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The brief provides an overview of gender analysis in the context of AIDS and development projects - and provides a methodology for integrating gender issues at different stages of the project cycle. This analysis can help program planners understand how men and women navigate the gender pressures that put them at risk for HIV infection and that increase the impact of HIV and AIDS in a community.
mothers2mothers (m2m) is a peer support program that aims to provide education and psychosocial support to HIV-positive pregnant women and new mothers, help women access existing health care services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), and follow up with mothers and babies to ensure they receive appropriate medical care after delivery. This report describes first evaluation of the program.
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 issue paper from the Seventh Meeting of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights defines the intersection of HIV and violence against women, discusses partnerships, UNAIDS objectives, and next steps.
The publication traces this journey, capturing the processes that led to the formation of the Positive Women Network and its growth.
The study is a joint initiative of the Institute of Public Administration and UNIFEM South Asia Regional Office with an objective to understand the impact of HIV/AIDS entering the home and on the lives and livelihoods of women care givers in situations of poverty. Focusing on the existing coping mechanisms, the study is also attentive to short and long term policy initiatives needed to reduce the burden of care.
This Horizons report provides a case study of a process to bring key technical sectors together with communities in a partnership for reducing food insecurity among HIV-affected households in Tororo, Uganda. The Partners for Food Security (PAFOSE) project aimed to identify and promote ways to improve food security using approaches that integrate knowledge of HIV/AIDS, gender, nutrition, and agricultural extension. One of the key findings was…
"Twin Pandemics" is a 13-minute advocacy video focused on revealing some of the often unspoken realities surrounding the convergence of HIV/AIDS and violence against women in a global context. This exploration is focused not only on how one pandemic perpetuates the other, but also on the systemic issues surrounding them both.
This report describes the partnership between UNIFEM South Asia, the Positive Women Network and Centre for Advocacy and Research in enabling the building of a rights-based gender sensitive response to HIV/AIDS.
This paper demonstrates the importance of utilising official statistics from the voluntary counselling and testing centres (VCT) to determine the association between gender and HIV infection rates in Kenya. The study design adopted was a record based survey of data collected from VCT sites in Kenya. Of those who were tested, significantly more females tested positive and had twice as high a chance of being infected by HIV than males. The…
This video contains testimonies from HIV positive women in Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Argentina who have experienced violence. Available in Spanish only.Part 2 of this video can be found here.
This fact sheet describes the factors that put women in violent relationships at increased risk of becoming infected with HIV and other STIs and the benefits of using microbicides.
"With Women Worldwide: A Compact to End HIV/AIDS" outlines concrete actions to make the global response to HIV/AIDS work for women, and is supported by 260 organizations from 50 countries.
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 evaluation report describes the impact of support groups of women and children in the States of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi. The participatory evaluation assessed why and how the groups were formed, what helps and what hinders the start-up of support groups, what helps to the keep support groups going, and what hinders support groups.
This paper based on findings from the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS) describes caregivers' perspectives on providing care for HIV positive family members. The paper focuses on understanding what care provision means to family caregivers and in turn why they provide care. More centrally it highlights various aspects of the experience of providing care and the effects of care on caregivers' lives. The report highlights the role…
This guidebook is intended for use in working with men both to address gender norms that put men and their partners at risk for negative reproductive health outcomes. It is also designed to engage men in issues related to gender and reproductive health to prevent HIV infection and gender-based violence. It contains a variety of interactive educational activities on such topics as gender and sexuality, male and female sexual health, HIV and…
This article reports high levels of awareness about HIV prevention methods among women sex workers in southern China. It shows the women are using a range of contraceptive practices, and different methods to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI). This indicates that there will be high levels of willingness to use vaginal microbicides and female condoms when these become available. However, promoting the use of these new…
This briefing report describes how older people, particularly grandmothers, carry most of the emotional and financial burden as carers. Yet, their vital role is going unrecognized. This report calls for a major shift in the response to HIV/AIDS.
This workshop report from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance examines how to develop polices and programmes which promote condom use as an HIV prevention strategy. The report contains presentations and discussions from the workshop held in 2006, The topics explored include: the relationship between sexuality, gender and condom use; attempting to understand and work with the diverse personal and cultural reasons why people are resistant to using…