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.

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