Promoting Women’s Leadership
Gaps in Research
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- Interventions are needed to promote HIV-positive women’s access to funding to start and lead initiatives.
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- Interventions are needed to foster the involvement of HIV-positive women and promote cooperation between PLHAs 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, S., A. Welbourn, P. Kousalya, A. Yuvaraj, S. Mall and M. Seko. 2004a. “’Oh! This One is Infected!’: Women, HIV & Human Rights in the Asia Pacific Region.” Paper Commissioned by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, from ICW. Website: www.icw.org
2. Interventions are needed to foster the involvement of HIV-positive women and promote cooperation between PLHAs 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 Ukraine (Yaremenko et al., 2004) and Botswana, Kenya, Namibia and Tanzania (Parliamentarians for Women’s Health, 2007).
Yaremenko, O., O. Balakireva, O. Levstun, A. Scherbinska, Y. Kruglov, N. Zhylka, N. Leonchuck, A. Eckman, O. Semerik, L. Flury, M. Medrek, K. Hardee. 2004. “Analytical Report: Access of HIV-positive Women to Quality Reproductive Health and Maternity Services.” Final Draft. USAID/POLICYProject: Kyiv City, Ukraine.