Count HIV+ Women In! Can We Count On You?

Call to Action: Count Women In…
1) The Plan
In the changing health care and biomedical prevention and care landscape, women-centered care and funding for that care must be prioritized to ensure women are tested, linked to care, and retained in high-quality care.
2) Services
Services for women living with HIV must be women-centered, comprehensive, age-appropriate, non-heterosexist, and culturally relevant care that upholds all of our human rights. Services must be useful for all women -- including transgender women, sex workers, drug users, women with mental health concerns, women of varying literacy levels and English proficiency, young women, women who have experienced violence, and women behind bars.
3) Data
Count us accurately! Trans women are not men who have sex with men. Non-identified risk is not a risk category. Define risk to include socioeconomic factors that place women at increased risk for acquisition. Disaggregate data so we can study trends among women.
4) Budgets
Budgets must include equitable funding for women-specific services that also account for the true economic and social disparities women face – including lower wages for jobs and higher costs of childcare and family responsibilities.
5) Leadership
Women living with and affected by HIV must be in leadership at all decision-making tables that impact us. Federal agencies with a responsibility to serve women living with HIV must have women’s leadership at high levels within that programmatic response.