HIV, Women and the Health Sector

The Sophia Forum seeks to inform its supporters about issues relating to women and HIV both here in the UK and globally. These sector-specific pages are designed to guide professionals working in these sectors to relevant and up-to-date information regarding your profession and its influence on the lives of women in relation to HIV. If you have specific queries or if you know of other articles which you would like to share with us, do please contact us on info@sophiaforum.net and we will endeavour to respond as soon as we can.

Author	Date	Title	Publisher	Format/Description	Link	Additional Information
Polly Clayden	2008	Very low rate of MTCT in women on HAART in UK and Ireland who achieve viral suppression	HIV I-Base	Web page	Link	Health Professionals - please familiarise yourself with the latest facts regarding minimal mother-to-child transmission, providing the right care, support and treatment mechanisms are in place
Positively UK	2011	Primary Care Access: How General Practice Can Better Respond To the Needs of People Living with HIV	Positively UK	Report	Link
Lesley Doyal and Jane Anderson	2003	HIV-positive African women surviving in London: Report of a qualitative study	THT	Extract from Report	Link
UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women	2005	Intersections of violence against women and AIDS	UN	Report	Link
The Sophia Forum	2009	Health AND Safety: the challenges for women of HIV and Gender Violence	The Sophia Forum	Sophia Newsletter 4	Link
The Sophia Forum	2009	In Sickness and in Health	The Sophia Forum	Sophia Newsletter 3	Link
Human Rights Watch	2007	Hidden in the Mealie Meal: Gender-based abuses and Women's HIV treatment in Zambia	Human Rights Watch	Report	Link
Global AIDS Alliance	2008	Violence Against Women and Girls & HIV/AIDS	Global AIDS Alliance	Factsheet	Link
ICW	2006	Testing and the Rights of HIV Positive Women	ICW	Article	Link
JANAC	2002	Tough Choices…And the Right to Choose	JANAC	Editorial	Link
David Smith	2009	African women with HIV coerced into sterilisation	Guardian	Article	Link
ICW	2006	Silent Voices	ICW	Report	Link
Alice Welbourn	2009	Women, HIV and Human Rights: the crisis of criminalisation	The Salamander Trust	Transcript	Link	Transcript of Presentation at International Womens Day event, hosted by the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS, ActionAid International and Interact Worldwide
The Salamander Trust	2009	The Women, HIV and Motherhood Project	The Salamander Trust	Audio Project	Link
Alice Welbourn	2009	Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Stories of despair. determination and resilience of the spirit	The Salamander Trust	Presentation	Presentation Powerpoint	Presentation at WHO Seminar on HIV and Disability, Geneva
Drs. Susan Paxton and Alice Welbourn	2004	“Oh! This one is infected!” Women, HIV & Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region	UN	Excerpts from a report	Link
Alice Welbourn	2009	Balancing on Wheels of Hope	openDemocracy	Article	Link	Article about support for positive health workers around the world
Odetoyinbo, Stephens and Welbourn	2009	Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV in health care	Journal of the International AIDS Society	Article	Link
The Sophia Forum and Positively Women	2010	Response to: Mainstreaming the commissioning of local services to address violence against women and girls	The Sophia Forum and Positively Women	Consultation Response	Link	Joint submission from The Sophia Forum and Positively Women in response to Government consultation.