General
A PORTUGUESE SURVIVAL KIT!
The Survival Kit a key ICW publication developed by positive women. The survival kit now exists in English, French, Spanish, Thai, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Urdu, Russian and Ki-Swahili.
The file called - ICW_KIT_PORT.pdf - contains the entire Survival Kit including the fact sheets. Or you can download the fact sheets individually.
Women and Girls Living with HIV/AIDS: Overview and Annotated Bibliography
Women and Girls Living with HIV/AIDS: Overview and Annotated Bibliography, Esplen, E. and The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), February 2007 Women's social, economic, and legal disadvantage is exacerbated by a positive HIV status, and vice versa. This report - consisting of an overview and annotated bibliography - considers the specific challenges faced by women and girls who are living with HIV and AIDS. Policy-makers must take their insights seriously. (También en español) http://www.siyanda.org/Static/esplen_women_hiv.htm
Positive Women's Survival Kit
A Positive Woman’s Survival Kit has been produced in English (attached), French, Spanish and Russian, Portuguese (links below), Urdu, Thai and Kiswahili (please write to info@icw.org for copies) 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.
- Spanish
- French - fact sheets
- Portuguese
- Russian (link to large file - 3MB) - information in Russian about the Surivival Kit
Women with AIDS: Commonwealth casualties
Article by Alice Welbourn on ACTS in the Commonwealth Health Ministers Reference Book Extract - Around 40.3 million people were living with HIV in the world at the end of 2004. Around two thirds of them, myself included, are citizens of the Commonwealth. I’ve been HIV-positive now for over 16 years. I’m fit and healthy, thanks to good medical, dental, nursing and pharmaceutical care, enough food and support from my friends and family; since March 2000, I have been on antiretroviral therapy – luckily with few side-effects. But my story is very different from the stories of most of the 17 to 19 million HIV-positive women in the world – including many in the UK.