title: Advancing the sexual and reproductive health and human rights of women living with HIV.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Many women living with HIV can have safe, healthy and satisfying sexual and reproductive health, but there is still a long way to go for this to be a reality, especially for the most vulnerable amongst them who face repeated violations of their rights.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The contributions in this Supplement from researchers, clinicians, programme managers, policy makers, and women living with HIV demands an important appreciation that the field of sexual and reproductive health and human rights for women living with HIV is complex on many levels, and women living with HIV form a very diverse community.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The manuscripts emphasize that attention must be paid to the following critical dimensions: 1) Placing human rights and gender equality at the centre of a comprehensive approach to health programming, in particular in relation to sexuality and sexual health; 2) Ensuring health systems responsiveness to minimizing inequalities in access to health care and quality of care that often do not meet the needs of women living with HIV; 3) Engaging and empowering women living with HIV in the development of policies and programmes that affect them; and 4) Strengthening monitoring, evaluation and accountability procedures to provide good quality data and ensuring remedies for violations of health and human rights of women living with HIV.
authors.affiliation: Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; mona.loutfy@wchospital.ca.
authors.forename: Mona
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Loutfy
authors.affiliation: Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Rajat
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Khosla
authors.affiliation: Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Manjulaa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Narasimhan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D060728:Reproductive Health; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D016387:Women's Health; D014933:Women's Rights
keywords: HIV; equity; gender; human rights; reproductive health; reproductive rights; sexual health; women's health