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I. Quick Guide: Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS
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Violence against women (VAW) fuels the spread of HIV/AIDS. How can we tackle
both to give women more choice around safer sex?
- Violence against Women and AIDS, UNAIDS, 2004
This fact sheet analyses the issue of violence against women and its relationship
with AIDS.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/unaids_vaw.htm
- Deadly Delay: South Africa's Efforts to Prevent HIV in Survivors of Sexual
Violence, Human Rights Watch, 2004
The trauma of sexual violence can be compounded by the trauma of potential HIV
infection. The transmission risk, however, can be reduced if rape survivors
are promptly given antiretroviral drugs.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/hrw_vawhiv.htm
- Just Die Quietly: Domestic Violence and Women's Vulnerability to HIV in Uganda,
Human Rights Watch, 2003
Domestic violence, including marital rape, is exposing Ugandan women to HIV
infection. This report is based on 120 interviews with women across Uganda.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/hrw_diequietly.htm
- Women, War and Peace: The Independent Experts: Assessment on the Impact of
Armed Conflict on Women and Women's Role in Peace-Building (see Chapter 4 on
HIV/AIDS), Rehn, E. and Sirleaf, E. J., 2002
UNIFEM appointed two female politicians and government officials to travel to
conflict areas, interview women and bring their concerns on various issues including
HIV/AIDS to the attention of the United Nations and the world.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/rehn_womenwar.htm
- Social and Cultural Factors which Facilitate the Transmission of HIV in Bolivia
(Spanish), Quiroga, G.V.R., 2002
Pressures for men to be macho, and women submissive, increase risk of both violence
and HIV transmission in sexual relations. These pressures must be challenged
with a promotion of the right of both women and men to a healthy pleasurable
sexuality.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/quiroga_socicultrbolivia.htm
- Women, Gender and HIV/AIDS in East and Southeast Asia Kit, UNIFEM, 2001
This kit provides information and resources on the way in which gender interacts
with the HIV/AIDS epidemic including through sexual violence.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/unifem_hivsoutheast.htm
Summaries written by BRIDGE Team members.
More Siyanda resources on VAW & HIV/AIDS can be found through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/. Please visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes: http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm
Gender Concepts and Definitions will be the next Quick Guide theme. Users are invited to submit or suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/
II. Country Focus: Bolivia
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Access key gender resources:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/qlinx-countryfocus.cfm?code=bolivia
network with, or find consultants:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?CouOfExp=bolivia
Russia will be the upcoming country of focus. Users can submit current gender and development publications on this country for possible inclusion in the database here: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/ Users are also invited to enter their profile in the Gender Experts and Consultants Database: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/addexp.cfm, if they are based in or come from this country.
III. Websites of Interest:
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UNIFEM's Gender and HIV/AIDS Web Portal
http://www.genderandaids.org/
UNIFEM, in collaboration with UNAIDS, has developed this comprehensive gender and HIV/AIDS web portal to provide up-to-date information on the gender dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The site aims to promote understanding, knowledge sharing, and action on HIV/AIDS as a gender and human rights issue. The website currently features a key issues page on "the link between violence against women and the HIV/AIDS pandemic" written in collaboration with DFID Health Resource Centre and ELDIS: http://www.eldis.org/hivaids/vaw_consequences.htm (for further information on this page go to: http://www.eldis.org/hivaids/hived.htm)
For more information on the UNIFEM Gender and HIV/AIDS web portal contact:
Ms. Nazneen Damji
Programme Specialist, Gender and HIV/AIDS
United Nations Development Fund for Women
304 E45th Street
15th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Email: unifem@genderandaids.org
IV. Forums: Identity
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We invite you to engage in thought-provoking dialogues on topical gender and
development (GAD) issues with users from diverse geographical, ideological and
professional backgrounds:
Identity Forum:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120030123022409
"In essence I believe most of us do not feel we fit into boxes of societal
norms and expectations of the times, and therein can lie an inner struggle.
We are multifaceted social entities of multifaceted identities - we are what
we dare claim to be."
Excerpt from a recent posting to the forum.
(If you do not have easy or cheap Internet access, please e-mail your contribution to: siyanda@ids.ac.uk and we will post it on the forum for you).
V. Users' Corner:
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Access and post relevant newsletters, meeting reports, short papers, and student
theses here:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120030204122635
** The "Siyanda Update" is a monthly newsletter featuring the latest
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All the best,
Ra'ida Al-Zu'bi
Information and Networking Coordinator/Consultant
BRIDGE, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
at the University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE
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