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Cover Photo: Gideon Mendel/Corbis/ActionAidRuth Nkuya, who is living with HIV and AIDS and taking antiretroviral medication, talksto a participant in an HIV and AIDS education drama at the market place in NgwenyaLocation, Lilongwe, Malawi.AcknowledgementsAuthors: Nick Corby, Nina O'Farrell, Mike Podmore and Carmen Sepúlveda ZelayaEditors: Vicky Anning, Christian Humphries and Jenny DrezinResearch assistants: Maria Adelantado and Rebecca SinclairDesign: Academy Design PartnersWith thanks to all ActionAid and VSO staff, volunteers and partners whocontributed to the country research, including:Christy Abraham, Solomon Adebayo, Samia Ahmed, Maria Amjad, Juliet Bavuga,Smriti Bhattarai, Menno Bongers, Tasallah Chibok, Winston Chirombe, WedzeraiChiyoka, Dr. Rumeli Das, Charlotte Vidya Dais, Wubishet Desinet, Arturro Echeverria,Alma de Estrada, Nontuthuzelo Fuzile, Gezahagn Gezachew, Cynthia Gobrin-Sono,Shukria Gul, Innocent Hitayezu, Mohammed Kamal Hossain, David Lankester, AnchitaJahatik, Faiza Javaid, Sara Joseph, Farah Kabir, Lute Kazembe, Dr P. Manish Kumar,Etelvina Mahanjane, Vidyacharan Malve, Aveneni Mangombe, Shiji Malayil, Maia Marie,Sipho Mtathi, Dagobert Mureriwa, Lutfun Nahar, Hannah Pearce, Roberto Pinauin,Stephen Porter, Claudia Areli Rosales, Sanjay Singh, Sudhir Singh, Shyamalangi,Srinivas, Rimmy Taneja, Carine Terpanjian, Chinyere Udonsi, Whelma Villar-Kennedy,Lumeng Wang, Annemieke van Wesemael, Mohammad Arif Yusuf, Kazi KarishmaZeenat, Qingtian Zheng.With thanks for their input to:Avni Amin, Emma Bell, Brook Baker, Belinda Calaguas, Sara Cottingham, MartaMontesó Cullell, Leona Daly, Dorothy Flatman, Susana Fried, Gerard Howe, RichardHowlett, Beri Hull, Dieneke Ter Huurne, Clive Ingleby, Kate Iorpenda, Anne Jellema,Susan Jolly, Agnes Makonda Ridley, Joe McMartin, Malcolm McNeil, Bongai Mundeta,Neelanjana Mukhia, Fionnuala Murphy, Lina Nykanen, Leonard Okello, Luisa Orza,Jacqueline Patterson, Kousalya Periasamy, Fiona Pettitt, Maria Alejandra Scampini,Andy Seale, Aditi Sharma, Alan Smith, Asha Tharoor, Laura Turquet, Mary Wandia,Patrick Watt, Samantha Willan, Kemi Williams, Everjoice Win, Jessica Woodroffe.
ContentsContents 1Glossary 2Definitions 3Executive summary 51. Introduction 91.1. Structure of the report 101.2. Methodology 101.3. Overview: the feminisation of HIV and AIDS 111.4. Universal access: what is it and why arewe using it as a framework? 111.5. Why take a rights-based approachto universal access? 121.6. Achieving a rights-based approachto universal access 131.7. Gender, poverty and HIV and AIDS 132. Gender inequality, women’s rights andHIV and AIDS 142.1. Sexual and reproductive rights andviolence against women 142.2. Right to the highest attainable standardof health 162.3. Poverty and economic rights 172.4. Recommendations 184. Women’s rights and universal access toeffective treatment 304.1. Access to treatment: is there agender bias? 314.2. Adherence to treatment: it’s not justabout access 324.3. ART in resource limited settings 344.4. Recommendations 345. Women’s rights and universal access toHIV and AIDS care and support 365.1. What do we mean by ‘care and support’? 375.2. Women and girls’ access to care andsupport services 375.3. Women and girls providing care andsupport services 405.4. The impact of providing care andsupport on women and girls 425.5. Recommendations 476. Conclusion 507. Endnotes 523. Women’s rights and universal access toHIV prevention 203.1. Women’s right to education andinformation 213.2. Technologies and medical interventions:putting prevention directly in women'shands 243.3. Services: prevention of mother-to-childtransmission-Plus 273.4. Services: voluntary counsellingand testing 283.5. Recommendations 29Walking the talk putting women's rights at the heart of the HIV and AIDS response 1
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