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Violence
Against Women and HIV/AIDS: Critical
Intersections Sexual violence in conflict
settings and the risk of HIV
Global Coalition on Women and AIDS,
2004
In conflict situations, women and girls are
at greatly increased risk of physical and
sexual violence. Many women and girls are
subjected to rape including gang rape, forced
marriages with enemy soldiers, sexual
slavery, and other forms of violence (being
forced to witness others being raped,
mutilations, etc.). This publication
highlights the urgent need to identify, test
and implement effective strategies that
address violence against women in conflict
settings. Included in these strategies is the
need to integrate programmes that address
violence against women, HIV prevention and
AIDS treatment and care in conflict settings.
The challenges of doing this are enormous, as
immediate needs for food, shelter and
security often take precedence over other
health concerns in conflict settings.
(Adapted from source)
http://data.unaids.org/GCWA/GCWA_FS_VAW3_WHO_01May05_en.pdf
Rwanda:
Broken Bodies, Torn Spirits. Living with
Genocide, Rape and HIV/AIDS
African Rights, 2004
Researched in the course of a year across 11
of Rwanda's 12 provinces, this study is
intended as a contribution to the many
ongoing efforts to improve responses to rape,
HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted
infections (STIs). It addresses an issue
confronting all post-conflict and
conflict-ridden societies. In accounts of
rape during the 1994 genocide and their
experiences since, 185 Rwandese and 16
Burundian citizens, two of them male, reach
out beyond their own dire circumstances as
informants and advocates on a broader
critical problem. They speak of extreme
cruelty compounded by missed medical
opportunities and humanitarian failures. But,
it is surely not beyond the capacity of
governments, international agencies and
non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
working together, to restore quality of life
to these women and men. Broken Bodies, Torn
Spirits identifies their problems and some
possibilities for addressing them.
(Adapted from UNIFEM Gender and AIDS Portal -
www.genderandaids.org)
http://www.survivors-fund.org.uk/assets/docs/ex_reports/broken-bodies.pdf
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Taking
action...
Sex
work, violence and HIV: A guide for
programmes with sex workers
International HIV/AIDS Alliance,
2008
This guide discusses the challenges
involved in ensuring that violence
is addressed in HIV programmes,
gives a detailed understanding of
violence in relation to sex work and
challenges some common assumptions.
The guide also provides examples
from real programmes that illustrate
ways in which HIV and AIDS projects
can help reduce the incidence of
violence against sex workers and
provide support to those who
experience violence. This guide is
primarily for organizations
implementing HIV and AIDS projects
with sex workers and for
organizations providing funding and
technical support to these projects.
It aims to help organizations
understand and assess the importance
of taking violence into account, and
to help design and carry out
activities to prevent and deal with
violence against sex workers. It is
hoped that the discussions and
examples presented will help these
organizations to know what questions
to ask, what issues to look for, and
how to make projects more effective
by responding better to the needs of
sex workers.
(Adapted from the International
HIV/AIDS Alliance - www.aidsalliance.org)
http://www.aidsalliance.org/graphics/secretariat/publications/Sex_%20work_violence_and_HIV.pdf
HIV
& AIDS - Stigma and Violence
Reduction Intervention
Manual
International Centre for Research on
Women, 2006
Stigma and gender-based violence
fuel the HIV/AIDS pandemic by
limiting access to and use of
HIV/AIDS-related services for
prevention, treatment, care and
support. Thus, HIV/AIDS programs
that fail to consider stigma and
gender-based violence can be only
partially effective, at best. This
manual is a guide for
community-based organizations to
facilitate a community-led and
-owned process that addresses stigma
and gender-based violence in
HIV/AIDS prevention efforts. It is
based on findings from the Stigma
and Violence Reduction Intervention
(SVRI) project, conducted in Andhra
Pradesh, India from 2003 to 2005.
The project objective was to effect
behavioral and attitudinal changes
that would reduce the spread of HIV
and AIDS among mobile and
mobility-affected populations.
http://www.icrw.org/docs/2006_SVRI-Manual.pdf
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