All NGOs that have participated in the UA Forum strongly believe that any process of building responses to reduce women’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS needs to focus on strategies to improve women’s autonomy, which includes the building of health, educational and social policies with a crossover focus on Sexual and Reproductive Rights.
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A special guideline was designed to collect data by civil society, the UNGASS-AIDS Forum on SRH& R was established in each country and the results were validated through participatory processes with representatives from different social movements. The meetings and workshops were denominated UNGASS-AIDS Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Health.
The main issue highlighted in this first phase showed that although a lot of countries had developed policies and guidelines to protect women’s sexual and reproductive health, their implementation was not satisfactory. The government’s promises and commitments were not translated into real benefits for the women, and there were frequent references in the country reports to lack of access and the low quality of services. Poor professional capacity to deal with sexual and reproductive rights and AIDS related issues was also common; the prejudice against women living with HIV was a frequent problem among different countries and so was the lack of data related gender based violence. In all countries AIDS policies and policies for women followed separate paths with no interconnection or dialogue between them.
