Short Summary | ||
Title | Women and Girls Living with HIV/AIDS: Overview and Annotated Bibliography | |
Author | Esplen, E. and The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) | |
Publication Date | February 2007 | |
Publisher | BRIDGE | |
Volume | BRIDGE Bibliographies | |
Series | No. 18 | |
Donor | Irish Aid | |
Short Summary | HIV/AIDS is both driven by and entrenches gender
inequality, leaving women more vulnerable than men to its impact. This
report - consisting of an overview, annotated bibliography, and contacts
section - considers the specific challenges faced by women and girls who
are living with HIV and AIDS. Women's social, economic, and legal
disadvantage is exacerbated by a positive HIV status, and vice versa.
Violations of women's social, economic, and legal rights in turn obstruct
their ability to seek care, treatment and support, and to realise their
sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). In many contexts, social
and cultural values surrounding the importance of female purity mean that
women and girls living with HIV and AIDS are also subject to greater
discrimination than men. Sex workers, drug users, prisoners and migrants
may face additional stigma. Women and girls living with HIV/AIDS are
calling for recognition of their fundamental human rights, including their
SRHR and the right to decide whether or not to have children; their
meaningful involvement at all stages of the policy-making process; and
government provision of accessible and equitable healthcare. The initial version of the bibliography does not have a Contacts section. This will be available from February 15th, 2007 | |
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