Treatment Monitor: Violence

Sexual violence profoundly limits women’s ability to negotiate safer sex, being able to exercise their sexual and reproductive health and rights. This is an enormous challenge as sexual violence is so prevalent. It also is devastating for women’s being able to experience sexual desire and pleasure.

Links:

• www.tlac.org.za
• One in Nine
• Women Won't Wait is an international coalition of organizations and networks working to promote women's health and human rights in the struggle to address HIV and AIDS and end all forms of violence against women and girls. Women Won't Wait seeks to speed up effective responses to the linkages of violence against all women and girls and the spread of HIV.
  Women Won't Wait, a new international coalition of women's groups launched its campaign to end HIV and violence against women has released a report: Show Us the Money: Is Violence Against Women on the HIV&AIDS Funding Agenda? Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and one of the speakers at the launch of the campaign, said that the twin epidemics of HIV and AIDS and violence against women cannot be disentangled. It is vital that the policies, programs and funding streams of national governments and international agencies transparently address the intersection of HIV and AIDS and violence against women, Robinson said. At the same time, civil society must hold both governments and agencies accountable to promoting human rights and the self-determination of women, as this coalition seeks to do.

Policy Briefs:

• From Paper to Practice: Lessons in the Implementation of Health and Victim Empowerment Policy Applicable to Rape Survivors
  - Lisa Vetten, Julia Kim, Ennica Ntlemo and Lufuno Mokwena
• Domestic Violence, Health and HIV: A review on progress made in addressing domestic violence through the HIV & AIDS and STI National Strategic Plan 2007/2011
  - Anneke Meerkotter
• Towards developing and strengthening a comprehensive response to the health care needs of rape survivors
  - Lisa Vetten and Tanya Jacobs

Articles

• Media release - One in nine campaign statement of State V. Zuma verdict
• SAMJ Forum: Compulsory HIV testing of alleged sex offenders - David McQuoid-Mason
• Court: Zuma Judgment
• Gender-based Violence in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of Demographic and Health Survey findings and their use in National Planning
• Painful lessons: The politics of preventing sexual violence and bullying at school - Nicola Jones, Karen Moore, Eliana Villar-Marquez and Emma Broadbent
• Soul City 4 - Impact Evaluation: Violence against women - Vol II
• 'What is pornography?': An Analysis of the Policy Statement of the Campaign against Pornography and Censorship - Anna Marie Smith
• World Health Organisation: Integrating gender into HIV/AIDS programmes in the health sector
• Development Connections: A Manual for Integrating the Programmes and Services of HIV and Violence Against Women - Dinys Luciano Ferdinand
• SVRI Forum 2009: Newsletter on women’s rights and HIV
• How do political parties address the problem of violence aganist women? A review of party manifestoes - Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre

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