Sexual and reproductive health and human rights of women living with HIV

Abstract
Introduction
Many women living with HIV can have safe, healthy and satisfying sexual and reproductive health, but there is still a long way to go for this to be a reality, especially for the most vulnerable amongst them who face repeated violations of their rights.
Discussion
The contributions in this Supplement from researchers, clinicians, programme managers, policy makers, and women living with HIV demands an important appreciation that the field of sexual and reproductive health and human rights for women living with HIV is complex on many levels, and women living with HIV form a very diverse community.
Conclusions
The manuscripts emphasize that attention must be paid to the following critical dimensions: 1) Placing human
rights and gender equality at the centre of a comprehensive approach to health programming, in particular in relation to sexuality and sexual health; 2) Ensuring health systems responsiveness to minimizing inequalities in access to health care and quality of care that often do not meet the needs of women living with HIV; 3) Engaging and empowering women living with HIV in the development of policies and programmes that affect them; and 4) Strengthening monitoring, evaluation and accountability procedures to provide good quality data and ensuring remedies for violations of health and human rights of women living with HIV.

Holistic, community-led, participatory and rights-based approaches to addressing the links between violence against women and girls, and HIV

There is increasing recognition that violence against women is a barrier to sexual and reproductive health and rights,
and a cause and consequence of HIV. In this viewpoint, we describe the recently published Action Linking Initiatives onViolence Against Women and HIV Everywhere (ALIV[H]E) framework [1]. The potential of this framework is explored in terms of it contributing to paradigm change to achieve the sexual and reproductive health rights of women experiencing, or living in contexts of, violence and/or HIV. We go on to suggest that a holistic approach to research and evaluation is vital to strengthen learning and expand the evidence base on violence against women and HIV

Community participation in addressing GBV and HIV

 

 

Youth leadership and participation ASK program evaluation 2015

The Youth Leadership and Participation (YL&P) questionnaire described in this report was completed
by key stakeholders and project providers. It was the key mechanism for undertaking a summary and
process evaluation of youth-led advocacy activities carried out in Kenya and Uganda as part of the
wider ASK (Access, Services and Knowledge) program of work developed by Dutch Youth
Empowerment Alliance. The YL&P program in Kenya and Uganda focused on young people living with
HIV (YPLHIV). The aims of the questionnaire were to explore:
I. how evidence collected at the outset of the program (through Positive Health Dignity and
Prevention (PHDP) operational research) was incorporated into planning and delivery YL&P
advocacy activities;
II. how intra- and inter-partnership decisions and communications were undertaken along the
way;
III. key successes and challenges; and
IV. how roles, responsibilities and expectations should be configured for similar work in the
future.

report 2016 _YL+P_evaluation

 

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