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Gracia Violeta Rossgraciavioleta@gmail.com

Bolivian Network of People Living with HIVWomen Deliver ConferenceWashington, June 7, 2010

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Mandatory testing for pregnant women

Forced sterilization and forced abortionsDenial of services in health settingsDisclosure of HIV status to male partners/familyDirective ´counsellingµ to avoid pregnanciesRemoval of custody of childrenLack of referral from VAW to HIV servicesCervical cancer is a current problem for manywomen with HIV

´How can you do this to your own child?µ

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Strong stigma and discrimination. Women are seen as thesource of AID S

Many women are widows taking care of children, some of

those are HIV positiveMany women don·t have formal educationHuman Rights of women are not a priority on the AIDSresponse___ this has consequences on funding availableLittle involvement of women with HIV in the global AIDS

response__gender roles and cultural norms, capacity,epidemiology not showing the impact of HIV amongwomen, programs targeting women as vectors of thevirus (Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission) butnot oriented for the empowerment of women.

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F ROM GRASSROOTSWomen with HIV are notvoiceless or ignorant. Weknow what we need, butsome times there are no

people ready to listen tous.

When women speak/drawtheir needs it becomesclear that what we need is

not only a femidomdistribution service butprograms that nurture theempowerment of womenand girls

TO GLOBAL ADVOCACYHow many policies areoriented for theempowerment of women?

How much funding is thereavailable?

WWW WWW initiativeinitiativeProgramsPrograms adressingadressing VA W andVAW and

HIV inHIV in LatinLatin AmericaAmericaUNAIDSF rameworkUNAIDSF ramework forforwomenwomen andand girlsgirlsGlobalGlobal F undF und focusfocus onon civilcivilsocietysociety systemssystems. . InclusionInclusion of of gendergender analysisanalysis inin thethe grantgrantapplicationsapplications

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Magaly Chacon since 4 years ago,presented a case in the national

Ombudusman and local judges. Her childwas infected after she was left on thematernity ward 8 hours with delivery workbut no care.

Despite the doctors knew her HIV statussince her 4th month of pregnancy, she wasnot given any means of prevention. She

demanded those doctors just to find outthat the union of medical doctors are thestrongest civil society groups in Bolivia.

There has not been justice for ESPERANZA(HOPE) the name of her 4 year olddaughter who is HIV positive and almostdied with AIDS when she was 2.

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Women with HIV are part of global policy makingbodies such as UNAID S, The Global Fund, Stop TBPartnership more and more, but still not enough.

There is huge competition with other civilsociety movements: ´Who is more vulnerable?µ

AIDS is still seen as a gay topic, the feministmovement is becomming more engaged in allregions but there is resistance.Absolute numbers of people with HIV still showmen as the most affected group, that is becausegender and vulnerability dimensions are notbeing considered.

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ImagineImagine whatwhat W E can doW E can do togethertogether totostopstop thethe impactimpact of of thethe AIDSAIDSepidemicepidemic amongamong womenwomen??

ImagineImagine whatwhat happenedhappened if if therethere waswasrealreal integrationintegration of Sexual andof Sexual andReproductiveReproductive servicesservices withwith HIV/AIDSHIV/AIDS

servicesservices? ?

ImagineImagine if if thisthis happenedhappened withwith aaHumanHuman RightsRights perspectiveperspective and aand a

gendergender analysisanalysis??