Empowering HIV-infected women
By Janet Fleischman | Wednesday, March 7, 2007 | The Boston Globe
Janet Fleischman is a senior associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies HIV/AIDS Task Force. Here she discusses the growing number of patient support movements in Africa, most of them started by women with HIV-AIDS to serve others. One such woman, Asunta Wagurs of Kenya is the example, along with the Kenyan Network of Women Living with AIDS.
HIV-infected women in Africa who want to have healthy babies stand a far better chance of safely doing so when they have access to information and services to prevent mother-to-child-transmission during pregnancy and breast feeding. Still others prefer to access HIV/AIDS information, testing, and services through maternal-child health services, thus avoiding the stigma associated with stand-alone HIV/AIDS services. Fortunately for women in Kenya, the integration of reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programs is gradually moving forward…BS
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