Articles
Transport Hampers AIDS Treatment
Friday, 29th of August 2008, By Wezi Tjaronda , WINDHOEK
Lack of transport to health services for people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) has resulted in some not adhering to anti-retroviral treatment.
A report of an assessment conducted in two regions, Omusati and Karas, to gauge the impact of transport on access to health services for PLWHA in Namibia, says lack of appropriate and affordable transport hinders access to health services.
ICW Latina Newsletter
Patricia Pérez vicepresidenta de la Coalición de Primeras Damas
Help for HIV-positive women
August 20, 2008
Inside a modest one-room office on the outskirts of Windhoek's city centre, Jennifer Gatsi-Mallet displays her signature wide grin and fills the room with her chuckling manner of talking.
Her desk is a clutter of various assignments, projects, notes from friends and organizations, all of which demand her attention in an already jam-packed schedule.
WHO pedals back: The HIV pandemic among heterosexuals is not over.
Correction to AIDS Story in The Independent, 8 June 2008
New York, 11 June 2008 - We wish to clarify misinterpretations concerning WHO and UNAIDS' positions on the status of the AIDS epidemic in recent media articles.
The story in the Independent on Sunday titled: "Threat of world AIDS pandemic among heterosexuals is over, report admits" contained a few seriously misleading statements that have led to inferences and conclusions that bear no relation to the highly complex realities of the HIV epidemic.
Thinking Positive
Thinking positive - It is only by listening to those most affected, that we can bring about real change. Ahead of World AIDS Day, Luisa Orza and Jennifer Gatsi Mallet report on a groundbreaking project bringing together parliamentarians and HIV positive women in Namibia.
ICW/ICRW article on Parliamentarians for Women's Health project in Namibia
ICW, the Centre for the study of AIDS (CSA), International Center
for Research on Women (ICRW) and Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalisation nitiative (EGI) are working with parliamentarians as part of a consortium to improve women’s access to health care in our countries: Botswana, Namibia, Kenya nd Tanzania. The aim of the Parliamentarians for Women’s Health (PWH) project is to improve parliamentarians’ understanding of the health issues that women, especially HIV-positive women, face, including barriers to accessing treatment and sexual and reproductive health facilities.
Joint ICW and GNP+ article on SRH featured in Reproductive Health Matters
Sexual and Reproductive Health Services and HIV Testing: Perspectives and Experiences of Women and Men Living with HIV and AIDS
By Emma Bell, Promise Mthembu, Sue O’Sullivan on behalf of the
International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, and Kevin Moody on behalf of the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS
ICW guest editor for Autumn 2006 issue of 'Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender'
Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender is a quarterly - 16-page magazine on HIV/AIDS from the perspective of gender, sexuality and sexual health. This issue of Exchange focuses on some pressing concerns of women living with HIV and AIDS.
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An overview article written by guest editor Emma Bell of ICW (International Community of Women living with HIV/AIDS) together with her colleague Luisa Orza highlights some of these concerns. One of these is the balancing required by positive women to be able to manage the fears instilled by their positive status (of infecting one’s loved ones, of being stigmatized and discriminated, of abandonment and violence, etc.) with the need for security and support and the desire for intimacy, love and children. Another concern is the lack of recognition of sexual and reproductive rights of women living HIV.
Some of the topics addressed in other articles on this issue are the much-discussed ABC approach to behaviour change and how that ignores complex issues like human needs and desires; the loss of property and land experienced by many women living with or affected by HIV and AIDS in India; and the approach of ‘memory work’ with mothers living with HIV and their children as developed by NACWOLA in Uganda some ten years ago.