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Launched in Geneva ahead of the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, this publication outlines a radically simplified HIV Treatment platform that could decrease the number of AIDS-related death drastically and could also greatly reduce the number of new HIV infections. The report provides new UNAIDS and Zogby International public opinion polls which show, that nearly 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, countries continue to rank AIDS high…
This publication is the third volume of the USAID Health Policy Initiative’s “Investing in MENA Series.” The purpose of the curriculum is to support a sustainable HIV response in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region, centered on positive leadership, women’s leadership, prevention, education, and mentorship, as well as gender equality and sensitivity. Structured as a three-day workshop, it is the first curriculum of its kinds to be…
This report is a synthesis of the key insights, questions, challenges and recommendations that emerged from a meeting held to explore emerging insights into the linkages between economic empowerment and HIV outcomes for girls and your women. It addresses two key questions: 1) What are the links between economic status and HIV vulnerability of girls and young women? and 2) What is the role of economic empowerment in preventing and mitigating HIV…
This report outlines a methodology for integrating gender into the Policy Implementation Barriers Analysis (PIBA) activity which was designed to pilot a methodology and set of tools to identify key barriers to implementing programs under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The project integrated gender into the PIBA activity to help underscore the various needs of women and men within the context of barriers to…
This report highlights the critical importance of ensuring that gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to the aid effectiveness agenda and attempts to identify the extent to which HIV funding is contributing to an environment that supports gender equality and promotes women’s rights. It includes an assessment of the effectiveness of current aid flows in combating inequality and violations of women’s rights that have contributed the…
This publication represents an initial effort to draw attention to the knowledge, institutional capacity, and resources needed to comprehensively address the intersection between HIV and AIDS and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). It profiles ten organizations that are working on innovative strategies to address the intersection between violence against women and HIV/AIDS, and highlights key elements to consider in the implementation of…
This publication provides a descriptive analysis of how adolescent girls and young women construct notions of risk and safety within the context of HIV/AIDS, and what strategies they develop to protect themselves. The study is based on data from interviews held with 821 young women aged from 15-24 from four communities of urban Lusaka, and supplemented by qualitative data from focus group discussions and in-depth interviews. Information from…
This publication is the third report produced by the Women Won’t Wait Campaign aimed at holding institutions accountable for turning policy rhetoric into practice in response to the intersecting crisis of HIV and violence against women and girls. This publication analyses the policies, programming, and funding patterns of five agencies: UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, the World Bank, the US Government’s…
This report analyzes why and how HIV/AIDS is now disproportionately affecting women, as individuals and in their roles as mothers and care-givers. It also explores new gender sensitive approaches to fighting HIV/AIDS and suggests that in order to be effective, it is necessary to deal with the inequality that both drive and are entrenched in the epidemic. The report discusses the meaning of a rights-based approach and addresses the evolution of…
The Action Framework (2009) was developed in response to the pressing need to address the persistent gender inequality and human rights violations that put women and girls at greater risk and vulnerability to HIV, and threaten the gains that have been made in preventing HIV transmission and increasing access to anti-retroviral treatment.
This publication provides a literature review of linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in order to gain a clearer understanding of the effectiveness, optimal circumstances, and best practices for strengthening these links. Finding highlight the benefits of linking policies, systems and services related to sexual and reproductive health and HIV…
Religious leaders are key stakeholders in responding to health and social issues and can play an influential role in validating and promoting best practices for preventing and reducing gender-based violence (GBV) and related vulnerability to HIV in their community. This report summarizes the USAID Health Policy Initiative project titled The Role of Religious Communities in Addressing Gender-based Violence and HIV. The project, which was designed…
This publication is intended to spark greater attention and inclusion of women, particularly those most affected by HIV and AIDS, as agents of change and experts through their experience. Through an analysis of information provided through interviews with over 100 key informants as well as global surveys and several case studies, it attempts to identifying where and in what ways women, particularly those most affected by the epidemic, are…
This publication focuses on the critical need to scale up policies and programming for women, girls, gender equality and HIV. The Action Framework focuses on the following three areas in which UNAIDS Cosponsors, Secretariat, and UNIFEM can bring specific and unique contributions: 1) strengthening strategic guidance and support to national partners to “know their epidemic and response” in order to effectively meet the needs of women and girls, 2…
This publication compiles and summarizes evidence to support successful interventions in HIV programming for women and girls. This is a comprehensive review, spanning 2,000 articles and reports with data from more than 90 countries, that highlights a number of interventions for which there is substantial evidence of success: from prevention, treatment, care and support to strengthening the enabling environment for policies and programming…
Diamonds: Stories of Women from the Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV is a compilation of the personal narratives of ten women and one girl who are HIV-positive. The publication is accompanied by a documentary that focuses on four of these stories.
Trailer can be viewed on-line here.
This paper provides an analysis of the gender policies and an update on the current state of gender programming and funding at the three financing institutions. By examining the way that gender concerns are being addressed, the paper highlights policy and programmatic trends related to gender that should be taken into account by the UNAIDS Secretariat’s gender strategy. The paper concludes with recommendations for UNAIDS and partners to more…
This paper commissioned by the Commonwealth Secretariat for the Eighth Women’s Affairs Ministers Meeting (8WAMM) convened in Kampala, Uganda in June 2007 examines the implications for gender equality of financing conditionalities for HIV and AIDS interventions. The core of this paper’s argument is that financing for development means financing to achieve equitable gender relations as central to the development process.
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…
In response to the growing body of evidence on violence and HIV & AIDS, and in response to calls by human rights advocates for effective action on these issues, international institutions and national governments have articulated a concern to address gender-based violence, including within the context of HIV&AIDS.
Little is known, however, about what is actually being done to address these issues in policies, programming and funding…