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What will it take to achieve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV?

This article outlines progress in realizing the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls living with HIV over the last 30 years from the perspective of women living with HIV. It argues that the HIV response needs to go beyond the bio-medical aspects of HIV to achieve our sexual a...

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Autores principales: Dunaway, Keren, Brion, Sophie, Hale, Fiona, Alesi, Jacquelyne, Assan, Happy, Chung, Cecilia, Moroz, Svitlana, Namiba, Angelina, Ouma, Joyce, Owomugisha, Immaculate B, Ross, Violeta, Strachan, Sophie, Tholanah, Martha, Yuvaraj, Anandi, Welbourn, Alice
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8891932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35225088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17455057221080361
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author Dunaway, Keren
Brion, Sophie
Hale, Fiona
Alesi, Jacquelyne
Assan, Happy
Chung, Cecilia
Moroz, Svitlana
Namiba, Angelina
Ouma, Joyce
Owomugisha, Immaculate B
Ross, Violeta
Strachan, Sophie
Tholanah, Martha
Yuvaraj, Anandi
Welbourn, Alice
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Brion, Sophie
Hale, Fiona
Alesi, Jacquelyne
Assan, Happy
Chung, Cecilia
Moroz, Svitlana
Namiba, Angelina
Ouma, Joyce
Owomugisha, Immaculate B
Ross, Violeta
Strachan, Sophie
Tholanah, Martha
Yuvaraj, Anandi
Welbourn, Alice
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description This article outlines progress in realizing the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls living with HIV over the last 30 years from the perspective of women living with HIV. It argues that the HIV response needs to go beyond the bio-medical aspects of HIV to achieve our sexual and reproductive health and rights, and considers relevant Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), World Health Organization, United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Global Fund and other guidelines, what engagement there has been with women living with HIV and whether guidelines/strategies have been adopted. It has been written by women living with HIV from around the world and a few key supporters. Co-authors have sought to collate and cite materials produced by women living with HIV from around the world, in the first known effort to date to do this, as a convergence of evidence to substantiate the points made in the article. However, as the article also argues, research led by women living with HIV is seldom funded and rarely accepted as evidence. Combined with a lack of meaningful involvement of women living with HIV in others’ research on us, this means that formally recognized evidence from women’s own perspectives is patchy at best. The article argues that this research gap, combined with the ongoing primacy of conventional research methods and topics that exclude those most affected by issues, and the lack of political will (and sometimes outright opposition) in relation to gender equality and human rights, adversely affect policies and programmes in relation to women’s rights. Thus, efforts to achieve an ethical, effective and sustainable response to the pandemic are hindered. The article concludes with a call to action to all key stakeholders.
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spelling pubmed-88919322022-03-04 What will it take to achieve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV? Dunaway, Keren Brion, Sophie Hale, Fiona Alesi, Jacquelyne Assan, Happy Chung, Cecilia Moroz, Svitlana Namiba, Angelina Ouma, Joyce Owomugisha, Immaculate B Ross, Violeta Strachan, Sophie Tholanah, Martha Yuvaraj, Anandi Welbourn, Alice Womens Health (Lond) HIV and Women’s Health: Where Are We Now This article outlines progress in realizing the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls living with HIV over the last 30 years from the perspective of women living with HIV. It argues that the HIV response needs to go beyond the bio-medical aspects of HIV to achieve our sexual and reproductive health and rights, and considers relevant Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), World Health Organization, United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Global Fund and other guidelines, what engagement there has been with women living with HIV and whether guidelines/strategies have been adopted. It has been written by women living with HIV from around the world and a few key supporters. Co-authors have sought to collate and cite materials produced by women living with HIV from around the world, in the first known effort to date to do this, as a convergence of evidence to substantiate the points made in the article. However, as the article also argues, research led by women living with HIV is seldom funded and rarely accepted as evidence. Combined with a lack of meaningful involvement of women living with HIV in others’ research on us, this means that formally recognized evidence from women’s own perspectives is patchy at best. The article argues that this research gap, combined with the ongoing primacy of conventional research methods and topics that exclude those most affected by issues, and the lack of political will (and sometimes outright opposition) in relation to gender equality and human rights, adversely affect policies and programmes in relation to women’s rights. Thus, efforts to achieve an ethical, effective and sustainable response to the pandemic are hindered. The article concludes with a call to action to all key stakeholders. SAGE Publications 2022-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8891932/ /pubmed/35225088 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17455057221080361 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Dunaway, Keren
Brion, Sophie
Hale, Fiona
Alesi, Jacquelyne
Assan, Happy
Chung, Cecilia
Moroz, Svitlana
Namiba, Angelina
Ouma, Joyce
Owomugisha, Immaculate B
Ross, Violeta
Strachan, Sophie
Tholanah, Martha
Yuvaraj, Anandi
Welbourn, Alice
What will it take to achieve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV?
title What will it take to achieve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV?
title_full What will it take to achieve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV?
title_fullStr What will it take to achieve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV?
title_full_unstemmed What will it take to achieve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV?
title_short What will it take to achieve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV?
title_sort what will it take to achieve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with hiv?
topic HIV and Women’s Health: Where Are We Now
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8891932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35225088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17455057221080361
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