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Dreams and
Desires: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Experiences of HIV Positive Women
International Planned Parenthood
Federation (IPPF) & the International
Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS
(ICW), 2004
HIV positive women want sex, love and
children just as much as anyone else. This is
one clear message from these personal
accounts by 13 positive women from Bolivia,
Nepal, Kenya, Ukraine, Nigeria, Thailand,
Swaziland, England, Honduras, South Africa,
Belarus, Iran, and Sudan. Their stories bring
in a human dimension to the epidemic, as well
as providing guidance for policy in the area
of the sexual and reproductive health and
rights of people living with HIV/AIDS. Many
of the women express the need for prevention
services and accurate information. They also
highlight the need for support in addressing
the many psycho-social issues related to
anti-retroviral (ARV) side effects and
complications, as well as the freedom to make
choices about whether and/or when to have
children. Access to condoms, both male and
female, is seen as critically important as a
protective method against re-infection and
unwanted pregnancies. Other issues raised
include the need for: regular and reliable
access to ARVs, adequate training of health
care workers who work with HIV positive
women, improved reproductive health services,
and the need to include HIV positive women in
the development of HIV and AIDS prevention,
care and treatment programmes.
(Adapted from Siyanda, UK - www.siyanda.org)
http://www.ippf.org/NR/rdonlyres/6EA1AAA0-4348-4193-9F3A-17DD5CE7ED50/0/dreams.pdf
Ending
child marriage: A guide for global policy
action
United Nations Global Coalition on Women
and AIDS, with the support of UNFPA, IPPF and
Young Positives, 2006
Globally, vulnerable and marginalized rural
girls and women continue to bear the health
risks and social and economic costs of early
and forced marriage, non-consensual sex and
early pregnancies. There is now greater
urgency for global policy action because
child brides are increasingly more vulnerable
to HIV infection.
This policy guide is part of a wider advocacy
strategy to raise awareness on child marriage
and its effects on communities. It is also
part of the wider initiative on preventing
HIV infection, particularly among adolescent
girls, and it aims to stimulate
decision-makers worldwide, in particular
government policy-makers, donors, and
international development agencies, to take
all necessary measures to end this violation
of rights. The publication outlines this
global problem and the reasons why child
marriage persists, assesses how it
contravenes many international human rights
standards, and then provides policy and
programmatic recommendations. It aims to
assist organizations to accelerate action and
advocate for an end to this practice. This
guide appeals to key policy makers to improve
the quality of life of millions of girls and
young women forced into child marriages.
(Adapted from IPPF - www.ippf.org)
http://www.ippf.org/en/Resources/Guides-toolkits/Ending+Child+Marriage.htm
Also available in French.
Love,
Marriage and HIV: A Multisite Ethnographic
Study of Gender and HIV Risk
National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development, 2004
For women in many parts of the world, the
behavior that puts them at greatest risk for
HIV infection is unprotected sex within
marriage. This comparative ethnographic study
explores how social and cultural factors
influence marital and extramarital intimate
relationships and examines the sexual and the
HIV prevention practices of men and women
engaged in building these relationships
across five locations in countries at
different stages of the HIV epidemic. By
detailing the processes through which
contextual factors shape women's risk of
marital HIV infection, this study contributes
to our understanding of ways to reduce the
risk of heterosexual HIV transmission.
(Adapted from the Columbia School of Public
Health Center for Gender, Sexuality and
Health - www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/sms/cgsh)
http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/sms/cgsh/lmhiv1.html#sites
*New
Addition
Asia-Pacific
Operational Framework for Linking HIV/STI
Services with Reproductive, Adolescent,
Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Services
World Health Organization/Western Pacific
Region, 2008
Distinct
interventions are needed to improve
reproductive health, adolescent reproductive
health, maternal, neonatal and child health,
and prevention and management of HIV and
other sexually transmitted infections. Yet
common underlying causes and shared solutions
provide the basis for linkages that can
strengthen all services and increase the
reach of HIV prevention and testing. This
Operational Framework provides information
about how to create these linkages and what
factors to take into account in doing so. The
emphasis is not on creating all possible
linkages, but on doing what is possible and
advisable given local factors such as
epidemiology, current skill sets, the current
organization of the health system, resources
available, and health system usage
patterns.
This
31 page document contains six chapters that
explore why linkages between HIV/AIDS and
reproductive, adolecent, maternal, newborn
and child health services are important to
increasing Universal Access to care, how to
link these services and examples from
countries like Cambodia and India.
http://www.wpro.who.int/NR/rdonlyres/DB0EB0E3-3AB5-4667-ACD9-
E8C5DAEA53FC/0/HSI_LinkingHIVServices_March2008_FINAL.pdf
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Taking
action...
A
Manual for Integrating Gender into
Reproductive Health and HIV
Programs: FROM COMMITMENT TO
ACTION
Interagency Gender Working
Group, 2004
This reference manual, prepared by
the Interagency Gender Working Group
(IGWG) Gender Manual Task Force,
focuses on the "how" of gender
integration. Program managers and
designers of new programs will find
it to be an invaluable tool for
integrating gender concerns into
program design, implementation, and
evaluation, thereby improving
reproductive health through
equitable gender relations.
http://www.prb.org/pdf/ManualIntegrGendr.pdf
http://www.prb.org/pdf/ManualIntegrGendr.pdf
Also available in Spanish at:
http://www.prb.org/pdf05/ManualIntegrGendr_Sp.pdf
And in French at: http://www.prb.org/pdf05/FrenchGenderManual.pdf
Sexual
and Reproductive Health for
HIV-Positive Women and Adolescent
Girls &endash; Manual for Trainers
and Programme Managers
EngenderHealth & the
International Community of Women
Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), 2006
This manual, developed in
collaboration with the International
Community of Women Living with HIV
(ICW), provides information and a
structure for a four-day training
and a two-day planning workshop that
will enable program managers and
health workers to provide
comprehensive, nonjudgmental, and
high-quality sexual and reproductive
health (SRH) care and support to
HIV-positive women and adolescent
girls. The manual is designed for a
local context with limited
resources. The manual also urges
male involvement, promotes a
holistic approach to integrated SRH
counseling, and emphasizes program
planning that links SRH and HIV
services. Aimed at health workers
who are working at community level
with women and adolescent girls with
HIV/AIDS, this manual provides a
comprehensive 4-day training agenda
and 2-day planning workshop on
integrating sexual and reproductive
rights counseling with HIV/AIDS
services. The 19 participatory
sessions are designed for a local
context and cover topics like
adolescent sexuality, pregnancy and
HIV/AIDS; counseling HIV-positive
girls on sexual and reproductive
rights, ethical issues in
counseling; and addressing sexuality
with HIV-positive women and girls.
It was field-tested in Brazil,
Ethiopia, and the Ukraine.
(Adapted from Siyanda, UK -
www.siyanda.org)
http://www.engenderhealth.org/files/pubs/hiv-aids-stis/SRH_for_HIV_Positive_Women_English.pdf
Also available in French,
Portuguese, Spanish and Russian
at:
http://www.engenderhealth.org/pubs/hiv-aids-sti/srh-hiv-positive-women-girls.php
Gender
or Sex: Who Cares? Skills-building
resource pack on gender and
reproductive health for adolescents
and youth workers, with a special
emphasis on violence, HIV/Sexually
Transmitted Infections (STIs),
unwanted pregnancy and unsafe
abortion
Ipas and Health &
Development Networks (HDN), 2001
Aimed at volunteers, professionals
and youth who work with young people
on the influence of gender on issues
of sexual and reproductive health,
this resource pack provides a
workshop curriculum that introduces
the concepts of sex and gender,
explores how these concepts are at
play in the participants own lives
and society in general, allows
participants to survey how these
concepts have been transmitted and
learnt and gives them the
opportunity to analyze how gender
affects sexual and reproductive
health. This skills-building
resource pack features a number of
participatory tools and games as
part of its curriculum and
incorporates suggestions and
feedback from field-tests in various
regions of the world enabling easy
adaptation in different cultural
situations.
http://www.ipas.org/Publications/asset_upload_file99_2439.pdf?ht=skills%20building%20resource%20pack%20on%20
gender%20and%20reproductive%20health%20skills%20building%20resource%20pack%20on%20gender%20and
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