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Integrating legal education and services into health care settings can help ensure that women are able to secure their rights.
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
6 studies Gray IIIa, IV, V HIV-related discrimination, legal assistance, people who use drugs, post-exposure prophylaxis, property rights, rape, violence against women, wills Kenya, Ukraine, Zambia
Scaling up PMTCT programs increases the number of women who know their serostatus and improves HIV knowledge.
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
3 studies Gray IV, V HIV testing, PMTCT, antenatal care, treatment Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire
Peer support groups can increase adherence.
Adherence and Support
10 studies Gray II, IIIa, IIIb, V adherence, counseling, support, support groups, treatment Colombia, India, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam
Transgender Women and Men
Prevention for Key Affected Populations
Transgender women and men are at significant risk for HIV as a result of greater risk of violence and discrimination in health services. No evaluated interventions were found that provided services for transgender women and transgender men. Very little information has been published on HIV and transgender women and men in developing countries. No data was found concerning what percent of transg...
Peer education for women can increase condom use.
Male and Female Condom Use
2 studies Gray IIIa condom use, condoms, marriage, peer education, peer education Malawi, sexual behavior China
Providing treatment support and literacy, including by HIV-positive peers and by providers, can increase adherence.
Adherence and Support
4 studies Gray IIIb, V adherence, counseling, literacy, support, support groups, treatment, treatment literacy Indonesia, Mozambique, Swaziland, Thailand
Treatment support sessions can increase adherence among adolescents.
Increasing Access to Services
5 studies Gray II, IIIb, V adherence, adolescents, parents, reatment, support, testing, treatment, ttesting South Africa, Thailand, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
Strengthening the Enabling Environment
*Respecting, protecting and fulfilling womens rights, particularly the rights of the most marginalized women, is increasingly understood as fundamental to an effective HIV response. Laws reflecting unequal gender norms that discriminate against women may limit their ability to protect themselves from HIV infection. In many countries where women are most at risk for acquiring HIV, laws to protec...
Women and Girls
Care and Support
By all estimates, most care and support is provided in the home and women provide two-thirds or more of that care and support (Ogden et al., 2006; Homan et al., 2005b; Akintola, 2006; UN, 2008b; Nyangara et al., 2009b; Surkan et al., 2010). However, this means that one-third of care and support is provided by men, and some have argued that making this more visible can shift gender norms and inc...
Comprehensive harm reduction programs, including needle exchange programs, condom distribution, agonist therapy and outreach, and nonjudgmental risk reduction counseling can reduce HIV risk behaviors and prevalence among PWID.
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
10 studies Gray I, II, IIIa, IIIb HIV testing, PWID, PWID drug treatment, condom use, counseling, drug treatment, drug use, harm reduction, health education, needle distribution, needle exchange, needles Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, India, Nepal, Russia, United States
Adherence and Support
Treatment
"I'm 18 years, you are telling me drugs for life?" --Woman living with HIV in Uganda (Hsieh, 2013: 11)Treatment adherence is necessary to continually suppress the virus. Adherence to ART leads to better virological outcomes, prevents disease progression and improves survival (Nachega et al., 2010a; Nachega et al., 2010c). Conversely, inadequate adherence leads to drug resistance, which can then...
Strengthening the Enabling Environment
In order for HIV and/or AIDS interventions for women and girls to succeed, factors beyond the health services need to be addressed through multisectoral interventions. These environmental factors include gender norms that guide how girls and boys grow to be women and men, legal norms that confer or withhold rights for women and girls, access to education, income, levels of tolerance for violenc...
Antenatal Care - Treatment
Safe Motherhood and Prevention of Vertical Transmission
Antiretroviral treatment (ART) for women living with HIV is vital to ensuring safe motherhood and reducing vertical transmission. But not all pregnant women access treatment. For women in high-income countries where access to triple therapy during pregnancy has been the standard of care and is near universal, rates of vertical HIV transmission are as low as 0.4%, for example, in Canada (Forbes ...
Targeted education efforts can increase adolescent uptake of HIV testing and counseling and related services
Increasing Access to Services
2 studies Gray IIIa, IIIb adolescents, health services, stigma, testing, treatment Ethiopia
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
Strengthening the Enabling Environment
"...Three decades into the epidemic, stigmatization remains a core feature of the patient experience of HIV/AIDS" (Gilbert and Walker, 2010: 144). Or as one woman living with HIV in Thailand put it: "It does not matter how many thousand people have HIV/AIDS... I would say that only zero percent will accept people living with HIV/AIDS" (Liamputtong et al., 2009: 865). Stigma and discrimination h...
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Care and Support
In some countries, three generations have been affected by HIV (Oladokun et al., 2010a). Even as incidence declines, there is a clear need to continue meeting the needs of children orphaned and made vulnerable due to HIV and AIDS. "Nowadays there is a deadly disease called AIDS. This disease is only treated but not cured. Anyone can be infected -- male, female, young, old, rich, poor, educated...
Promoting Women’s Leadership
Strengthening the Enabling Environment
Strengthening womens rights and health NGOs and supporting women leaders who can mobilize in-country efforts in the interests of women and girls affected by HIV is critical. "...It is not enough for programmes and strategies to be designed on behalf of those living with AIDS; we have much to learn from their experiences, and how they struggle to negotiate being positive and maintaining sex live...
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
Prevention for Key Affected Populations
Despite injecting drug use being a main driver of the HIV epidemic in many parts of the world, evaluated tailored responses for women who use drugs or for female sexual partners of men who use drugs have not matched the needs of this population. Injecting drug use is globally widespread and the main driver of the HIV epidemic in some parts of the world. Approximately 16 million people in 148 co...
Home testing, consented to by household members, can increase the number of people who learn their serostatus.
HIV Testing and Counseling for Women
9 studies Gray I, IIIa, IIIb HIV testing, condoms, counseling, disclosure, health facilities, home-based testing Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia
Prevention for Women
In this era of great strides forward in treatment, it is important not to lose sight of the continued need to undertake a range of interventions to prevent HIV transmission. An estimated 2.7 million people newly acquired HIV infection in 2010, as they did for each of the years 2009, 2008 and 2007, down from 3.1 million people in 2002 (WHO et al., 2011b). However, even with all this encouraging ...