Today, about 10 per cent of people living with HIV in Australia are women, yet they continue to be relatively invisible in the HIV prevention message. Women living with HIV have specific social and health-related experiences associated with HIV.
Below are resources on our website and links to other places on the internet which could prove helpful to you.
Blog Articles
(In)visible Women (Living with HIV)
Why silence equals death is back on our radar in 2018
Still living with ignorance and invisibility
Three Yearly Cervical Screens for women living with HIV
Yes, there are heterosexual people living with HIV in NSW!
Youth today: Sex, drugs and HIV
Reactions to working in the HIV sector
National Day of Women Living with HIV (NDWLHIV) is 9 March annually
If you are a woman living with HIV and you need support you can contact the Treatments Officers at Positive Life NSW by calling (02) 9206-2177
Online Resources
Living Well - information about some of the key issues for WLHIV
www.womenlivingwell.org.au
Femfatales - the National Network of Women living with HIV advisory group
www.napwha.org.au/networks-members/femfatales
Pozhet
www.pozhet.org.au
Unravelling the Law - a guide for women living with HIV
www.halc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/women_living_with_HIV.pdf
International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) - global network by and for WLHIV
www.icwglobal.org
Positive Women Victoria – support and advocacy for WLHIV
www.positivewomen.org.au
Know your body blueprint
http://www.yourbodyblueprint.org.au/
Women and HIV
www.womenandhiv.org
For your clinicians and GPs
Access to HIV treatment in Australia
Online Articles
Why women with HIV are persistently invisible – and how we can challenge it Theo Gordon, The Conversation, April 2018
