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Nomonde Ngema, a young HIV activist, shares her experiences as a young woman living with HIV. She discusses her journey to advocacy, her mission and accomplishments, including her unique and powerful use of TikTok to spread awareness and empower others.
This research paper describes the particular vulnerability of women living with HIV in the context of armed conflicts. Disruption to regular testing, treatment regimens, and SRHR services plays a significant role in the worsened health outcomes experienced by WLHIV during conflicts.
Women living with HIV experience disproportionate and alarming rates of coercive practices, mistreatment, and abuse particularly while exercising their sexual and reproductive health and rights. This report seeks to understand women living with HIV's experiences of these human rights violations, highlighting stories from women in over 60 countries, and identifying the persistent and widespread nature of this problem.
This review aims to synthesize existing evidence of the mental health burden on women living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. It explores the contributing stressors, protective factors, and effects of mental illness on viral suppression rates, providing a clear argument for the integration of increased mental health care services in the HIV response.
This fact sheet shares important facts and figures that describe the state of the HIV epidemic for adolescent girls and young women. These statistics demonstrate the disproportionate burden of the HIV epidemic that adolescent girls and young women still face, especially as compared to their male counterparts. In 2022, there were an estimated 1.9 million adolescent girls and young women living with HIV, and comparably fewer--1.2 million--…
From Site: This paper is based on a review of literature as well as a series of community interviews with women who use drugs who are living with HIV in different regions of the world as well as selected other stakeholders who work in the fields of HIV and harm reduction. The experience of women who use drugs and live with HIV along the HIV service continuum and factors that impact their health and rights are explored. The paper seeks to…
Bahati Thomas Haule, a feminist activist and HIV advocate, shares her powerful reflections on World AIDS Day.
This study assesses the prevalence of HIV-related and/or risky behaviors among male partners of AGYW. The results highlight the need for targeted HIV prevention interventions for men to reduce both their own risk and the risk of transmission to their female partners.
The HIV Prevention Choice Manifesto represents the voices of African women and girls in all their diversity, feminists, and HIV prevention advocates who call for global political and financial support for HIV prevention choice. The manifesto outlines several points for action that will enable future prevention programs to emphasize individual choice, rather than individual products.
UN Women Rwanda Strengthens National Advocacy for an Increased Response to HIV Among Women and Girls
As part of national efforts to enhance the livelihood status of rural women living with HIV, UN Women provided financial and technical support to 8 cooperatives composed of 317 farmers (217 women, 100 men) of which 269 are HIV+. These cooperatives received coaching RRP+ to improve their agricultural skills as well as cooperative management (saving, investment, marketing, and reporting), use of financial resources and reporting.
Psychosocial factors were independent atherosclerotic risk factors among Women Living With HIV (WLWH). Research is needed to determine whether interventions for depression and psychosocial stress can mitigate the increased risk of atherosclerosis for WLWH.
UNAIDS report on the global AIDS pandemic 2020 shows that women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa continue to be the most affected and accounted for 59% of all new HIV infections in the region in 2019, with 4500 adolescent girls and young women between 15 and 24 years old becoming infected with HIV every week. Young women accounted for 24% of new HIV infections in 2019, despite making up only 10% of the population in sub-Saharan Africa.
Gender inequalities affect women’s access to and experience of HIV/AIDS programmes and services. The current study focused on Female Injecting Drug Users with human immunodeficiency virus positive status, residing in Champai district of Mizoram - known as transit hub for illegal drugs.
In alignment with the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) goal to reach ‘95-95-95’ targets – that 95 percent of all people living with HIV will know their status, 95 percent of all those with diagnosed HIV infection will receive sustained antiretroviral therapy (ART), and 95 percent of all those receiving ART will have viral suppression by 2020 – a gender analysis is an important planning tool for the development of…
Since its announcement, Undetectable equals Untransmittable (U=U) has become a call to action to assert that when someone living with HIV has an undetectable viral load they cannot transmit HIV. Additionally, the U=U message is evolving to challenge notions of HIV infectivity, vulnerability and stigma. The science behind the U=U message provides the evidence that we can reduce the anxiety related to the sexual transmission of the HIV virus with…
This Comment was written by women living with HIV previously involved in a global values and preferences survey on the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) priorities of women living with HIV in response to the Lancet Global Health's article on "Investing in sexual and reproductive health and rights to reach HIV and universal health coverage goals." It builds on key points highlighted in their survey, Building a Safe House on Firm…
This executive summary provides organizations, institutions, and individuals existing guidance, new recommendations, and good practice to better address the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women living with HIV (WLHIV). It is geared towards providing health care workers, programme managers, and public health policy makers recommendations to fulfill these rights and ensure WLHIV experience better care and more enabling…
This policy brief explores the health of immigrant women in the United States living with HIV or vulnerable to acquiring HIV. It identifies research priorities and policy recommendations to better address immigrant women's needs and improve prevention and treatment efforts for them.
This page provides an important overview of why adolescent girls and young women are at a much higher risk of HIV than men in many regions. It addresses issues from eco-systemic levels, such as violence, lack of access to health care and education, and lack of legal recognition. It also provides recent statistics and examples about women and HIV.
This article examines opportunities for women to engage with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. Suggestions are made for the community, national, and global levels. Insight and discussions are included from collaborations of various organizations including: AIDS Legal Network, ATHENA Network, Access Chapter 2 South Africa, International Community of Women Living with HIV East Africa (ICWEA), Uganda, and Coalition of Women…