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This publication provides experts' insights of existing gaps and recommendations going forward in to improve investments towards gender equality in the HIV response.
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.
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.
The bad news about HIV, as Winnie Byanyima sums up plainly, is that it “sits on top of socio-economic injustices”. The UNAIDS Executive Director was speaking at the launch of the report “We’ve Got The Power – women, adolescent girls and the HIV response”.
For many young women and girls, making safe and informed choices, which could limit their exposure to HIV, is no simple task. A young woman in poverty may be forced to exchange sex for favours, or to accept a marriage proposal from an older man.
Gender discrimination and violence, gaps in education and lack of economic empowerment and protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights are blocking progress.
The Global progress report on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections assesses the...
UNAIDS issued a new guidance on how to reduce stigma and discrimination in the context of COVID-19....
Many women and girls worldwide continue to face rejection, prejudice, economic insecurity, rights...