HIV/AIDS policies and programmes disregard the sexual needs of people living with the virus, claim a number of HIV-positive women who attended the third Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights -- held this week in Nigeria. The initiatives focus on prevention and treatment, they add, ignoring the fact that people living with HIV/AIDS who are conducting normal lives still want to experience sexual pleasure, and have children.

"The epidemic has evolved. HIV-infected people are not dying; we are living and we are having sex," noted Beatrice Were, an activist in Uganda for the Global AIDS Alliance, a non-profit based in Washington.

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