CHANGE; ICW; Ipas; and PIWH. 2004. Fulfilling Reproductive Rights for Women Affected by HIV: A Tool for Monitoring Achievement of Millennium Development Goals.

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CHANGE; ICW; Ipas; and PIWH. 2004. Fulfilling Reproductive Rights for Women Affected by HIV: A Tool for Monitoring Achievement of Millennium Development Goals. 14p. Available online at: http://www. genderhealth.org/pubs/MDGNov2004.pdf

On 8 March 2004, over 25 national and international organisations presented a statement to the secretariat of the UN Commission on the Status of Women that highlighted neglected areas in HIV-positive women's health. The statement has since been used to develop this practical tool that aims to critically tackle important areas of SRH, including the involvement of HIV-positive women in policymaking and programme implementation, fertility control that meets HIV-positive women needs and research on antiretroviral therapy in relation to fertility. The catalyst for creating this tool was the fact that many NGOs and CBOs have no formal or extensive research capacity, being unable to conduct large-scale baseline and follow-up surveys and therefore are not in as position to measure percentage increases and decreases. Nonetheless, many organisations can collect information that is useful for assessing whether progress has been made in fulfilling complete SRHR for HIV-positive women. A simple set of benchmarks and accompanying questions are proposed that can be used for undertaking such an exercise. Data to answer the questions can be gathered through both qualitative and quantitative means. This document is organised into sections: Section 1 introduces the relevant MDGs and neglected areas of reproductive health; Section 2 contains brief background information on the issues; Section 3 provides the data collection questions linked to MDGs 5 and 6; Section 4 gives some ideas on how the collected data can be used; and Section 5 lists the organisations that support the use of this tool. By connecting the questions to the MDGs, the organisations who participated in this publication hope that comparable data across countries and regions can be collected annually for presentation at national and international venues where HIV/AIDS policies and programmes are being formulated and reviewed.