Women Living with HIV or AIDS and Forced Sterilization
Subject
Reproductive health
Description
For use by health practitioners and human rights advocates, this case study examines the role of human rights standards in addressing the health and social risks of being a woman with HIV or AIDS. It presents real-world scenarios, explores benefits and risks, and poses questions for discussion and debate.
A living women’s history of HIV/AIDS. Here you will find hundreds of excerpts from 39 women’s oral history narratives, each of whom comes from cities and towns in one of three states: New York, Illinois and North Carolina.
The Legal Needs of Cisgender Women Living with HIV: Evaluating Access to Justice in Los Angeles
Description
Summarizes findings of the Legal Assessment of Needs Study (“LeAN Study”) – an online survey with 387 respondents who identified as cisgender women living with HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles County.
Transitioning to a Healthy Adulthood: Lessons learned from adolescent girls living with HIV in urban Zambia
Description
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and Zambart conducted formative research between January and April 2015 to generate evidence-based ideas for services and programmatic interventions that support healthy transitions to adulthood among adolescent girls living with HIV in Zambia.
Creator
Anne Stangl, Virginia Bond, Constance Mackworth-Young, Kirsty Sievwright, Devaki Singh, Sue Clay, Chipo Chiiya, Mutale Chonta, Katongo Konayuma
The posters represented here were given to the UR’s Rare Books and Special Collections by Dr. Edward C. Atwater beginning in 2007. The posters, over 8000 of them, document efforts to educate and inform the people of over 100 countries in over 60 languages, from 1982 to the present.
Key barriers to women’s access to HIV treatment: A global review
Description
This community-based, participatory review was led and governed by 14 women living with HIV from 11 countries as a Global Reference Group: they designed the survey questionnaires, conducted focus group discussions and interviews and validated the findings.
International technical guidance on sexuality education: An evidence-informed approach
Description
The international technical guidance on sexuality education was developed to assist education, health and other relevant authorities in the development and implementation of school-based and out-of-school comprehensive sexuality education programmes and materials.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women); Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UN-AIDS); United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); World Health Organization (WHO)