Women and HIV/AIDs: The Themed Issue of Canadian Woman Studies

Editorial Board: Amy Andrews, June Larkin, Claudia Mitchell,
  Relebohile Moletsane, and Esther Tharao

Table of Contents

• Framing the Issues                                                                              
• Stacked Against Us: HIV/AIDS Statistics and Women                  6

• Grandmothers Called Out of Retirement: The
  Challenges for African Women Facing AIDS Today                    10

• Le VIH/sida au féminine: Impact du diagnostic
  de séropositivité sur les conditions de vie des
  femmes hétérosexuelles du Québec                                             20

• HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal Women in Canada                                25

• Le gros lot                                                                                            33

• Gender, Youth, and HIV Risk                                                           35

• Sex Trade Workers in Halifax, Nova Scotia: What
  Are Their Risks of HIV at Work and at Home?                              44

• Réflexions Mêlées sur la santé,
  l’État, les femmes au temps du sida                                             49

• Creating a Better Life: A Brief Report on a Support
  Program for Women at Risk for Drug Related Harm                   53



• Health Promotion and Education

• Changing the Picture: Youth, Gender and
  HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaigns in South Africa                          56

• Treatment Issues for Women                                                          63

• Bridging the Gap: Integrating HIV Prevention
 into Sexual and Reproductive Health Promotion                          68

• Black Women and HIV/AIDS: Contextualizing their
  Realities, their Silence, and Proposing Solutions                       72

• Missing Links: Women, Mental Health, and the Need for a
  New Model of HIV Prevention and Sexual Health Promotion     82

• Missing the Message: HIV/AIDS Interventions
  and Learners in South African Schools                                         90

• Constrained Choices and Communication:
  HIV + Women Accessing Complementary and
  Alternative Medicine in British Columbia                                       96

• Topical Microbicides: A Viable HIV-Prevention Alternative       103

• AIDS and Sex Workers: A Case of Patriarchy Interruptus        107

• Catwoman… Le travail du sexe                                                    111

• Northern Women’s Health Outreach Project                             113

• How Do We Increase the Participation of
  Young Women in HIV/AIDS Activism?
  An Interview with Sisonke Msimang                                             116



• Living with HIV/AIDS

• Counting Pills or Counting on Pills? What HIV+
  Women Have to Say About Antiretroviral                                       118

• HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal Women: One Woman’s Story            124

• Je m’appelle Imani                                                                          127
• Supportive Housing for Women Living with HIV/AIDS               129

• South Asian Women Living with HIV/AIDS                                   131

• Lettre de moi à vous                                                                        134

• The Garden as Memento Mori: Derek Jarman
  and Jamaica Kincaid                                                                       135