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This report is a summary of the Day of Dialogue which was held to provide representatives of concerned women's organizations, HIV/AIDS organizations; reproductive health organizations and others with the opportunity to focus on Women and HIV/AIDS prevention. This report was prepared by the Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA) to allow the findings of the Day to be considered at the Expert Group Meeting on the HIV /AIDS Pandemic and its…
This paper prioritizes five main dimensions of women's access to Microbicide use including: 1. Acceptability and use; 2. Supportive policy and social environment; 3. availability; 4. Affordability; and 5. Regulatory approval and licensing. It is written from the user's perspective and contains background information, goals, objectives, and activities for each dimension.
This publication provides an introduction to the subject of men and HIV/AIDS in relation to the work of UNFPA, carried out in partnership with UN agencies, governments and civil society organizations at all levels. As action intensifies, it will be important to recognize the positive and caring behaviour of many men, who do practise safe sex, treat women as equals, behave in non-violent ways and share in family care-giving. It will also be…
This paper examines women and youth in the context of HIV/AIDS in Kazakhstan. Contents include background information on the country and the epidemiological situation with respect to HIV infection. Additionally, topics such as drug use, sexual behavior, prevention policy, and the role of public and private organizations are addressed.
A growing number of studies have documented the high prevalence of intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women worldwide. This violence can and does contribute to women's increased risk of HIV infection. However, questions remain about the connections and complexities between different forms of violence against women (VAW) and HIV/AIDS. Further research is needed to understand exactly how these two areas overlap and the…
The Female Health Company has developed the "Female Condom Programming Kit" to help policy makers, programme managers, donors and NGOs design, implement and monitor successful programmes. The Kit provides background information and research, lessons learned from existing projects, support materials and examples of good practices from international experiences to date.
Asia is a continent of diverse people speaking hundreds of languages and subscribing to different cultures, beliefs and religions. The tremendous diversity in Asia makes generalization about HIV/AIDS meaningless as it prevents understanding the specificity of the spread of HIV in the local social context, and the cultural sensitivity that renders strategies effective in one setting but useless in another. Against the background of such…
This report is envisaged as a tool to stimulate common understanding of the nature and dimensions of HIV/AIDS advocacy, and as a framework for joint action by UNFPA/UNAIDS and their partners at the international, regional, sub-regional and national levels. It can also be the basis for building consensus about priority advocacy activities in the light of the realities of HIV/AIDS challenges and necessary responses in particular settings. The…
These Briefing Cards include a summary highlighting the program's commitment to action, related program issues, and areas for action on topics that include: a rights-based approach, life cycle approach, violence against women, safe motherhood, unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortion, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, STDs/HIV/AIDS, and fertility and population growth.Article can also be accessed on-line here in Spanish PDF format.
The full report investigates women's status in the context of globalization from the mid 1980s through the late 1990s. The report shows that only eight nations have successfully met global agreements to achieve both gender equality in secondary education enrollment and at least a 30 per cent share of women's seats in parliament. This document is an extract from Chapter One of the report, which focuses on Empowerment and Economics. Although…
The study described in this document gathered information on the perspectives, needs, and preferences of women and communities regarding mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV. Funded by GlaxoWellcome and UNAIDS, research was conducted between October 1999 - May 2000 in two African countries, Botswana and Zambia. The central goal of the study was to obtain information and data that could be used to improve the effectiveness and…
This is a discussion paper prepared for the Satellite Symposium, "Putting Third First - Critical Legal Issues and HIV/AIDS". The paper makes a fundamental assumption that if efforts to change sexual behaviour is at the core of reducing HIV infection and if efforts to change sexual behaviour require changes in the social and economic power relations in society, then our ability to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic is inextricably linked to our…
Approximately one year after the start of the female condom social marketing program in Zimbabwe, the Horizons Project and Population Services International conducted a descriptive, cross-sectional study of female condom users, male condom users, and non-users of either barrier method. The goal of this research was to increase understanding of the patterns and dynamics of female condom use in order to inform policymakers and program…
The expert group meeting in 2000 reviewed the topics of HIV/AIDS, gender, human rights and human security and their inter-linkages. The meeting discussed the basic rights to be addressed in this context and adopted a number or recommendations for immediate action and specific recommendations addressing particular actors and areas of concern. This document is a summary of key issues involved in promoting human security and human rights in…
Human rights have been central to the international community's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This approach initially emphasized the inclusion of, and non-discrimination against, particular risk groups. However, as the epicenter of the epidemic has moved from the first to the third world and from (gay white) men to (poor black) women, the rights emphasis has begun to shift from a focus on individual rights of privacy and non-…
This report provides new insights about the complexity of addressing men's and women's needs in an equitable fashion. It underlines the importance of having well organized reproductive health services that integrate family planning with sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention programmes, including HIV/AIDS. It proposes programme directions, suggests programme indicators, discusses programming considerations, and informs about innovative…
FAS organized a workshop on the theme "Linking AIDS to Women's Peace Advocacy" from April 3-7, 2000. The workshop took place at the OAU Conflict Management Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It drew together women from Africa to consider the issues of gender and HIV/AIDS in peace advocacy in the continent. The publication explores the nature of the epidemic and the lessons that can be learned from the workshop.
"Living for Tomorrow" is a development and research HIV prevention project based in Estonia, targeting young people and the difficulties faced by educators in actively involving youth in safe sexual behavior. Its approach is to build sexual health awareness while looking at how gender norms in society actually dictate and produce unsafe and damaging sexual relations between men and women.
This report is a compilation of a number of innovative and promising interventions in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention at the international, regional, and local levels. It contains a section entitled "What works with Women and Men?", which discusses the gender dimensions of HIV prevention initiatives and includes case studies from Namibia, Jamaica, Honduras, Brazil, Uganda and Zambia.
This document is a transcript of the plenary address given by Geeta Rao Gupta at the XIII International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, in 2000. In accordance with the title, Geeta Rao Gupta focuses on the what, why and how of gender, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. Emphasis is placed on exploring gender-sensitive and transformative approaches to the epidemic.