimination after a positive diagnosis. Women are often blamed for bringing HIV into the family and may be subjected to violence by their spouse or in-laws.
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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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  Visibility, Voices and Visions: a Call for Action from HIV Positive Women to Policy-makers

  2004

  Drawing on evidence from ICW research, training and workshops, this document highlights the challenges that HIV positive women face on receiving a positive HIV diagnosis. These include fear about the consequences of disclosure; coping with discrimination at work; constraints on access to health services; and having to decide whether or not to have children.

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