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Interventions to increase the knowledge of people living with HIV — especially women — regarding their rights and provision of resources for them to access and claim these rights need to be scaled up. Studies found that women had insufficient knowledge of their legal rights and no resources to claim their legal rights.
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
1 study
Judicial action, legislation, and training on legal rights can protect people living with HIV from discrimination. Studies found that people reported being denied housing or being evicted for testing HIV-positive but that peer education on legal rights may increase protect people from discrimination. [See also %{s:61}]
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
1 study
Supportive legal and policy frameworks are needed to prevent and redress all forms of violence against women, particularly women living with HIV, women engaged in sex work and women who have sex with women, including in intimate partner settings. [See %{c:7} and %{s:59}]
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
1 study
Efforts are needed to further research and repeal laws that criminalize HIV non-disclosure, exposure or transmission — including vertical transmission of HIV—, which can discourage people from testing for HIV, and undermine the relationship between patients and physicians and other service providers. Because women are more likely to be tested, legal mandates to disclose HIV-positive serostatus may discourage women from accessing needed services and may lead to increased risk of abandonment and violence (see sections on VAW, HTC, etc).
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
1 study
Women’s right and access to, and control over, an equitable share of marital property and inheritance, including land, needs to be recognized and protected in law and practice.
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
1 study