Global Review of HIV/AIDS Treatment Access for Women: Announcement and Call for Literature

UN Women has commissioned a global review of HIV/AIDS Treatment Access for Women. This review seeks to identify key gaps related to women’s access to treatment and understand the barriers women face in the pathway to accessing treatment and care with particular focus on gender equality and human rights. AVAC, ATHENA and Salamander Trust have been selected to coordinate this review, and they look to your expertise to inform this effort.

The review coordinators seek to study the impact of structural and social factors (at national policy, service delivery, community, socio‐cultural and individual levels) on women’s access to treatment. There are gaps in knowledge in access for women and girls living with HIV, in all their diversity, that they hope to inform. The aim is to provide information and recommendations that will be critical to realizing many of the individual and public health benefits of effective long-term quality HIV care, treatment access and coverage, including scalable key strategies for addressing and integrating gender equality and human rights into national HIV treatment programs.

The review coordinators are currently developing the literature review on the barriers women living with HIV face in accessing HIV treatment and care.

They are seeking studies that explore the barriers at the individual, household and community level as well as at the level of the health centre, that could prevent or discourage women from accessing (and adhering to) treatment and care.  Please also share studies on the impact of national and global policies and processes, especially if they include a relevant gender analysis. Information about studies that are small scale and participatory as well as larger scale more experimental or quasi-experimental studies as well as examples of good practice, with details regarding how they have specifically sought to facilitate treatment access for women are also welcome.

Please email all literature and direct any questions to womentxrights@gmail.com

For more information, please download the documents below:

ARABIC-Global-Treatment-Access-Review.pdf
ENGLISH-Global-Treatment-Access-Review.pdf
FRENCH-Global-Treatment-Access-Review1.pdf
RUSSIAN-Global-Treatment-Access-Review.pdf
SPANISH-Global-Treatment-Access-Review.pdf