Women, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Skills Building Workshop held in Toronto August 14-17, 2006.

CURRICULUM with ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY and CASE STUDY available online!

Online athttp://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/women_hiv_aids/contents.htm

Table of Contents
1) Overview Articles

2) Sex, Gender & Social Context in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
(a) Stigma, Discrimination, and Violence
(b) Gender, Sexuality, and HIV/AIDS
(c )Criminality and HIV/AIDS
(d) Sex Trade Work
(e) Women's Property and Inheritance Rights
(f) Orphan & Vulnerable Children in Changing Family Structures
(g) Neglected Population: Indigenous & Aboriginal Women

3) Challenges in Access to Prevention Treatment and Care
(a) Women and HIV Testing
(b) Sexual Violence
(c) Access to Post-Exposure Prophylaxis
(d) Access to Microbicides & Other Female-Controlled Prevention
(e) Access to Reproductive Health Services, including Abortion
(f) Neglected Population: Adolescent Girls
(g) Evidence-Based Practices and Policies
(h) Community and Family Based Care
(i) Gender Dimensions of Health Rationing

4) Accountability, Advocacy & Documentation

CASE STUDY:Treatment Action Campaign v. The Minister of HealthA case decided in 2002 by the Constitutional Court of South Africa whichfound that pregnant HIV-positive women had the constitutional right tomedication to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Online at: http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/casestudies.html

CURRICULUM of our Spanish workshop held August 17,“Mujeres, VIH-SIDA y derechos humanos: explorando las intersecciones”,see the RED ALAS website:http://www.red-alas.org/click on: “Publicaciones”then click on: "Capacitación”