5 HIV+ women on their rights

Women face multiple discrimination not only based on their gender, age, skin color or ethnicity, but also based on their health status. Taboo topics, lack of sexual education, and deep-rooted stereotypes lead to a growing number of people living with HIV in Ukraine. Girls are diagnosed with HIV twice more often than boys. Both men and women living with HIV face discrimination, but women are left behind even more, when they are HIV+. They do not have decision-making power and the chance to influence the quality of the health care services to meet their needs. The voices of women living with HIV must be heard.