Gender and HIV
Addressing gender inequality and harmful gender norms is essential to reducing the risk of the vulnerability to HIV infection, to mitigate the impact of the epidemic, and to improve health outcomes. PEPFAR proactively promotes the integration of five gender strategies into all its programs:
- Increasing gender equity into HIV/AIDS programs and services, including in reproductive health
- Reducing violence and coercion
- Addressing male norms and behaviors
- Increasing women’s legal rights and protection
- Increasing women’s access to income and productive resources, including education.
AIDSTAR-One provides technical assistance resources to programs to increase their capacity to integrate gender strategies into their activities and disseminates evidence on how gender strategies are being implemented and replicated by programs around the world.
See a preview of all gender resources (PDF, 1.3 MB): English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Gender New & Noteworthy Queue
Gender Compendium Case Studies
From these 31 programs, 5 were selected as subjects for the following in-depth case studies.
Addressing HIV and Gender from the Ground Up in Kenya
Allowing Men to Care: Fatherhood Project in South Africa
Earning Their Way to Healthier Lives: Women First in Mozambique
Rebuilding Hope: Polyclinic of Hope Care and Treatment Project, Rwanda
Risky Business Made Safer: HIV Prevention in Zambia's Border Towns
Learn about all the programs and the strategies they employ: Explore Programs.
- G3Ps
- Tech Briefs
- Case Studies
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Programa H stimulates young men to question...
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Stepping Stones is a workshop series...
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HIV infection and intimate-partner violence...