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Human Rights and Gender Equality in Health Sector Strategies: How to Assess Policy Coherence

This tool, developed in collaboration between WHO, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) is designed to support countries to strengthen national health strategies.

The tool poses critical questions to identify gaps and opportunities in the review or reform of health sector strategies. Analysis tables include critical questions rooted in…

Secretary Clinton Visits Buguruni Health Center in Tanzania

Today, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the Buguruni Health Center in Tanzania. The Health Center is an example of the coordinated services and care that the U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI) is designed to support around the world.  The first principle of GHI is a “focus on women, girls and gender equality.”  Read full article here.

High Level Meeting on AIDS: Thematic Panel - "Women, Girls and HIV"
This video documents the fourth thematic panel during the High Level Meeting on AIDS,  "Women, girls and HIV".  This panel focused on the disproportionate burden of HIV on women and girls and the need to ensure that their specific needs and vulnerabilities are adequately addressed. It highlighted the progress, challenges and opportunities in addressing the social determinants of women's and girl's vulnerability to HIV infection, as…
AIDS at 30: A Woman's Story

Today, the most likely victims of HIV/AIDS are young women. In countries most devastated by AIDS, such as those in sub-Saharan Africa, three young women are infected for every man that is infected. Read full article here.

UN Women: Young girls particularly vulnerable to AIDS

The UN meeting on AIDS this week marked the tenth anniversary of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS. Commitments made to regard gender equality in addressing this scourge as usual left women more prone to being infected and affected. Read full article here.

World leaders launch plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015

World leaders gathered in New York for the 2011 United Nations High Level Meeting on AIDS have today launched a Global Plan that will make significant strides towards eliminating new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive. Read full article here.

Prevention and Protection Save Lives: Girls, Women and HIV
High-Level Policy Forum that attracted over 120 ambassadors, ministers, parliamentarians, advocates, youth and media. Focus was on girls, women, and HIV.

 


Prevention and Protection Save Lives: Speech at IPI

Her Royal Highness Mette-Marit The Crown Princess of Norway spoke at the International Peace Institute at an event during the 2011 High Level Meeting on AIDS entitled Prevention and Protection Save Lives: Girls, Women and HIV.

   

When Masculinity Interferes with Women's Treatment of HIV Infection: A Qualitative Study About Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Zimbabwe
Social constructions of masculinity have been shown to serve as an obstacle to men's access and adherence to antiretroviral therapies (ART). In the light of women's relative lack of power in many aspects of interpersonal relationships with men in many African settings, our objective is to explore how male denial of HIV/AIDS impacts on their female partners' ability to access and adhere to ART.



In Women’s Words: HIV priorities for positive change

To bring to the forefront priority actions for the AIDS response put forward by women around the world ahead of the General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS, a special event was held on 7 June. Read full article here.

Living with HIV in Ukraine

Tetiana Afanasiadi is regional coordinator for Alliance Ukraine in Odessa, part of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance global partnership. Read full article here.

UNAIDS welcomes new UN Security Council resolution on HIV and preventing sexual violence in conflict

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) welcomes a new United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution on HIV which has been adopted at the UN Security Council in New York.   Read full article here.

Approaches to Gender and Sexuality: Responding to HIV
Gender and sexuality – and their related norms and practices – have long been recognised as key factors affecting the dynamics of HIV and the global response to it. This survey report, published by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, maps current work and assesses the capacity, challenges and aspirations around gender and sexuality programming. Whereas issues vary across communities and countries, the authors contend that power imbalances,…
It’s All One Curriculum: Guidelines and Activities for a Unified Approach to Sexuality, Gender, HIV, and Human Rights Education
The Population Council has created a two book set of guidelines and activities for a unified approach to sexuality, gender, HIV, and human rights education. In Book 1, GUIDELINES, you will find curriculum content that places gender issues and human rights at the heart of sex and HIV education. In Book 2, ACTIVITIES, you will find 54 activities that engage young people and foster critical thinking skills.


Alicia Keys Empowers Women at United Nations Conference

Alicia Keys is committed to making a change for women everywhere. The “Superwoman” was one of the celebrities invited to speak on the panel at “HIV Priorities for Positive Change: In Women’s Words” during the United Nations conference on AIDS in New York City.  Read full article here.

Annie Lennox - Lennox Slams World Leaders Over HIV Policy

The former Eurythmics star is a leading campaigner for women's rights and Aids prevention, and she was invited to address the HIV Priorities for Positive Change: In Women's Words conference at the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York on Tuesday. Read full article here.

Ending HIV Starts With Women

We can end HIV/AIDS right now if we want to. We already know how. We know how it's transmitted we know how to prevent and treat it. We're just not doing what it takes to end it. Read full article here.

UN Women’s Agency Sets Goals for High-Level HIV/AIDS Meeting

The United Nations agency charged with gender equality and women’s empowerment today presented concrete areas of focus and goals for the three-day, high-level meeting on AIDS. Read full article here.

Why won't the pope let women protect themselves from HIV?

As the UN reviews its HIV/Aids strategy, papal representatives are putting doctrine before African women's health. Read full article here.

In Women's Words: Frika Chia Iskandar
Frika Chia Iskandar, a young, HIV-positive woman and activist, spoke as a panelist at  In Women's Words,  a side-event at the 2011 High-Level Meeting on AIDS. Read her inspiring speech, her own story and her call to action during this powerful event.