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To
improve the situation of women living with HIV and AIDS throughout the world,
we need:
1.
Encouragement and support for the development of self-help groups and networks.
2. The media
to realistically portray us, not to stigmatise us.
3.
Accessible and affordable health care (conventional and complementary) and
research into how the virus affects women.
4. Funding
for services to lessen our isolation and meet our basic needs. All funds
directed to us need to be supervised to make sure we receive them.
5. The right
to be respected and supported in our choices about reproduction, including the
right to have, or not to have, children.
6.
Recognition of the right of our children and orphans to be cared for and of the
importance of our role as parents.
7. Education
and training of health care providers and the community about women's risk and
our needs. Up-to-date and accurate information about all the issues for women
living with HIV/AIDS should be easily and freely available.
8.
Recognition of the fundamental human rights of all women living with HIV/AIDS,
particularly women in prison, drug users and sex workers. These fundamental
rights should include employment, travel without restriction and housing.
9. Research
into female infectivity, including woman-to-woman transmission,and recognition
of and support for lesbians living with HIV/AIDS.
10. Decision
making power and consultation at all levels of policy and programmes affecting
us.
11. Economic
support for women living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries to help them to
be self-sufficient and independent.
12. Any
definition of AIDS to include symptoms and clinical manifestations specific to
women.
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