Sexual Violence and HIV
Sexual violence is a public health issue that has both psychological and physical implications for HIV prevention, treatment and care. Sexual violence includes rape, forced prostitution and other coerced sexual activity. This page brings together research and best practice for addressing the issue of sexual violence and HIV.
Statement
to the Fifty-first session of the Commission on the Status of
Women
26 February - 9 March 2007 New York This is a ...
Triangle
of Risk: Urban American Indian Women’s Sexual Trauma, Injection Drug Use, and
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AIDS and Behavior, March 2004, Volume
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Agreed
Conclusions on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination and
Violence
These are the agreed conclusions from the
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South
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Programmatic and policy intervention
Research tools and methodologies
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Project
Knowledge Library and
Exchange Platform: Sexual Violence &
HIV
Sexual Violence Research Initiative
(SVRI) and the
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The Sexual Violence Research Initiative and the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development are supporting the development of an in-depth knowledge library and exchange platform focused on sexual violence and HIV. This library, hosted on AIDSPortal, is available at http://www.aidsportal.org/overlay_details.aspx?nex=53.
We are requesting any documents that you have on sexual violence and HIV to be uploaded to the portal. This collection will serve Government, civil society, the private sector and academics with a gateway to information about sexual violence and HIV.
PLEASE
SUBMIT MATERIAL BY JUNE 20th
What
are we looking for?
Primarily resources in
English (although web links to sources of information in other languages are
welcome). Resources (in PDF or Word format) can cover:
- Research on the intersections between
sexual violence and HIV
- Examples of
interventions (awareness raising, prevention,
care and support, advocacy etc.)
- Different types
of resources (toolkits, research studies,
newsletters, case studies, campaigning resources, mapping studies, position
papers, advocacy statements, training materials, key contacts and networks
etc.)
How
can you submit information?
You can directly upload your own documents to AIDSPortal. Please JOIN by clicking: http://www.aidsportal.org/join.aspx ,JOINING IS FREE. You will be given a user name and password and can then directly upload your own documents to this important new collection by going to the AIDSPortal page on Sexual Violence and HIV, http://www.aidsportal.org/overlay_details.aspx?nex=53, and clicking ‘Add’ in the right hand tool box.
We will make all resources
contributed available on the AIDSPortal Sexual Violence and HIV page. They
will be summarised and cross-referenced and available for others to
access. Any information published by your organisation will be given full
credit.
The AIDSPortal is a global knowledge
sharing network that is driven by people and facilitated by web-based
tools. The AIDSPortal facilitates networking and information sharing among
a global audience of practitioners and policy-makers.
The Sexual Violence Research
Initiative is a network
of experienced and committed researchers, policy-makers, activists, donors and
others who are working together to promote research on
sexual violence and to generate empirical data to ensure that sexual violence is
recognised as a priority public health issue. To join visit: www.svri.org or email svri@mrc.ac.za
For more information on this project please
contact:
Liz Dartnall, Sexual Violence
Research Initiative, svri@mrc.ac.za
Andrée Gacoin, AIDSPortal
Facilitator (