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Resources and Publications
Our resources are aimed at building and enhancing supportive connections for women with HIV. We have resources for women living with HIV, and for health care and social services providers that includes topics like HIV diagnosis, treatments, HIV and pregnancy, and international trends.
Many of our resources are listed below. Contact us if you don’t see what you want and if we don’t have it, we can point you in the right direction.
Additional Sexual Health Support:
In addition to this site, we provide information on general sexual health specifically for women in midlife and beyond. Divorced and dating again? Feel you missed out on HIV prevention 101 when you were married? No problem- we’ve got your info at You Should Know. Web and workshops.
Ongoing Resources you can subscribe to (email or hard copy):
The Positive Side newsletter, a quarterly aimed at women with HIV. Stories from positive women, events, treatment news. Visit The Positive Side page.
HIV Trends and Women’s Sexual Health Report, a quarterly analysis of epidemiolgy, prevention,and treatment issues with a focus on women and girls. Of interest to positive women and service providers. To view issues, visit the Trends Report page.
Positive Currents, a quarterly e-newsletter with updates on programs, partnerships, events. To view past issues, please visit the archives.
Resources you can order or download:
HIV and pregnancy: Yes You Can. Learn about a healthy pregnancy with HIV. Includes information about getting pregnant, HIV treatment during pregnancy, delivery options and newborn testing. This is a brochure that also unfolds into an 11×17" poster.
Retreat Planning Toolkit, a guide for groups wishing to plan retreats for HIV positive women. We’ve been offering retreats for over twelve years and share ideas on:
- budgeting
- policies and promotion
- group dynamics
- nutritional and health considerations
- workshop programming and more
Download a pdf version here.
Pocket Guide for Women Living with HIV: The Pocket Guide provides simple, basic and easy-to-read information about HIV for newly diagnosed women:
- Where to Start: HIV basics, how HIV affects women, finding a doctor
- Living with HIV: information on treatments, alternative therapies, pregnancy, injection drugs, hepatitis C, nutrition
- HIV & Relationships: disclosure, safer sex, motherhood, children with HIV
Ordering info: If you want 20 or fewer Pocket Guides, we can send them to you. Otherwise, you can order them in bulk through the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange or download a PDF version.The Pocket Guide is also available for download in French.
Research Projects and Reports:
Leadership, Engagement, Action and Dialogue (LEAD): The purpose of the Leadership, Engagement, Action and Dialogue (LEAD) Project was for Positive Women’s Network (PWN) to work with women living with HIV/AIDS in British Columbia and local AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) to examine both what is working well in communities and to identify any gaps in service delivery. The project was coordinated by Emily Quinn and funded by Vancouver Foundation and Public Health Agency of Canada’s AIDS Community Action Program. Read the LEAD Final Report here.
Women’s Initiatives for Support and Education (WISE): The WISE project, a partnership of PWN and YouthCO AIDS Society, aimed at young women living with HIV and young women at risk for HIV. Barriers in Access to Primary Health Care for Young HIV+ Women (2008) used qualitative research to investigate the issues and explore best practices to improve access to care.
Listen Up!: Listen Up! (1999-2003) was a multi-stage community-based research project that examined how social factors increase women’s risk for HIV infection and illness progression. Women living with and affected by HIV were involved in the design, development and implementation of this research as advisors, peer researchers and participants.
Reports on Phases 1-4 outline women’s perceptions and realities of risk factors for HIV transmission and progression of the illness. Information is yielded from two peer-based phases and two community action phases involving the work of women across differing racial, cultural and health status groups in BC’s Lower Mainland. Work in the final phase includes women in rural BC and the creation of an HIV/AIDS Action Plan for Women.
Download Listen Up! Phase 1 Report (795KB PDF).
Download Listen Up! Phase 2 Report (776KB PDF).
Download Listen Up! Phases 3 & 4 Report (306KB PDF).
Download Escuche! Listen Up! [Spanish version] (676KB PDF).
For more information, please contact us.
For a list of HIV/AIDS and women-specific organizations and useful websites, visit our Links page.