This is a specifi c page of the ELDIS website dedicated to gender and HIV and AIDS.

Gender and AIDS


This is a specifi c page of the ELDIS website dedicated
to gender and HIV and AIDS. It provides information on
the latest research and developments with respect to
issues such as the link between violence and women
and HIV, the dissemination and use of the female
condom, and the development of microbicides. The
page also contains specifi c information and studies
about gender and men.
EngenderHealth: http://www.engenderhealth.org
EngenderHealth works in partnership with, and
provides technical assistance and training to, publicand
private-sector programmes and NGOs. Its work in
the area of HIV and STIs focuses largely on advocacy
to support improved HIV and AIDS programmes
and services, reducing stigma and discriminationincreasing male involvement, primary prevention and
behaviour change communication, and on linking
SRH and HIV & AIDS programmes.
GCWA: http://womenandaids.unaids.org/
issues_preventing.html
The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA) is
an alliance of civil society groups, networks of women
living with HIV and UN agencies, supported by activists,
political leaders and celebrities. The coalition focuses
on: universal education for girls; securing women’s
property and inheritance rights; reducing violence
against women; preventing HIV infection; promoting
access to prevention, including female condoms and
microbicides; ensuring women and girls have equitable
access to treatment and care; supporting women’s work
as caregivers; and, promoting women’s leadership.
ICRW: http://www.icrw.org
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
departs from the premise that a focus on women and
gender is necessary for lasting social and economic
change. ICRW focuses in particular on advocacy and
ensuring that lessons from research get translated into
concrete action on the ground. The website provides
insight into key research and lessons from the fi eld.
ICW: http://www.icw.org
The International Community of Women Living with HIV/
AIDS (ICW) is the only international network run for and
by HIV-positive women. Through its actions, ICW seeks
to ensure respected and meaningful involvement of
women at all political levels, to ensure full and equitable
access to care and treatment, and to promote the rights
of women in particular regarding sexual, reproductive,
legal, fi nancial and general health issues.
UNGEI: http://www.ungei.org
The United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI)
is the EFA fl agship for girls’ education, led by UNICEF
in partnership with other UN agencies, governments,
donors, NGOs, civil society partners, members of the
private sector, and communities and families. Launched
in April 2000 at the World Education Forum in Dakar,
UNGEI aims to narrow the gender gap in primary and
secondary education and to ensure that by 2015, all
children complete primary schooling, with girls and
boys having equal access to all levels of education.
UNICEF: http://www.unicef.org/gender
UNICEF recognises that HIV and AIDS disproportionately
affect women, with girls in most countries being much
more likely to become infected with the virus than boys
and with girls and women bearing most of the caretaking
responsibilities for those who are ill. UNICEF
supports innovative programmes to address gender
equality and to eliminate disparities of all kinds, and to
increase the capacities of adolescents, especially girls,
to prevent HIV.
UNIFEM Gender and AIDS Portal:
http://www.genderandaids.org
The United Nations Development Fund for Women
(UNIFEM), in collaboration with UNAIDS, developed
this portal to provide up-to-date information on the
gender dimensions of the HIV and AIDS epidemic.
The site aims to promote understanding, knowledge
sharing and action on HIV and AIDS as a gender and
human rights issue. The web portal contains research
(studies and surveys), training materials, multimedia
advocacy tools, speeches and presentations, press
releases and current news, best practices and
personal stories, as well as campaign actions and
opinion pieces by leading commentators.
WHO: http://www.who.int/gender/hiv_aids/
This page of the World Health Organization website
outlines key arguments for the importance of
gender issues in HIV and AIDS mainstreaming and
other interventions. The website contains updates
on women’s global health issues, on upcoming
events, as well as key publications (including case
studies and multi-country comparisons) for policymakers
and implementers on gender and HIV and
AIDS. Upcoming releases include a comprehensive
guideline for integrating gender in HIV and AIDS
programming, which targets programme planners to
help them include appropriate attention to gender in
VCT, prevention of mother-to-child-transmission of
HIV, care/treatment/support and home-based care
interventions.