Publications
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Non-ICW resources
ICW resources
Women and Girls Living with HIV/AIDS: Overview and Annotated Bibliography
Esplen, E. and ICW, February 2007, Sussex: BRIDGE
http://www.siyanda.org/Static/esplen_women_hiv.htm
Available in English, Spanish and French
ICW Poster: Participation Tree
ICW Poster This is a large download - 1.2Mb JPG file.
This participation tree helps access where organisations are in relation to the involvement of HIV positive women and their organisations. Accompanying text for poster
ICW News
ICW News has been produced quarterly since 1996. It has proved an important tool in reducing the isolation of HIV positive women. Currently it is distributed to over 5,000 members and other organisations involved in HIV/AIDS work.
- ICW News #39 (2007) (English)
- ICW News #39 (2007) (Spanish)
- ICW News #39 (2007) (French)
- ICW News #38 (2007) (English)
- ICW News #37 (2007) (English)
- back issues
A Positive Womens Survival Kit (1999)
A Positive Woman’s Survival Kit has been produced in English, French, Spanish and Russian, Urdu, Thai, Kiswahili and Portuguese and distributed to thousands of women across the globe. The Survival Kit is also used by HIV positive women in many parts of the world when running workshops for other HIV positive women.
- English version and Fact sheets
- Spanish version
- Portuguese version
- Russian (link to large file - 3MB) - information in Russian about the Surivival Kit
- Fact sheets - French
Treatment Mappings (2006)
Now available - results from 3 mappings of HIV positive women's experiences of care, treatment and support in Namibia, Kenya and Tanzania, conducted by ICW.
ICW/GCWA Fact sheets (2006)
The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) with support from the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA) has produced three fact sheets. These frame key advocacy messages based on the findings of ICW project work on HIV positive women’s access to care, treatment and support, violence against HIV positive women, and sexual and reproductive rights of positive women.
NEW - Vision Paper 6 (2007)
Vision Papers (2004)
- HIV Positive Young Women
- Access to Care, Treatment and Support (ACTS)
- HIV Positive Women, Poverty and Gender Inequality
- HIV Positive Women and Human Rights
- Participation and Policy Making: Our Rights
La Vision de ICW (2004)
- Les Jeunes Femmes Séropositives
- Accès à la Prise en charge, au Traitement et au Soutien (APTS)
- Les Femmes Séropositives, la Pauvreté et l’Inégalité des Genres
- Les Femmes Séropositives et les Droits de la Personne
- Participation et Elaboration de Politiques – Nos droits
La Vision de ICW (2004)
- Mujeres Jóvenes Seropositivas
- Acceso a Atención, Tratamiento y Apoyo (AATA)
- Mujeres Seropositivas, Pobreza y Desigualdad de Género
- Mujeres Seropositivas y Derechos Humanos
- Participación y Creación de Políticas – Nuestros Derechos
- Visibility, Voices and Visions: A Call for Action from HIV positive women to policy makers (2004) - English
- Visibilidad, Voces y Visiones: Participación y Creación de Políticas – Nuestros Derechos - Español
- Visibilité, Voix et Visions: un Appel à l'Action Lancé par les femmes séropositives aux dirigeants politiques - Français
ICW ARTICLES IN NON-ICW PUBLICATIONS
- ICW/ICRW article on Parliamentarians for Women's Health project in Namibia (2007)
- Joint ICW and GNP+ article on SRH featured in Reproductive Health Matters
Sexual and Reproductive Health Services and HIV Testing: Perspectives and Experiences of Women and Men Living with HIV and AIDS, By Emma Bell, Promise Mthembu, Sue O’Sullivan on behalf of the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, and Kevin Moody on behalf of the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (2007)
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ICW guest editor for Autumn 2006 issue of 'Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender' - Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender is a quarterly - 16-page magazine on HIV/AIDS from the perspective of gender, sexuality and sexual health. This issue of Exchange focuses on some pressing concerns of women living with HIV and AIDS. Download latest issue - Autumn 2006:
English (pdf)
French (pdf)
Portuguese (pdf)
- HIV testing and the rights of women living with HIV, article by ICW in AIDS Legal Network publication September 2006
- Disponible en Español
- Oxfam's journal - Gender and Development features an article on ICW's advocacy training and development workshop with HIV positive women from South Africa and Swaziland (2005)
- A profile of our current work as featured in the International Journal of Health and Human Rights (2005)
- Editorial by ICW in Equanet news on access to care, treatment and support (2006)
- Commonwealth Health Ministers' Reference Book, Article by Alice Welbourn (2006)
- Sex, Life and the Female Condom: Some Views of HIV Positive Women, Alice Welbourn, Reproductive Health Matters, 2006;14(28):1–9
JOINT PUBLISHED ARTICLES
- Policy brief from the Guttmacher Institute, entitled ‘Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of People Living with HIV’. Published jointly with ICW among others.
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Advocates Brief developed by the Global Campaign for Microbicides in close collaboration with ICW on HIV positive women and microbicides (2006)
ICW ARTICLES
- Sex, Life and the Female Condom: some views of HIV positive positive women (2005)
- Women, HIV and a fairy tale: 8 requests for the G8 (2005)
- The Three Ones - Can they work for HIV positive women? (2005)
- A critical look at the UNGASS indicators (2005)
- Challenges of the Funding Environment for a Global Network for Social Justice (2005)
- 8 reasons why ABC does not work! (2004)
- Generics in Argentina: a test still to be passed (2004)
- Pharmacists Listen to HIV Positive Women (2004)
- 3 by 5 and HIV positive women (2004)
- 8 Myths about women and HIV/AIDS (2004)
- HIV positive women/girls and orphans (2004)
- Linked services and HIV positive women (2004)
- Microbicides and HIV positive women (2004)
- Where are the young women's voices? (2003)
- Frequently asked questions about women, girls and HIV (2003)
PRESS RELEASES
- A shameful campaign that blames HIV positive women should be stopped, says ICW (2006)
- HIV testing must be kept voluntary and confidential, says ICW (2006)
- It’s Time to Deliver for Everyone in Toronto says ICW (2006)
- Violence tolerated while HIV is on the rise (2005)
- HIV medications: confirmation that quality is dubious (ICW Latina - 2005)
- ICW responds to criticism from US Senator Tom Coburn (2005)
- ICW response to WHO HIV Department 3x5 Update - June 2005
- There must be no more talk of leaving us to get sick and die, Uganda (2005)
- ICW Response to 3 by 5 Progress Report -Equal numbers does not mean equal access (2005)
- Bolivian HIV positive advocates campaign for drugs which will save lives (2004)
- HIV positive advocates from Burkina Faso campaign for access to treatment (2004)
- Legal cases in the UK and HIV positive women (2004)
- South Africa ignores HIV positive women (2004)
- Young HIV positive African women are at the forefront of the fight for rights, recognition and prevention (2004)
- World AIDS Day Statement - Here is a document outlining our aims and goals as described at the World AIDS Day 2002.
TOOLS AND GUIDES
- Sexual and Reproductive Health for HIV-Positive Women and Adolescent Girls Manual for Trainers and Programme Managers, Engenderhealth and ICW, 2006 - Available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
- Working Positively: A guide for NGOs Managing HIV/AIDS in the workplace
- Positive Women Measuring Change: A monitoring tool on access to care, treatment and support, sexual and reproductive health and rights and violence against women created by and for HIV positive women, May 2005, An ICW – SIPAA collaboration (updated 2006)
Guidelines for Improving CCMs Through Greater PLHIV Involvement
- The Guidelines in English
- The Guidelines in French
- The Guidelines in Spanish
- The Guidelines in Russian
- The Guidelines in Thai
These guidelines can be used as an advocacy tool to assist all stakeholders in Global Fund processes to help ensure that PLHIV concerns and issues are addressed as fully as possible. (They can also be adapted for use when working with other multisectoral or coordinating bodies at local, district, provincial, or regional levels.)
English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Russian editions of Challenging, Changing, and Mobilizing, A Guide to PLHIV Involvement in Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanisms
Provides tools for strengthening People Living with HIV/AIDS' involvement in Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanisms.
English Version
Etude menée dans plusieurs pays sur la participation de Personnes Vivant avec le VIH/SIDA (PVVS) dans les Instances de Coordination Nationale (CCM)
Una investigación multi-país sobre la participación de las personas viviendo con VIH/SIDA (PVVIH) en los Mecanismos de Coordinación de País (CCM)
لوﺪﻟا ةدﺪﻌﺘﻣ ﺔﺳارد
ﻦﻴﺑﺎﺼﻣ نﻮﺸﻴﻌﻳ ﻦﻳﺬﻟا صﺎﺨﺷﻷا كاﺮﺷﻹ
ﺐﺴﺘﻜﻤﻟا ﺔﻳﺮﺸﺒﻟا ﺔﻋﺎﻨﻤﻟا ﺺﻘﻧ سوﺮﻴﻔﺑ / زﺪﻳإ
ﺔﻳﺮﻄُﻘﻟا ﻖﻴﺴﻨﺘﻟا تﺎﻴﻟﺁ ﻲﻓ
ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ УЧАСТИЯ ЛЮДЕЙ, ЖИВУЩИХ С ВИЧ/СПИД (ЛЖВС), В КООРДИНАЦИОННОМ МЕХАНИЗМЕ СТРАНЫ (КМС)
The Directory of Associations of People Living with HIV/AIDS, Synergy Project, GNP+, ICW, 2004 (a large download - 2.4Mb)
Print copies may be ordered via the USAID publications page at:
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/aids/Publications/index.html
Fulfilling reproductive rights for women affected by HIV: A tool for monitoring achievement of Millennium Development Goals, Ipas, ICW, CHANGE and the Pacific Institute for Women's Health (2004)
Guidelines on ethical participatory research with HIV positive women (2004)
VOICES AND CHOICES REPORTS
- Voices & Choices Thailand - Report from the Voices and Choices Thailand Project (2004)
- The following publication from ICW also uses research from the Thailand Voices and Choices work:
- Oh, this one is infected - ICW's report on Women, HIV and Human Rights in the Asia Pacific region (2004)
- The House of Our Dreams: building a positive future: proceedings of the ICW Voices and Choices workshop, Bobo Djioulasso, Burkina Faso, 1-7 August 2003 (available from ICW in hard copy)
- Voices and Choices Zimbabwe report - Report from the Voices and Choices Project (2002)
WORKSHOP REPORTS
The Tides Foundation/Collaborative Fund invited ICW to coordinate a new fund of US$225,000 for treatment literacy initiatives for women and children in Africa. Our regional coordinators, Lillian and Gcebile, organised a treatment preparedness skills building workshop focusing on Women, Families and Children 28th – 30th November 2005 – Kampala – Uganda. Download the report from the workshop
Workshops on Monitoring Government Commitment in Lesotho and Swaziland on VAW, SRHR and ACTS (2005) - ICW and Support to International Partnership against AIDS in Africa (SIPAA)
Young Women's Dialogue, Workshop Report, Youth AIDS African Network, Gender AIDS Forum and ICW, April 2004
Macdonald, Mandy, 2000, From Hope to Power: Positive Women's African Empowerment Training- Uganda 25-30 May 1999, ICW and National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda (NACWOLA) (available from emma
icw.org)
Treatment Literacy and Advocacy Workshop, South Africa - report (2004)
Representatives of the Positive Women's Network India met in December, 2004, for a national consultation - Shaping a New Reality. The Vision Document of the PWN was produced at the consultation as well as a declaration by women living with HIV/AIDS in India. You can view the declaration here (please note it is a large gif file), and the Vision Document (PDF file). For more information about PWN see www.pwnplus.org.
DECLARATIONS
Buenos Aires Declaration 2004 - Human Rights, Women and AIDS
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
- Reproductive rights for women affected by HIV/AIDS: A project to monitor Millennium Development Goals 5 and 6 (2005), Ipas, Fundación de Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer (FEIM) did so in Argentina, the Gender AIDS Forum in South Africa, the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) in Lesotho and Swaziland, de Encuentro de la Comunidad, A.C. (PECAC) in Mexico, and Women Fighting AIDS in Kenya (WOFAK)
- Report from the second trial of the tool, featuring input from ICW Nambia and ICW Botswana.
- Oh, this one is infected - ICW's report on Women, HIV and Human Rights in the Asia Pacific region (2004)
- Dreams and Desires: World AIDS Day - The Reality of Being an HIV Positive Woman Unfolds in 13 Personal Stories. Booklet from the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and ICW, 2004 (pdf)
- Sixth International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific - Abstracts - 5th October 2001 Melbourne, Australia - (a large download - 6.1Mb executable, PC only)
Position Statement: Injecting Drug Users and Access to HIV Treatment The Global Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (GNP +) and The International Community of Women Living with HIV and AIDS (ICW)
ICW E News
ICW produces an email update of our activities, for example, events, projects, publications, and advocacy work. If you would like to receive this update please write to icw at: enewsicw.org.