Promoting Women’s Leadership
Gaps in Research
- 1.
- Interventions are needed to promote HIV-positive women’s access to funding to start and lead initiatives.
- 2.
- Interventions are needed to foster the involvement of HIV-positive women and promote cooperation between people living with HIV and AIDS and health care facilities, government and other agencies creating HIV-related programs and policies.
1. Interventions are needed to promote HIV-positive women’s access to funding to start and lead initiatives. Studies found that HIV-positive women’s networks lacked funding.
Gap noted globally (Paxton et al., 2004a; Paxton et al., 2004b; Manchester, 2004).
2. Interventions are needed to foster the involvement of HIV-positive women and promote cooperation between people living with HIV and AIDS and health care facilities, government and other agencies creating HIV-related programs and policies. Studies found that little cooperation existed between HIV-positive women and health facilities but that efforts have been underway to educate parliamentarians concerning HIV-positive women’s issues.
Gap noted, for example, in Asia and Africa (UNIFEM and ATHENA, 2010); Dominican Republic, Bangladesh and Ethiopia (IPPF et al., 2011); Ukraine (Yaremenko et al., 2004) and Botswana, Kenya, Namibia and Tanzania (Parliamentarians for Women's Health, 2007).