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This guide is designed for use by a wide variety of stakeholders working in Tanzania's grassroots organizations, program designers, donors, researchers, policy makers, media, and planners and implementers of HIV and AIDS activities at all levels to strengthen HIV stigma reduction efforts in their specific contexts. The guide first provides an overview of key concepts with respect to HIV-related stigma and discrimination.

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ICRW, along with a consortium of organizations, led the Parliamentarians for Women's Health project, which sought to assist select parliamentarians in East and southern Africa to more efficiently improve women's and girls' access to health services, particularly HIV and AIDS treatment, prevention, care and counseling.

Other publications in this series:
Guide for Community Assessments on Women's Health Care
Parliamentarians for Women's Health, Project Paves the Way for Change
Parliamentarians Use Local Assessments to Connect with Their Communities
Workshops Bolster Parliamentarians as Leaders on Women's Health

Although there are a growing number of programs working to reduce stigma, few of these programs have been evaluated, particularly at the community level. Documentation and evaluation of these pioneering efforts is essential so that successful program elements can be replicated and scaled up. To help fill this gap, ICRW, the Muhimbili University College of the Health Sciences (MUCHS), the Horizons Program of Population Council, and Family Health International (FHI) conducted an evaluation of a community-based effort to reduce stigma in a peri-urban community in Tanzania.

ICRW undertook an 18-month analysis of programs that link adolescent reproductive health and livelihoods to assess the challenges and effectiveness of such programs, highlight innovative approaches and define gaps that exist in designing interventions. The resulting analysis provides a clear understanding of whether linked interventions have potential for effectively improving the lives of youth.

Women in many countries are far less likely than men to own property and assets - key tools to gaining economic security and earning higher incomes. Though laws to protect women's property rights exist in most countries, gender and cultural constraints can prevent women from owning or inheriting property. In this series, ICRW suggests practical steps to promote, protect and fulfill women's property rights.

Other publications in this series:
Women's Property Rights as an AIDS Response, Emerging Efforts in South Asia
Women's Property Rights, HIV and AIDS, and Violence in South Africa and Uganda: Preliminary Findings
Women's Property Rights as an AIDS Response, Lessons from Community Interventions in Africa
Learning How to Better Promote, Protect and Fulfill Women's Property Rights
Connecting Rights to Reality: A Progressive Framework of Core Legal Protections for Women's Property Rights

Women in many countries are far less likely than men to own property and assets - key tools to gaining economic security and earning higher incomes. Though laws to protect women's property rights exist in most countries, gender and cultural constraints can prevent women from owning or inheriting property. In this series, ICRW suggests practical steps to promote, protect and fulfill women's property rights.

Other publications in this series:
Women's Property Rights as an AIDS Response, Emerging Efforts in South Asia
Women's Property Rights, HIV and AIDS, and Violence in South Africa and Uganda: Preliminary Findings
Women's Property Rights as an AIDS Response, Lessons from Community Interventions in Africa
Mending the Gap Between Law and Practice, Organizational Approaches for Women's Property Rights
Connecting Rights to Reality: A Progressive Framework of Core Legal Protections for Women's Property Rights

As the impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic deepens in Sub-Saharan Africa, and medical interventions to extend and improve the lives of people living with HIV and AIDS become more widely available, the need to understand and counter HIV and AIDS related stigma and discrimination has grown more urgent. It is widely acknowledged that stigma is one of the "greatest barriers" to HIV care and prevention. USAID recognized that there was a dearth of data to inform the design of interventions to reduce stigma and discriminatory practices and, in response, supported a three-country research study to be conducted by the ICRW, the CHANGE Project and local partners in Africa. This report synthesizes the findings of that study.

Violence against women is increasingly seen as a key development issue that undermines economic growth. ICRW and local partners undertook a three-country study to estimate these costs at the household and community level. This brief outlines key findings.

ICRW worked to forge partnerships among institutions with expertise in HIV/AIDS, agriculture, nutrition and gender in order to improve the food security of AIDS-affected households in Uganda. This brief outlines the two phases of the project.

Working with partners in Ethiopia, Kenya, Peru, Tanzania, and Thailand, ICRW undertook a series of studies to explore how to increase intake of iron, vitamin A and iodine by combining women's productive and reproductive roles. This report summarizes the findings from the intervention research project implemented from 1995-98 in Tanzania. The focus of the study was to promote the adoption of improved home-based solar dryers as a means to enhance nutritional quality of vitamin A-rich foods and consumption of those foods by young children.