HIV-related restrictions on entry,

• HIV-related restrictions on entry, stay and residence eliminated in half of the countries that have such restrictions.

In 2010, 49 countries, territories and areas impose some form of restriction on the entry, stay and residence of people living with HIV based on HIV status. To restrict liberty of movement or choice of residence based on suspected or real HIV status alone, including HIV screening of international travellers is discriminatory.

UNAIDS calls for the global freedom of movement for people living with HIV and the elimination of discriminatory HIV-related travel restrictions।

• HIV-specific needs of women and girls are addressed in at least half of all national HIV responses.

Women make up nearly 52% of the global total of people living with HIV. In sub-Saharan Africa, 60% of people living with HIV are women and girls.

HIV-related funding do not fully address women’s vulnerabilities, for example, programmes for discordant couples, young women and female sex workers and programmes to change harmful gender norms and economic disempowerment.

UNAIDS calls for building on the synergies between the gender and AIDS response for positive change to the lives of women and girls. All women and girls vulnerable to HIV should benefit from a wide range of prevention, treatment, care and support programmes that are tailored to the particular realities of their lives. Integration of HIV and sexual and reproductive health programmes.