The intended purpose of this compendium is to provide program managers, organizations, and policy makers with a menu of indicators to better "know their HIV epidemic/know their response" from a gender perspective in order to: strengthen national and subnational stakeholders' understanding of their HIV epidemic and response from a gender equality perspective; monitor progress towards eliminating gender-based inequities in HIV responses, and monitor and evaluate programs that address specific types of gender equality interventions in the context of HIV.

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