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Preface.(HIV/AIDS treatment in women's health services)(Brief Article)
The Metro DC Collaborative for Women with HIV/AIDS, a national demonstration project of the Center for Women Policy Studies (*), sought to reduce cultural, linguistic and organizational barriers to care for women with HIV/AIDS in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. Over a period of five years, from 1994 to 1999, the Center conducted a wide range of project activities to achieve this goal -- with a particular focus on identifying women's self-defined needs and developing a cadre of women living with HIV/AIDS who are empowered advocates for policy change.
The Center conducted a variety of research, training, organizing, information development and dissemination, and empowerment activities for women living with HIV/AIDS and for policy makers and AIDS service providers. The Collaborative's success can in large part be attributed to the active involvement of women living with HIV/AIDS in all aspects of the planning and implementation of the following program components:
Research to Assess Barriers to Care: The Center conducted research -- including surveys, focus groups and in-depth interviews -- to bring the voices of women to policy decision making.
Information Sharing: The Center convened information sharing meetings and other forums to bring women with HIV/AIDS together to gain information, discuss issues, identify needs and find support.
Information Development and Dissemination: The Center published 29 reports of Collaborative research and information sharing meetings, as well as a quarterly newsletter, Woman CARE News.
Training and Capacity Building: To help women with HIV/AIDS become more effective advocates and to help service providers respond to the self-defined needs of women with HIV/AIDS, the Center conducted three annual two-day "Fighting for Our Lives" advocacy training programs for women with HIV/AIDS.
Over the past five years, we have had the opportunity to work with more than 400 women living with HIV/AIDS. It has always been the Center's mission to value and respect each of these women as an expert in the health policy arena. The telling of their stories, the sharing of their lives provided the Center with a framework to identify over 100 program and policy recommendations to improve the scope, type and accessibility of comprehensive services to meet women's needs.
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