Gender Equality And HIV/AIDS
Comprehensive Web Portal for Gender Equality Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
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Explore our site to find valuable resources, cutting-edge research, and breaking news on the gender equality dimensions of HIV and AIDS. This site aims to promote understanding, knowledge sharing and action on the gender-based inequalities propelling the HIV epidemic.
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FeaturedFinancing for Gender Equality in the HIV Response
This publication provides experts' insights of existing gaps and recommendations going forward in to improve investments towards gender equality in the HIV response.
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Women's StoriesLiving with HIV and Violence: Women of Ukraine Speak Out and Build Solidarity
In Ukraine, peer-support groups and the National Women’s Forum on HIV is bringing awareness, action and new beginnings for women survivors of violence living with HIV.
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In the NewsThe ‘Education Plus’ Initiative (2021-2025) – Empowerment of adolescent girls and young women in Sub-Saharan Africa
The ‘Education Plus’ initiative is a drive to accelerate actions and investments to prevent HIV, centred on the empowerment of adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa.
In the News
Putting women in the centre of the global HIV response is key to achieving epidemic control
As we celebrated International Women’s Day and applauded the many successes that women have, and continue to achieve globally, we are also reminded of the many challenges that remain. HIV/AIDS continues to be one such challenge.
South Africa: Health Department to Investigate 'Forced' Sterilisations of Women Living With HIV
The Department of Health will investigate allegations that women living with HIV were coerced to undergo involuntary sterilisation. Last month, the Commission for Gender Equality released a report on the practice after an investigation that was prompted by a complaint it received in 2015.
Adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa more than twice as likely to acquire HIV
Between 1995 and 2018, the steepest decrease in new HIV infections among women occurred among adolescent girls and young women (aged 15 to 24 years)—a decline of 44% globally.
Recent Resources
Women and gender non-conforming people are disproportionately impacted by law enforcement in the...
Intersectionality refers to the ways in which different aspects of a person’s identity can expose...
Incorporating gender analysis into the rapidly developing scholarship on drug use, drug trade, drug...