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.
This programme aimed to promote women's access to property and inheritance rights as a means to reduce vulnerabilities to and mitigate the impact of HIV.
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.
Check out a new Toolkit for Action developed jointly by UN Women and the Queen Mary University of London on using a feature film ‘Pili’ about a woman living with HIV in Tanzania to mobilize action to address gender equality issues women living with HIV face
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.
Women who have been medical (and political) subjects of HIV/AIDS also have much to teach us during our current pandemic. Historically, women have been at the forefront of fighting to keep communities and families healthy.
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.
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...
UNAIDS report on the global AIDS pandemic 2020 shows that w omen and girls in sub-Saharan Africa...