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Women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) are three times more likely to contract HIV

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Women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) are three times more likely to contract HIV

According to a study from McGill University researchers, women who experience recent intimate partner violence (IPV) are three times more likely to contract HIV. In Sub-Saharan Africa, women face an intersecting epidemic of IPV and HIV.
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UNAIDS releases new report outlining the path that ends AIDS

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UNAIDS releases new report outlining the path that ends AIDS

A new UNAIDS report delineates a clear path that ends AIDS, and helps prepare for and tackle future pandemics. The report cautions, however, that ending AIDS will not come automatically. Women and girls are still disproportionately affected, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Globally, 4,000 young women and girls became infected with HIV every week in 2022.
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Coercive reproductive healthcare practices reported by high number of women living with HIV

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Coercive reproductive healthcare practices reported by high number of women living with HIV

Recent data gathered from the People Living with HIV Stigma Index 2.0 indicates that women living with HIV are at an increased risk of reproductive coercion by healthcare professionals across sub-Saharan Africa, eastern Europe, and central Asia. HIV positive women who are sex workers, use drugs and/or are migrants are more likely to receive poor quality and stigmatising reproductive care.
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Club Eney Ukraine Interview

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Club Eney Ukraine Interview admin Wed, 12/28/2022 - 13:46

Club Eney works with women at risk of HIV in Ukraine with a focus on providing women sensitive harm reduction services. In this interview Vielta tells of her personal journey from client to chair of Club Eney. She also discusses the integration of WINGS to address gender based violence as a component of their harm reduction service.

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WHRIN Interview with SANPUD (South African Network of People Who Use Drugs)

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WHRIN Interview with SANPUD (South African Network of People Who Use Drugs) admin Wed, 12/28/2022 - 13:44

Angela and Julie, both working with women who use drugs in South Africa, discuss harm reduction services in an environment where women who use drugs experience high rates of gender-based violence, HIV prevalence and compound discrimination. Angela and Julie describe how women focused services are implemented in their country.

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Academy of Perinatal Harm Reduction Interview

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Academy of Perinatal Harm Reduction Interview admin Wed, 12/28/2022 - 13:42

Women who use drugs face significant barriers in accessing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. Comprehensive SRH is increasingly recognized as a core component in HIV and harm reduction services. The Academy of Perinatal Harm Reduction provides evidence-based information and wrap-around services for pregnant and parenting people who use drugs. In this story, Joelle, Ria and Erika share about their personal motivations and about the significance of SRH for women who use drugs.

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SisterSpace: A Safe Space For All Women

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SisterSpace: A Safe Space For All Women admin Wed, 12/28/2022 - 13:35

SisterSpace provides a range of services responding to the needs of women who use drugs, including the world’s first women’s only safe injecting facility. In the following interview, CEO Janice Abbott reflects not only on how and why SisterSpace emerged but highlights the importance of fostering safe spaces and places for women in the community.

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WHRIN Interview with Patricia Gonzalez Zuniga

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WHRIN Interview with Patricia Gonzalez Zuniga admin Wed, 12/28/2022 - 13:35

Patricia Gonzalez reflects on her near 30 years working with marginalized sectors of the community in Tijuana, Mexico. A combination of gendered, social and economic and political barriers impact on how marginalized sectors of society access health and welfare services- additionally the impact of the localized militarization of the War on Drugs has intensified both the state and social forms of violence experienced by women who use drugs throughout the region. Through Clinica Wound, a mobile street-based clinic Patricia and a team of volunteers provide treatment and care to marginalized members of the community.

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Rethinking Harm Reduction With The Metzineres Transfeminist Approach

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Rethinking Harm Reduction With The Metzineres Transfeminist Approach admin Wed, 12/28/2022 - 13:32

Intersectional feminist principles form the basis of Metzineres practices, a Barcelona based harm reduction organization. The Metzineres model highlights not only the interconnectedness of the social determinants of health but also the critical importance of a ‘holistic person centered’ approach to service users. Metzineres’s innovative and unique model has achieved worldwide acclaim and attention in the harm reduction sector and is cited as an exemplar of ‘good practice’. This interview highlights how and why an Intersectional feminist approach complements harm reduction practices.

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Global and regional resources

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Global and regional resources admin Thu, 06/02/2022 - 23:16

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Global and regional resources

As part of POWER, UN Women developed key resources and tools to promote sexual, reproductive, maternal, child, newborn and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) in humanitarian settings in the Horn of Africa.

Title

Policy Brief on the Regional Reference Report on Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health in the Horn of Africa

Publish Year

2021

Publisher

UN Women

Link

In Brief: Regional Reference Report on Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, New-born, Child and Adolescent Health in the Horn of Africa

Description

This policy brief aimed to facilitate cross-country learning and inform policy, advocacy, and programme development on SRMNCAH in the Horn of Africa in humanitarian settings.

Title

Research Paper: Community Solutions for Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health in Humanitarian Settings in the Horn of Africa

Publish Year

2021

Publisher

UN Women

Link

Research Paper: Community Solutions for Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health in Humanitarian Settings in the Horn of Africa

Description

This paper provides documentation of promising practices of community solutions to address SRMNCAH challenges in the Horn of Africa region through demand creation and service delivery interventions.

Title

Report of Proceedings: Regional Policy Dialogue on Adopting the Social Institutions and Gender Index Data to Address Barriers To Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health in Humanitarian Settings

Publish Year

2021

Publisher

UN Women

Link

Regional Policy Dialogue: Adopting the Social Institutions and Gender Index Data to Address Barriers to Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, New-born, Child, and Adolescent Health in Humanitarian Settings

Description

This report provides an overview of the Regional Policy Dialogue sessions convened in 2021 which aimed to support relevant institutions and humanitarian actors in the Horn of Africa to establish rights-based national and local SRMNCAH Frameworks in humanitarian settings.

Title

Tool for Gender-Responsive Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Programming in Humanitarian Settings

Publish Year

2022

Publisher

UN Women

Link

Tool for Gender-Responsive Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Programming in Humanitarian Settings

Description

This tool provides a guide to analyze the extent to which gender is integrated during different phases of SRMNCAH programming in humanitarian settings. It will detail how a specific SRMCNAH programme is well designed to integrate gender equality dimensions in humanitarian context and ensure effective and equitable delivery of SRMNCAH information and services during humanitarian crises. The tool complements the Programming guide on promoting gender equality in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health with important additions for SRMNCAH programming in humanitarian settings.

Title

Learning from Power: Programme on Women’s Empowerment in Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Rights in Humanitarian Settings in the Horn of Africa Region.

Publish Year

2022

Publisher

UN Women

Link

UN Women Learning from POWER Programme

Description

UN Women and its partners have developed new approaches and refined strategies to identify impactful interventions and increase collaboration to tackle demand-side barriers to accessing SRMNCAH information and services and to promote gender equality in Humanitarian settings. These set of case studies highlighted in this report describe key approaches and distil lessons learned, so that the interventions can be further replicated and scaled up in similar contexts. These approaches include transformative leadership for women’s rights, group care models, engaging men as agents of change, supporting women’s rights organizations, meeting women’s livelihood and protection needs, prioritizing SRMNCAH services during the COVID-19 pandemic, integrating SRMNCAH priorities into national policies and plans, ending child marriage, and guiding improved data generation, financing and policy decisions. The case studies provide inspiration to organizations committed to ensuring that every woman, child and adolescent girl is empowered to assert her rights to access high-quality SRMNCAH services.

Title

Video Message: Achievements and challenges of POWER

Publish Year

2022

Publisher

UN Women

Link

The Impact of the POWER Programme

Description

This video showcases the benefits of the POWER approach to removing barriers preventing women and girls from demanding their rights

Title

Video on Community Dialogues, Ethiopia

Publish Year

2022

Publisher

UN Women

Link

POWER Community Dialogues in Ethiopia

Description

This video shows how UN Women and partners engaged community members, leaders, local health care workers, and media to ensure women, men and adolescent girls and boys have information about their sexual and reproductive health and rights, as well as the benefits of gender-equitable norms, attitudes, and practices. This video highlights the benefits of such dialogues in Ethiopia.

Title

Video on Transformational Leadership Training on SRMNCAH rights, Uganda

Publish Year

2022

Publisher

UN Women

Link

Transformative leadership training for Young Women in Uganda

Description

Women were empowered to access health services and women leaders were mobilized to increase demand for and provide sexual and reproductive health care services in humanitarian settings. This video highlights the benefits of training and other community mobilization efforts in Uganda.

Title

Video: Call to Action for Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health Rights in HoA

Publish Year

2021

Publisher

UN Women

Link

Call to Action for Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health Rights in HoA: Rahma Ahmed (Kenya)

Call to Action for Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health Rights in HoA: Regina Lullo (South Sudan)

Call to Action for Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health Rights in HoA: Mustafa Asman (Kenya)

Call to Action Video Message: consolidated.

Description

Through UN Women's Programme on Women's Empowerment in the Horn of Africa (POWER), supported by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), gender equality advocates call for action to uphold SRMNCAH rights in humanitarian settings.

Title

STORIES OF POWER - positive stories of impact in communities in Kenya and South Sudan.

Publish Year

2022

Publisher

UN Women

Link

Stories of POWER - Budgeting for Better Outcomes on Women and Girls’ Health and Rights in the Horn of Africa: Regina Ossa Lullo (South Sudan) and Alberta Wambua (Kenya)

Description

In these stories of POWER, Gender Responsive Budgeting training participants tell their stories on how the training helped them understand and engage in gender responsive budgeting in health programmes to utilize national budgets, prioritize actions and address specific needs of women, men, boys, and girls in humanitarian context.

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