Women Living with HIV/AIDS

We present a new legal resource designed specifically for positive women. The two main objectives of this resource are to provide general legal information on a number of issues that are relevant and often specific to positive women and to help any positive woman living in NSW with a specific legal problem to obtain legal advice or assistance.

This resource is significant because it is, as far as we are aware, the first time that a resource focussing exclusively on the specific legal issues that are of concern to positive women has been published in Australia. Because of the nature of the HIV epidemic in Australia, the needs and concerns of positive women have often been overlooked, misunderstood or simply ignored.

There are no easy solutions to this problem of invisibility and marginalisation. We hope that by making this resource widely available, issues of concern to positive women will enjoy some amount of greater recognition and increased prominence.

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