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This paper explores the relationship between economic independence, empowerment, and reproductive health for girls and young women. With a focus on East and Southern Africa, it uses examples of promising programs to highlight potential responses and lessons learned.
This publication highlights approaches and examples to promote and protect gender equality as a key element in strategies to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS. The guide outlines a number of successful local, national, regional, and international initiatives that demonstrate how mainstreaming a gender equality perspective into HIV/AIDS programs and policies can yield positive results and transform the national AIDS response. It provides a number of…
In this report, research was conducted in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Ukraine with policy influencers, women and girls living with HIV, and male partners of women living with HIV to explore issues of sexual and reproductive health needs of individuals, family planning, maternal care, and more. Findings revealed that many challenges women and girls living with HIV are due to stigma and discrimination, limited access to information, and poor family and…
Sexual and reproductive health services for HIV-positive women and adolescent girls are limited, often due to low priority of services and discrimination against people living with HIV. This manual illustrates links between HIV, sexual and reproductive health, and gender inequalities faced by HIV-positive women and their families.
In this review, the two main topics discussed are the impact of gender on the HIV/AIDS epidemic and how to integrate gender into HIV/AIDS programs and policies. In the first section, there are detailed descriptions of sociocultural factors that define femininity and masculinity, economic factors that subordinate women, and additional vulnerabilities adolescent girls and children face. The next section gives technical support on how to integrate…
This report recognizes gender inequality as one of the principle drivers of HIV and critiques current responses as not adequately addressing eco-systemic factors that increase woman and girls’ vulnerabilities to HIV. It provides suggestions to secure women’s rights, invest more funds in HIV programs for women, and involve more women in government.
The Gender Responsive Budgeting Resource Pack provides knowledge to facilitate gender-responsive approaches into reproductive health and other national policies to support gender equality. There are briefs on various issues in this resource pack, including an introduction to gender responsive budgeting and how it links to key reproductive health and human rights issues. Under ‘Some Key Linkages,’ there is a section on HIV/AIDS and Reproductive…
This manual was designed by a resource group of young women leaders from nine countries, focusing on critical issues of HIV/AIDS, sexual health, self-esteem, violence against women, and more. The objective of this manual is to facilitate trainings and use engaging workshops to successfully teach young women ways to empower themselves and act on key issues that affect their livelihood and well-being. Training material on HIV and AIDS can be found…
These fact sheets intertwine gender as part of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and provide gender-sensitive, topic-specific information on the core areas of HIV/AIDS. Some of these areas include Human Rights, Education, Global Commitments, Young People, Male Participation, Conflict Situations, Rural Development, and Monitoring and Evaluation.
The study on the Socio-Economic Impact of HIV and AIDS was conducted in the six high prevalence states of India. The study was aimed to assess the impact of HIV and AIDS on households and make projections at the macro and sectoral level. This report displays the adverse impact of HIV and AIDS on women and female children and highlights the heavy burden of care, domestic work and economic responsibilities on women in the HIV households and the…
This review explores the specific issues that cluster around the provision of 'care' in the context of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The authors argue that the economic concept of the 'care economy' provides a useful lens through which to view the HIV/AIDS pandemic, as it illuminates the increased labour, time and other demands placed upon households and shows that the assumptions on which norms and expectations of care provision are based are…
This training manual on gender responsive budgeting (GRB) is intended to build the capacity of staff in applying gender budget analysis tools in their programming around gender equality and women’s rights, it will also assist them in supporting gender budget initiatives wherever they exist. The manual specifically seeks to build understanding of GRB as a tool for promoting gender equity, accountability to women’s rights as well as efficiency and…
This article considers the impact of AIDS on women's roles and responsibilities within the household 'care economy.' It emphasizes that all interventions aimed at reversing the epidemic need to take into account the excessive work-load that members of the household, usually women, shoulder in responding to the needs of sick family members. Most notably, gender equality and care economy issues need to be identified by development programmes…
Women account for nearly half of HIV infections worldwide and almost two-thirds of those among young people, with female infections rising in almost every region. Yet 25 years into the global AIDS epidemic, there is still no widely-available technology that women can control to protect themselves from HIV. This is a brief that addresses women's lack of resources to protect themselves from infection and highlights the need for strategies and…
This article explores the gender dimensions of the AIDS pandemic, focusing on its impact on the girl child. It draws on the rights-based approach and argues that the protection and recognition of the rights of the girl child are essential in the face of the AIDS pandemic in Southern Africa. The article gives insights into some innovative programmes that have been developed in Zimbabwe and recommendations for improving the conditions of, and…
This section focuses on sex workers and their under representation in HIV prevention and treatment initiatives. It briefly looks at HIV/AIDS and sex work internationally, providing some statistics and comments about specific countries. It also examines related issues such as drug use and young and uninformed sex workers. The environment sex work often takes place in and the typical clients of sex workers are also discussed. This section…
There is now greater urgency for global policy action because child brides are increasingly more vulnerable to HIV infection. This policy guide is part of a wider advocacy strategy to raise awareness on child marriage and its effects on communities. It is also part of the wider initiative on preventing HIV infection, particularly among adolescent girls and it aims to stimulate decision- makers worldwide, in particular government policy-makers,…
This training manual is a tool for those aiming to promote gender equity and address masculinity as a strategy for the prevention of HIV infection. It promotes the positive aspects of masculinity, encourages men's participation in sexual and reproductive health, promotes respect for sexual diversity and improves the understanding of the body and sexuality. In this Manual, HIV prevention is addressed within the larger framework of gender roles…
This publication is about UNIFEM project with Indian Railways on HIV/AIDS. It is an odyssey through a successful project and its various interventions and the interaction of diverse participants who create innovative techniques to challenge the consequences of HIV/AIDS and its gender dimensions. It is a collection of photographs and videos about the railway community of Vijaywada, Andhra Pradesh that showcase the efforts of peer counselors…
This report, commissioned by ActionAid International, reviews the existing publicly available Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) data on Stepping Stones. The review aims to: 1) contribute to the understanding of what Stepping Stones has and has not been able to achieve during the past ten years and 2) critique existing M&E documentation on Stepping Stones and how improve moving forward.