Positive women monitoring change: A monitoring tool on access to care, treatment and support and reproductive health rights and violence against women created by and for HIV positive women

As a result of the workshops held in February 2005 by the international Community of Women Living with HIV and AIDS (ICW) in collaboration with ActionAid-managed initiative Support for the International Partnership against AIDS in Africa (SIPAA), a monitoring and evaluation tool was developed. The three main key areas examined in this workshop were access to care, treatment and support (ACTS), sexual and reproductive rights (SSR) and violence against women (VAW), as these are the barriers HIV positive women are faced with in accessing their rights. This tool intends to explore the realities of women with HIV.  The tool is intended for use by HIV positive women, and other actors working in the field of HIV and AIDS.

The first section of this tool scrutinises the women with HIV's knowledge and awareness of rights as well as the issues that concern them in the aforementioned three areas (ACTS, SSR and VAW). The second section focuses on the experiences and attitudes of the service providers working in the areas of ACTS, SSR, VAW. The third section of the tool concentrates on the governmental level.

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