This fact sheets lists key recommendations and resolutions pertaining to women and the gendered aspects of the HIV pandemic, which carry with them significant implications for policies and programmes which attempt to address this global crisis.
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This fact sheet provides data and key points around Gender and HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Fact sheet on Gender and HIV/AIDS prepared for the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, June 2001.
The purpose of this resource guide is to give an overview of gender sensitive interventions and initiatives directly or indirectly related to health. Through mapping different experiences, the guide provides information on lessons learned, results achieved, and the challenges that have emerged in promoting gender and health equity.
This report discusses the gender dimensions of the impact of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on Uganda and some reference to Malawi. The primary focus of this report is the heterosexual transmission of HIV and its prevention, raising issues of gender and sexuality. The report provides an overview of the social epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Uganda and Malawi, discusses gender issues in vulnerability to HIV infection,…
Gender has an enormous impact on male and female behavior, but most young people are not aware of its effect on their lives. This kit will help peer educators and adults working with young people, to integrate gender issues into sexual and reproductive health programmes. It includes basic fact sheets, information on planning programmes, activities for peer educators and facilitators, activities for young people, and a resource list.
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This fact sheet outlines Population Council/Horizons aims to identify ways to improve HIV/AIDS programs and services through operations research that takes gender and sexuality into account.
This kit presents ideas for youth action on human rights and HIV/AIDS. It has been prepared in close consultation with young people from various youth organizations, in particular with students from the International Federation of Medical Students' Association and from the International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation. Based on the resources in this kit, however, young people from all regions will find a starting point here for their own…
This report discusses the gendered vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS women in Latin America and the Caribbean face and what is required to respond to their needs.
This PowerPoint Presentation provides an overview of women's vulnerabilities to HIV in the Latin America and Caribbean regions.
Fact sheet prepared for the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, June 2001. This fact sheet provides information on young people and their sexual behavior and the respect for and need to involve youth in setting targets for success.
The full report investigates women's status in the context of globalization from the mid 1980s through the late 1990s. The report shows that only eight nations have successfully met global agreements to achieve both gender equality in secondary education enrollment and at least a 30 per cent share of women's seats in parliament. This document is an extract from Chapter One of the report, which focuses on Empowerment and Economics. Although…
In Thailand, too many girls find themselves at an early age in the sex industry, usually for lack of other economic options. Young girls are desirable because they are thought to be "safe" and uninfected with HIV, but the risk of infection to them and thence to their clients is very high. This case study describes some responses to the problem, focusing on changing the attitudes of girls and their parents in regard to sex work, and on…
These Briefing Cards include a summary highlighting the program's commitment to action, related program issues, and areas for action on topics that include: a rights-based approach, life cycle approach, violence against women, safe motherhood, unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortion, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, STDs/HIV/AIDS, and fertility and population growth.
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This report is envisaged as a tool to stimulate common understanding of the nature and dimensions of HIV/AIDS advocacy, and as a framework for joint action by UNFPA/UNAIDS and their partners at the international, regional, sub-regional and national levels. It can also be the basis for building consensus about priority advocacy activities in the light of the realities of HIV/AIDS challenges and necessary responses in particular settings. The…
Asia is a continent of diverse people speaking hundreds of languages and subscribing to different cultures, beliefs and religions. The tremendous diversity in Asia makes generalization about HIV/AIDS meaningless as it prevents understanding the specificity of the spread of HIV in the local social context, and the cultural sensitivity that renders strategies effective in one setting but useless in another. Against the background of such…
The curriculum and fact sheets included in this document are designed to provide girls and young women with important HIV/AIDS and sexual health information, organized according to age (10-12, 13-15, 15+). The activities are designed to help them: acquire accurate information for themselves to share with their families and friends; become more confident on issues of sexual health, postpone sex and negotiate safer sex; learn about resources in…
The Female Health Company has developed the "Female Condom Programming Kit" to help policy makers, programme managers, donors and NGOs design, implement and monitor successful programmes. The Kit provides background information and research, lessons learned from existing projects, support materials and examples of good practices from international experiences to date.
This CD-ROM includes selected resources on gender and HIV/AIDS including: materials providing general overviews on gender and HIV/AIDS; male involvement; youth livelihoods, integration, parent to child transmission, voluntary counseling and testing, gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive rights, health of positive women, skills building and educational materials, as well as a bibliography of other resources in this issue area. …
A growing number of studies have documented the high prevalence of intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women worldwide. This violence can and does contribute to women's increased risk of HIV infection. However, questions remain about the connections and complexities between different forms of violence against women (VAW) and HIV/AIDS. Further research is needed to understand exactly how these two areas overlap and the…