Listen up! Women are talking about

Peer based, community action research project designed to stop blaming individual women for becoming ill and focusing on the social determinants of health, particularly income, power in intimate relationships and relationships with health care providers and to increase women's voice in HIV/AIDS research. Six focus groups were conducted with women from the following communities or contexts: are living with HIV; sleep with women or are bisexual; have a mental illness; are First Nations; are current or former substance abusers; are Spanish-speaking refugees or immigrants.