Position paper introducing a framework for an intersectional, equity-informed, data-driven approach to research on HIV and women and highlighting selected issues for women and gender diverse people, including HIV prevention, HIV cure, ageing with HIV, substance use and misuse, violence, pregnancy, and breastfeeding or chestfeeding
The results from this study indicate that the AI-based risk assessment predicts later stage breast cancers as high risk among women who currently are sent at home with a negative mammogram.
As a type of violence in intimate relationships, reproductive coercion encompasses a range of behaviours that exert external control over reproductive autonomy, from threats to coerce pregnancy to sabotaging contraception and controlling outcomes of a pregnancy, such as coerced abortion or forced continuation of a pregnancy. At a time when reproductive rights and bodily autonomy are under attack in many countries, and when adolescents (especially transgender and gender-diverse youth) are experiencing large barriers to health care, elucidating core characteristics of reproductive coercion, identifying harm reduction strategies, and preventing relationship abuse and reproductive coercion are of paramount importance.
This Series paper supports SDGs 3 and 5 by examining the determinants of maternal health and mortality and how these could be addressed to improve outcomes. The causes of maternal mortality, and efforts to improve maternal health, require a multipronged and multidisciplinary approach.
Women are disproportionately affected by HIV globally, and in some of the hardest hit regions, women bear the brunt of the epidemic in terms of both disease burden and care for those affected.
Women and gender diverse people remain disproportionately affected by HIV, face unique challenges and have been under-represented in HIV research.
Right to abortion and access to care support SDG 3.
XpertHR's 2023 global research report on pay equity highlighted the critical role of leaders in advancing pay equity strategy. This article discusses three key actions leaders at high-impact organizations take to design and execute on a fair pay strategy that democratizes pay, advances a people-first culture, and improves business outcomes. This article furthers SDG goals 5, 8 and 11.
Using a collaborative ethnographic action-oriented approach, we researched the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of three vulnerable groups of female labour migrants in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Our goal was to understand the health challenges faced by these women and work towards effective interventions and services. Their issues often emanate from deep-seated structural inequalities, as well as legal, socio-cultural, political, and economic factors. In this article, we highlight the interconnected and overlapping - tangible and intangible - societal impacts that arose both as a consequence of our study and as inherent components of the research process in both the short and long term.
Readdressing the narrative surrounding the AIDS epidemic and how the experience of so many vulnerable women were largely ignored during that time.
