Publication

Review paper, 'Integrating Gender into HIV/AIDS Programmes'

A Rights-Based Approach

Number of pages: 54

Publication date: 01 Jan 2006

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNAIDS

In the HIV/AIDS epidemic,gender – defined as the array of societal beliefs,norms, customs and practices that define ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ attributes andbehaviours – plays an integral role in determining an individual’s vulnerability to infection, his or her ability to access care, support or treatment, and the ability to cope when infected or affected.

UNFPA Haiti helps to prevent cholera in HIV sufferers

Published on: 07/01/2011

UNFPA Haiti Works to Prevent Cholera in People Living with HIV: People with compromised immune systems are particularly vulnerable to the cholera epidemic that has already affected hundreds of thousands. The right supplies and information can help keep the epidemic at bay.

UNFPA - Because Everyone Counts

Published on: 17/03/2011

UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies & programmes to reduce poverty & ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV, & every girl & woman is treated with dignity and respect.

African football series: Matshidiso, Sex Worker, Pretoria

Published on: 01/06/2010

Ahead of the 2010 World Cup in Africa, people from across the continent tell the stories of how football impacts on their lives in a new series of African Football Shorts.

Resources

Soap Operas for Social Change to Prevent HIV/AIDS:

Resource date: 2005

Author: Population Media Center (PMC)

Resources

Sexual and Reproductive Health & HIV/AIDS

Resource date: 2005

Author: WHO, IPPF, UNAIDS, & UNFPA

This framework proposes a set of key policy and programme actions to strengthen linkages between sexual and reproductive health care and HIV and AIDS programming. These linkages should work in both directions, by integrating HIV issues into ongoing sexual and reproductive health, and vice versa. The aim is to strengthen programming, reduce duplication of efforts, and make it easier for women and men to access comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care.

Resources

Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS

Resource date: 2006

Author: United Nations

This Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS represents a consensus of Heads of State and Government and leaders from all parts of the world at the end of the General Assembly’s High-Level review on AIDS in June 2006. The 53-paragraph document commits them to pursuing all necessary efforts to scale up national responses to achieve universal access to comprehensive prevention programmes, treatment, care and support in slightly more than forty months.

Resources

Preventing HIV/AIDS among Adolescents through Integrated Communication Programming

Resource date: 2003

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

Resources

HIV and Infant Feeding

Resource date: 2003

Author: WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNFPA

Resources

Investing in People -- A Summary

Resource date: 2004

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

A summary of the Global Survey that includes responses from 169 countries on the measures they have taken to implement the Cairo Programme of Action in the fields of population and development, gender equality, women's empowerment, reproductive rights and health and HIV/AIDS.

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