This pamphlet outlines steps for national-level stakeholders to expand action on gender equality to strengthen the AIDS response. It provides six, distinct recommendations on how to do so for various stakeholders such as National AIDS Authorities, Civil Society, Donor Communities, and the UN System.
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The Global Fund’s commitment to addressing gender inequality in their HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria responses are highlighted in this 2-page brief.
The trends of HIV transmission in the Pacific Islands reveal that transmission is steadily continuing despite any responses, women are more likely to be infected at younger ages than men, and more of them are being infected than ever before. This report stresses that HIV programs in the Pacific Islands do not adequately incorporate gender relations and social structures fundamental to understanding and preventing…
This 2014-16 Action Plan to engage in Gender Equality Strategy focuses on high-impact, gender responsive investments to prevent new infections and treat existing ones. The plan includes their objective-wise, logical framework to ensure all activities of the Global Fund integrate gender equitable partnerships, policies, and practices.
This webpage provides a comprehensive understanding of how gender inequalities are linked to increased HIV vulnerabilities. It discusses many different aspects of inequality in relation to HIV, including violence, social norms, education, legislation, poverty and more. It also provides information on what global-level commitments exist to combat gender inequalities and reduce the disproportionate burden of HIV on women and…
The HIV epidemic disproportionately impacts young women due to socio-economic inequalities, violence, racism, sexism, and constraints on women’s agency. This article uses data from UNAIDS’ 2010 Global Report to understand the relationship between mode of HIV transmission and gender inequality. It also looked into relationships between HIV transmission and religion, democracy index, male circumcision rate, gross national income, and region.…
This report discusses the need for women, particularly pregnant women, and children living with HIV to be receive adequate medical care and for there to be increased HIV prevention services for women in high-burden countries. In this paper, there is a strong focus on gender barriers women face in preventing or treating HIV such as: stigma against women living with HIV, gender power relations, fear of violence and…
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/…
This paper discusses the gender and sexual dimensions of two civil wars, in Liberia and Sierra Leone. It examines the linkages between conflict, violence against women, and risk of exposure to HIV. It uses gendered analysis to also look at post-conflict transitions in Africa.
The Global Fund is a financing institution which supports countries to incorporate gender dimensions of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria into their strategic plans, policies, and programs. The Gender Equality Strategy report explores how the Global Fund can continue to support gender equality and strengthening of responses to women and girls. Specific areas that require immediate attention and inclusion into the Fund’s…
In Africa, sustainable growth occurs through infrastructure development while protecting the environment and health, particularly HIV risks for women and girls. This guideline provides key responsibilities of stakeholders in the environmental assessment process to integrate HIV and gender as a key issue in sustainable development of eastern and southern Africa.
The 2010 Forced Migration Review is a compilation of various topics addressing the linkages between HIV and conflict. Articles which look into the gendered aspects of HIV and conflict are: ‘Gendered Violence and HIV in Burundi’ (pg. 18), ‘Understanding Sexual Violence, HIV/AIDS, and Conflict’ (pg. 22), and ‘Addressing HIV and Sex Work’ (pg. 25).
Gender equality is one of the main drivers of new HIV infections worldwide. In order to half the epidemic, it is necessary to address unequal power dynamics between men and women, which often increases risks of HIV. This report talks about how men can work towards gender equality by making positive behavioral changes towards communication, peer influence, gender attitudes, and more.
This toolkit is designed to inform HIV prevention programs for women and adolescent girls in the United States. It mainstreams gender as a component throughout the toolkit, and focuses on promoting greater understandings of how gender norms, roles, and inequalities affect HIV risk-related behaviors. It promotes safer sex and accessing prevention and care services.
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This report brings together many expert organizations in the fields of gender and HIV to explain how gender roles strongly influence the spread of HIV and how important it is to use multi-level approaches to create effective programs. To give examples of existing programs that do so, a collation of 31 HIV programs were described, all having gender strategic features to address harmful practices against women and girls.
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This journal article uses the It’s All One curriculum by Population Council as an example for how critical it is for programs to incorporate gender norms and human rights into their approach. Field experiences from the curriculum are shared and suggestions that an empowerment and human rights approach is most effective in teaching young people about sexual health and HIV prevention.
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.
This report shares the findings from a multi-stage review of the access women have to anti-retroviral therapy (ART). This review is critical in understanding key barriers women face when accessing HIV treatment and ways to address them in order for women to receive the care they need.
This paper calls men and adolescent boys to action to advance gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights without practicing harmful gender norms. It also addressed the need to reach more men and boys for HIV prevention, testing and counseling, and care services.
The purpose of this guide is to highlight the key linkages between gender, human rights, and HIV/AIDS. It identifies four critical operational areas and how to reduce women and girls’ vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS from each area. A checklist for each section is provided for programmers to assess if gender equality is embedded in each operational area.