Gender Equality And HIV/AIDS
Comprehensive Web Portal for Gender Equality Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
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Explore our site to find valuable resources, cutting-edge research, and breaking news on the gender equality dimensions of HIV and AIDS. This site aims to promote understanding, knowledge sharing and action on the gender-based inequalities propelling the HIV epidemic.
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What's NewWhat Women Want: Demands for Quality Healthcare for Women and Girls
Starting April 11, 2018, the What Women Want campaign is reaching out to ask 1 million women and girls worldwide about their top priority for quality maternal, reproductive and sexual health care.
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Women's StoriesLiving with HIV and Violence: Women of Ukraine Speak Out and Build Solidarity
Peer-support groups and the National Women’s Forum on HIV, supported by UN Women is bringing awareness, action and new beginnings for women survivors of violence living with HIV. -
In the NewsResearchers Working on a New Way to Prevent HIV Infection in Women
As socio-cultural factors women face often prevents them from negotiating condom use, it is important women have long-term, discrete HIV prevention methods available to them.
In the News
Women living with HIV are Invisible in our Society but We are Working Towards Equality
‘Invisible No Longer’, the latest report from Terrence Higgins Trust and the Sophia Forum, has shed a light on a number of issues that impact women living with HIV in the UK - particularly violence.
Join the Fight with Eve for Life
Based in Jamaica, Eve for Life is a non-governmental organization which provides psycho-social support and improving sexual and reproductive health and rights for women and girls living with or affected by HIV.
South Africa Pushes to Combat HIV Among Young Women and Girls
Experts in South Africa are grappling for ways to reduce age-disparate relationships to slow HIV infection rates in young women, reduce violence towards young women and girls and support them to stay in school.
Recent Resource
This community-led study in Malawi, Uganda and Zambia sought to understand the factors that...
This updated guidance promotes health and well-being, respect for human rights and gender equality...
UN Women's Director of Policy, Purna Sen, speaks with UN Women Policy Specialist Elena Kudravtseva...