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Cutting Edge Pack - Gender and HIV/AIDS
This publication outlines the importance of utilizing a rights-based approach to place HIV/AIDS within a gendered human rights framework. The report examines the evolving epidemic and critical challenges involved in transforming current programs to a gendered agenda. The knowledge pack offers practical examples of approaches from around the world, aimed at strengthen capacity, advocacy, service delivery, and research through explicitly…
Community-level Interventions against HIV/AIDS from a Gender Perspective
This report focuses on issues pertaining to community level health interventions, particularly within the African context. Examples of community-level initiatives in countries such as Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda are cited, with details on strategic perspectives that include men-centered programs, redistribution of resources, review of Structural Adjustment Programs, and grassroots initiatives that involve political and social mobilization.
Approaches for Empowering Women in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: a Gender Perspective
This is a transcript of Geeta Rao Gupta's presentation which views gender as a culture-specific construct and focuses on issues related to the heterosexual transmission of HIV/AIDS. The dynamics of power are examined within the context of sexuality, defined as a social construction of a biological drive. Approaches to empower women are outlined as part of the aim to combat the power imbalance and inequality in heterosexual relationships.
Gender and Development In Brief - Issue 11 - Gender and HIV/AIDS
This issue includes articles on the following topics: Gender, development and HIV/AIDS; Positive women: Voices and Choices; Can men change? And can we measure it? The bulletin explores why infection rates are still on the increase, after 20 years of international responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and why the numbers of women living with HIV are increasing faster than the number of men. It goes on to discuss what can be done to address a problem…
The Gender Aspects of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
The report highlights the need for inserting gender in the multi-sectoral response to HIV/AIDS. Ethical issues involved in testing pregnant women are reviewed, as well as the role of the educational sector in combating HIV/AIDS. Other topics that are addressed include the impact of HIV/AIDS on youth, law, on the labor market and in situations of conflict.