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This comprehensive gender and HIV/AIDS web portal provides up-to-date resources on the gender dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Read more...
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Resource Pack on Gender and HIV/AIDS
UNFPA and UNIFEM, as Co-Chairs of the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Gender and HIV/AIDS are pleased to announce the release of a new tool to assist in the response to HIV/AIDS - the Resource Pack on Gender and HIV/AIDS. Developed by the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Gender and HIV/AIDS, this Resource Pack aims to strengthen the impact of national HIV/AIDS programmes by tackling a key underlying factor that fuels the epidemic: gender inequality.
The Resource Pack analyzes the impact of gender relations on the AIDS epidemic and provides guidance, including tools for effective advocacy and programming and contains the following tools: Operational Guide on Gender and HIV/AIDS: A Rights-Based Approach. Read more...
Review paper, 'Integrating Gender into HIV/AIDS Programmes'. Read more...
17 Fact Sheets with concise information on gender-related aspects of HIV/AIDS. Read more...
Gender and HIV/AIDS Electronic Library on CD-ROM
UNIFEM, with support from UNAIDS, has released a Gender and HIV/AIDS Electronic Library on CD-ROM that compiles resources from this Web Portal. It includes research and studies, training resources and tools, and multimedia advocacy materials on the gender dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic produced by a variety of organizations. The Gender and HIV/AIDS Electronic Library is fully searchable by keyword and includes an easy-to-use tool called "e-Course Builder," which supports the creation of a tailored training course using the resources on the CD-ROM. The Library will be a useful resource for academics, policymakers, practitioners, journalists, students and others interested in the gender dimensions of the epidemic.
To obtain a copy, please send a request to unifem@genderandaids.org or follow the directions posted here on how you can download the CD-ROM directly.
Latest News
We're all leaders in the HIV/AIDS fight - Gcebile Ndlovu, one of the people living with HIV and an advocate for rights of such people has reiterated her concerns about media reports that suggest undermining people with HIV. Read More...
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Political Declaration on AIDS - A new political declaration on AIDS that strengthens the world’s response to the epidemic was presented to member states for adoption. In his remarks at the General Assembly High Level Meeting, Secretary-General Kofi Annan called AIDS “the greatest challenge of our Generation.” Read More...
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One step forward, two back, at AIDS summit - Warning that the battle against AIDS was at risk, the UN asked delegations at a major conference yesterday to stop opposing the mention of condoms, safe drug use and funding goals in a document that will help guide efforts to fight the illness over the next 10 years. Yet governments still disagreed strongly on those issues and others including drug patents, empowering girls, and exact financial targets. Read More...
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On AIDS, Annan tells world leaders: Do more - On the final day of a crucial United Nations special session on HIV/AIDS, Secretary General Kofi Annan delivered a gloomy assessment Friday of global efforts to fight the epidemic, saying the world was losing the battle. "The epidemic continues to outpace us," he told a jammed session of the General Assembly. "There are more new infections than ever before, more deaths than ever before, more women and girls infected than ever before". Read More...
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UN meeting: last minute lobbying on vulnerable groups, gender - Civil society advocates at the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York say that overnight negotiation may have moved the political declaration towards text that is more supportive of universal access to prevention, treatment and care, and which acknowledges the existence of `vulnerable groups`. Read More...
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Tackling AIDS pandemic requires guarding rights of women - Participants at a major United Nations conference in New York today reviewed the increasing prevalence of HIV/AIDS in women compared to men. Panelists discussed the importance of women's rights being at the center of the AIDS response. Read More...
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'Don't kill us with diplomacy' person with HIV tells UN AIDS meeting - Following a meeting with persons living with HIV who are attending a major United Nations meeting on AIDS in New York, Secretary-General Kofi Annan reported their appeal to diplomats not to negotiate away past gains in a declaration to be adopted by the end of the three-day session, which concludes Friday. Read More...
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Secretary-General says visionary leadership vital to reverse spread of HIV/AIDS - Visionary leadership and an unprecedented partnership among Governments, the private sector and civil society were called for to meet the goal of reversing the spread of HIV and AIDS by 2015, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the opening session of the General Assembly’s High-Level Meeting on AIDS. Read More...
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The vital but underestimated role of AIDS caregivers - Swaziland's home-based caregivers are too few and too poorly paid to cope with the growing numbers of bedridden AIDS patients, but in the absence of adequate health facilities and trained professionals, they are seen as the immediate answer to a national emergency. Read More...
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Reporting on HIV/AIDS in South Africa disappointing, says study - Media watchdog groups Gender Links and Media Monitoring Project have slammed South Africa's media for not addressing the problem of AIDS adequately even as the country struggles against the HIV virus. In a joint study, the groups found that only two per cent of news items in the media in the country with the highest rate of HIV prevalence were about HIV and AIDS. In addition, the study said that gender dimensions of the HIV pandemic were reflected poorly in the stories. Read More...
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Global Campaigns
16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
This year's 16 Days campaign theme emphasizes the connections between women's human rights, violence against women and women's health, and the detrimental consequences violence against women has on the well-being of the world as a whole. Read more...
World AIDS Day Campaign
The World AIDS Campaign from 2005 to 2010 is calling on individuals and groups to support the theme “Stop AIDS. Keep the promise” aimed at governments and policy makers. Read more...
Global Coalition on Women and AIDS
The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS is an informal grouping of partners and organizations working to mitigate the impact of AIDS on women and girls worldwide. Read More...
New Report Launched
Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis (PDF format).
This report documents the devastating and often invisible impact of AIDS on women and girls and highlights the ways discrimination, poverty and gender-based violence help fuel the epidemic.
Key Facts and Statistics .(PDF format)
Women''s Stories .(PDF format)
Executive Summary .(PDF format)
Women Speak
Kamalika Abeyaratne dedicated her life to caring for children in Sri Lanka and had a wide circle of friends, until she discovered she was HIV positive. "Most of my friends then stopped coming home. Some of my doctor colleagues still cross the road when they see me approaching," says the 66-year-old medical doctor and paediatrician, who now spends most of her time helping others living with HIV or with AIDS. Read more...
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