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Gender
Ensuring Equitable Access to Antiretroviral Treatment for Women (2004)
"This policy brief identifies actions needed to address the gender dimensions of equity in access to ART. To adequately address gender issues in the scale up of ART, action is required in four areas: Development of a supportive policy environment; Strengthening health systems to make them more responsive to the specific needs of women and men; Promotion of programs that overcome obstacles to equitable access; and Development of benchmarks and indicators to measure progress."
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HIV Prevention and Women's Rights: Working for One Means Working for Both
"For women in developing countries fundamental legal reforms are necessary to fight the AIDS epidemic. Women who lack basic human rights - the right to control their own bodies, to choose their own partner, or to inherit property - are vulnerable to infection. A Kenyan lawyer and feminist examines how social pressures from the HIV/AIDS epidemic are prompting policy-makers to reconsider reforms of laws that discriminate against women."
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ICW Vision Paper 1: HIV positive young women (2004)
Sets out key advocacy priorities regarding HIV/AIDS and young women as well as fundamental sexual and reproductive health rights of HIV positive women. Includes a section on access to ART and treatment.
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ICW Vision Paper 2: Access to care, treatment and support (ACTS) (2004)
Outlines barriers to women's access to treatment, such as cost and lack of research on women and ART. Also provides examples of work on care, treatment and support, and outlines recommended actions to improve women's access to care, treatment and support.
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ICW Vision Paper 3: HIV positive women, poverty and gender inequality (2004)
Examines how gender inequality and poverty increase women's risk of HIV and leave women more vulnerable than men to its impact. Provides examples of work on gender equality and poverty and outlines recommended actions to help HIV positive women and their families to thrive.
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ICW Vision Paper 4: HIV positive women and human rights (2004)
Describes violations of reproductive rights faced by HIV positive women and explains what human rights are. Also highlights work by international organizations on recognition and respect for the rights of HIV positive women and recommends action to improve human rights for HIV positive women.
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ICW Vision Paper 5: Participation and policy making: our rights (2004)
Discusses the importance of including HIV positive women in decision-making and policy development and explains how your organization can better involve HIV positive women. Also makes a call to policymakers to support the work of HIV and women's rights group through some recommended actions and highlights the work of several international organizations on inclusion of HIV positive women.
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Integrating Gender Into HIV/AIDS Programmes (2003)
The effects of HIV/AIDS vary according to gender in terms of individual's exposure to infection, access to care, support and treatment, and the ability to deal when infected. This paper cites examples from around the world, where gender aspects have been incorporated in their projects. These examples are expected to provide lessons learned while developing national HIV/AIDS guidelines for national program managers so that they can integrate gender issues in their HIV/AIDS programs.
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Mainstreaming Gender in the Response to AIDS in Southern Africa: A guide for the integration of gender issues into the work of AIDS service organizations (2001)
"This manual provides the conceptual basis and offers practical hints to facilitate effective integration of gender issues into policies and programs. It offers knowledge, information, tools and instruments that will be useful in the day-to-day work of Aids Service Organizations. It discusses the relevance of considering gender issues at different programming levels and stages"
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Positive Women: Voices and Choices - Zimbabwe Report (2002)
"Provides information that HIV positive women and AIDS service organizations could use in advocacy for changes in policies and practices that would improve the reproductive and sexual health choices and services available to women living with HIV and AIDS. This report presents the findings from Zimbabwe, the first country involved in this research."
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Women and AIDS Care: Coping with "Triple Jeopardy"
This article explains how, as individuals, women risk infection because of biological, social and economic forces that make women especially vulnerable to HIV. As mothers, they can infect their children with the virus. As society's traditional caregiver, they are expected to care for husbands and other family members and find a way to support their families at the same time. Women need expanded care and support and this article discusses these needs.
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Women's Human Rights related to Health-care Services in the Context of HIV/AIDS (2004)
This paper addresses the human rights issues that people, especially women and girls in developing countries, face in seeking HIV/AIDS-related health care. It begins by examining the impact of HIV/AIDS on women and girls, including their vulnerability to infection and to discrimination after infection as well as the increased burdens women and girls face in caring for family members who fall ill. The paper then explains the international response to HIV/AIDS. The final section of the paper discusses legal issues central to HIV/AIDS health-care services- VCT, medical confidentiality, HIV/AIDS-related discrimination in health-care services and the right to treatment - drawing on a sample of case law from English-speaking jurisdictions.
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