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/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 NewA Transformative Framework for Women, Girls and Gender Equality in the Context of HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
This report consults adolescent women and young girls on how to achieve gender equality in the HIV response and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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Women's StoriesAnnah Sango, Zimbabwe: Women and Girls and HIV Prevention
Annah Sango, from Zimbabwe, is a vocal youth activist for HIV prevention. Here she speaks about how HIV has impacted her life, and the need for more young women and girls to get involved in its prevention.
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In the NewsHow Black Moms and Daughters Can Fight to Reduce HIV Rates
Project DASH is a mixed-methods study that explores the relationship and communication between daughters and their mothers living with HIV as predictors of sexual behaviors and HIV risk of the daughters.
In the News
In Chhattisgarh, HIV-positive Women Give Birth to Healthy Babies
At least 213 HIV-infected women have given birth to healthy babies in the government-run hospitals of Chhattisgarh in 2016-17, a State health official has said. “The health department is committed to secure the child from infection in the womb of a HIV-positive mother,” Chhattisgarh’s health services director R. Prasanna told PTI. The multi-medicine treatment process has yielded better results,...
Gracious Dreams has given me hope for a brighter future
Gracious is an 18-year-old girl who was diagnosed with HIV at the age of 13. However, her family was afraid to tell her about her HIV status and instead told her that she had a heart condition. Gracious told her friends at school that she was on medication for her heart condition. However, the friends suspected that she was HIV-positive because she was often sick. Gracious took her medication to...
South Africa: Listen to the Girl Child, Pleads First Lady Tobeka Madiba-Zuma
President Jacob Zuma's wife, Tobeka Madiba-Zuma, on Saturday launched the Listen to the Girl Child campaign in KwaZulu-Natal. The Tobeka Madiba-Zuma Foundation, in partnership the eThekwini Municipality and the UN Aids programme, said it led a dialogue in sexual health, violence directed at children, girls and women, for 500 girls from schools around Inanda, KwaMashu and Ntuzuma in Durban. The...
Recent Resource
An unmet need for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and HIV services is substantial...
This study aimed to determine if integrated family planning and HIV services led to an increased use...
This toolkit was developed based on the experiences of women living with HIV engaged in the...