ABSTRACT
No doubt HIV/AIDS has had an immense impact on the position of women in society, placing additional burdens on and increasing the vulnerability of women affected and infected by HIV/AIDS.1 Women with HIV/AIDS need access to health care, information, counselling, social security and protection from various forms of discrimination. Women who are not infected with HIV have similar needs which must be fulfilled if they are to be empowered to leave abusive relationships, negotiate safer sex, make reproductive and other life choices, and to enable them to cope with the effect of HIV/AIDS on them emotionally and physically as partners, mothers and care givers.
