Gender Mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS: Seminar Proceedings from the Satellite Session Held During the 7th AIDS Impact Conference, Cape Town, 2005Current trends of HIV transmission and prevalence clearly show that the epidemic is fuelled by gender-based vulnerabilities. Close to 60 per cent of adults living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and almost 75 per cent of young people living with HIV in southern Africa are female. |
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Page 58 - Secretary General's Task Force on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa...
Page 16 - AIDS cases continue to be among men who have sex with men and among injecting drug users, cases due to heterosexual contact have been increasing over the last several years.
Page 4 - Gender mainstreaming has happened when policy planners and researchers have internalised the gender perspective and no longer have to be conscious of their behaviour; when their behaviour pattern has changed and become natural; when they can identify the conditions that affect men and women differently, those that affect men more than women and those that affect women more than men; when they can identify risk factors for men and women for each of their conditions and develop different interventions...
Page 19 - GBA is a systematic process that takes place through the course of a given activity, whether it is the analysis or development of policy, programmes, research or legislation. As it becomes standard practice to integrate a genderbased perspective into our work, from beginning to end, gender-based analysis should become an essential tool in our work on HIV and AIDS (Health Canada 2000).
Page 3 - Commission, an expert group meeting on 'Women and Health - Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective into the Health Sector' was held from 28 September to 2 October 1998 in Tunis, Tunisia.
Page 19 - GBA provides a framework for analysing and developing policies, programmes and legislation, and for conducting research and data collection; a framework that recognises that women and men are not all the same.
Page 18 - It helps to bring forth and clarify the differences between women and men, the nature of their social relationships and their different social realities, life expectations and economic circumstances. It identifies how these conditions affect women and men's health status and their differential vulnerability to HIV and AIDS.
Page 42 - Women (UNIFEM) and the University of the West Indies, Centre for Gender and Development Studies, St.
Page 5 - HIV/AIDS-related research expertise and knowledge, and conducting multi-site and multi-country exploratory, cross-sectional, comparative or intervention-based research projects, within an African context. As part of its concerted action, an annual conference is convened to foster...