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 Women’s Rights and HIV
Women’s Rights and HIV – Special ALQ/Mujeres Adelante Editions
As part of our Moving Towards Vienna, the AIDS Legal Network (ALN), in collaboration with the Athena Network, will produce a series of Special ALQ/Mujeres Adelante Editions focusing on women’s rights and HIV.
The January 2010 Edition explores some of the realities impacting on the extent to which women’s rights are accessible and realisable, as well as on the adequacy of responses to women’s risks and vulnerabilities to both HIV infection and human rights abuses. The ‘question of evidence’ as a global challenge in the response to women and HIV; engaging men and the role of men’s organisations in the process of gender transformation; the need to engender the response to HIV in India; and the extent to which sexual and reproductive rights are realisable for women in polygamous relations are some of the issues discussed in this edition.
This issue also discusses the notion of ‘choice’ for pregnant women in a rural context; shares ‘musings’ on HIV testing and pregnancy; and introduces ‘conversations’, a new feature, bringing forward the voices of women who have become an integral part of the response to women and women’s rights in the context of HIV and AIDS.
The various articles in the March 2010 Edition raise the question as to how far have we come in not only recognising, but realising especially women’s rights in the context of HIV and AIDS; and highlight some of the newly emerging challenges, as well as the existing challenges that continue to receive far too less attention in the response to HIV and AIDS. Some of the issues explored include the impact of HIV criminalisation laws on positive women; the extent to which HIV prevention efforts address the realities and needs of women; the accuracy of the female condom ‘success’ story in Zimbabwe; sex workers’ involvement in HIV prevention work in Russia, as well as the ‘invisibility’ of transgender men.
This edition also provides an overview of latest legislative trends to further criminalise and/or prosecute same-sex relations in Africa; shares ‘musings’ on the Post-Beijing Framework; introduces a positive women’s agenda for Europe and Central Asia; and includes a ‘conversation’ with Milly Katana.
Last Updated: 9/1/2010
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