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This article examines the challenges faced by women living with HIV in Kyrgyzstan through interviews with HIV care and advocacy professionals. The study finds that women experience intersecting forms of stigma, discrimination, intimate partner violence, and economic insecurity at personal, community, and institutional levels, which can limit their access to support and care. The authors call for stronger protections of confidentiality, greater…
UNAIDS report on the global AIDS pandemic 2020 shows that women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa continue to be the most affected and accounted for 59% of all new HIV infections in the region in 2019, with 4500 adolescent girls and young women between 15 and 24 years old becoming infected with HIV every week. Young women accounted for 24% of new HIV infections in 2019, despite making up only 10% of the population in sub-Saharan Africa.
On Zero Discrimination Day this year, UNAIDS is challenging the discrimination faced by women and girls in all their diversity in order to raise awareness and mobilize action to promote equality and empowerment for women and girls.
Across the world, gender inequality, violence, poverty and insecurity continue to stoke excessive HIV risk among women and girls, especially those in marginalized and excluded communities.