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Positive women

Globally, women and girls now make up more than half of all people living with HIV/AIDS. Women face particular challenges in dealing with HIV — they may experience different illnesses and treatment side effects, for example, and women who become pregnant must take special precautions to prevent transmission of HIV to their children.

NAPWA's Positive Women's Network ensures that the voices of positive women are heard and valued in our national response to HIV and within our communities.

Key resources

Common Threads
Common Threads

For women living with HIV, the decision to have children can be one of the most difficult choices they make. For women who are diagnosed HIV positive at the time they are becoming mothers, those decisions can be especially urgent and confronting. In her book, KARALYN McDONALD shares the stories of several women who have dealt with the twin realities of pregnancy and diagnosis.

NAPWA AGM 2009: Women’s Network Report

Video • Katherine Leane • 7 December 2009

In this video from the NAPWA AGM, convenor of the NAPWA Positive Women's Network, Katherine Leane, reports on the activities of the network over the last year. watch video »

Common Threads

Resource • 15 October 2009

For women living with HIV, the decision to have children can be one of the most difficult choices they make. For women who are diagnosed HIV positive at the time they are becoming mothers, those decisions can be especially urgent and confronting. In her book, KARALYN McDONALD shares the stories of several women who have dealt with the twin realities of pregnancy and diagnosis. read more »

Treatments news from the IAS Conference

Positive Living article • 20 August 2009
pregnancy and childbirth

A roundup of HIV treatments developments from the IAS Conference in Cape Town. read more »

NAPWA Submission to the National Women’s Health Policy

Submission • Kate Demaere • 16 July 2009

NAPWA has worked with the NAPWA Positive Women's Network to develop a submission to the Australian Government's National Women’s Health Policy. read more »

Feeding your new baby

From Treat Yourself Right • 2 July 2009

HIV positive women are advised to bottle-feed their babies to reduce the risk of HIV transmission. read more »

Pregnancy

From Treat Yourself Right • 25 June 2009

Many women with HIV both in Australia and worldwide are choosing to become mothers. You are able to reduce the chances of your baby acquiring HIV to below 2% by taking ARVA medication or other substance which is active against retroviruses such as HIV., considering an elective caesarean delivery, and by not breastfeeding. Without these interventions, the rate of HIV infection from mother to infant is between 24-30%. read more »

Menopause

From Treat Yourself Right • 12 June 2009

Technically menopause means stopping having monthly bleeding (periods or menstruation). It marks the end of your fertility and is accompanied by significant hormonal changes. read more »

Women and clinical research

From Treat Yourself Right • 11 June 2009

Men outnumber women overwhelmingly as participants in clinicalPertaining to or founded on observation and treatment of participants, as distinguished from theoretical or basic science. research, and this is to women’s disadvantage — there are significant differences in men’s bodies and women’s, so women need to be involved in research to ensure that there is good, unbiased information about how drugs work in our bodies. read more »

Parenting Issues for Women with Disabilities

Story • Women with Disabilities Australia • 14 May 2009

Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA), the national peak body representing women with all types of disabilities in Australia, has recently published a Policy Paper entitled ‘Parenting Issues for Women with Disabilities in Australia’. read more »

Just diagnosed and pregnant?

From Treat Yourself Right • 5 January 2009

If you choose to go ahead with the pregnancy, you have a very good chance of having a baby who does not have HIV. read more »

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