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Reversing the Impact of HIV & AIDS on Women & Girls: Balancing the Scale

Explore the disproportionate burden on women and girls in the face of HIV & AIDS and the importance of men playing complementary roles in care and support. Learn about strategies to empower women and girls and transform societal norms.

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Reversing the Impact of HIV & AIDS on Women & Girls: Balancing the Scale

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  1. Reversing the Impact of HIV & AIDS on Women & Girls: Balancing the Scale Folashade .A. Bamigboye. Programme Manager, Kids & Teens Resource Centre, Nigeria +2348035077737

  2. Objectives • To showcase the workload between men and women • To ensure that Men are willing to play complementary roles to share in the care and support for persons living with HIV.

  3. Introduction • By virtue of biological makeup and nature, women and girls are disproportionately vulnerable to HIV (In sub-Saharan Africa, women acquire HIV five to seven years earlier than men). Incidentally they are the champions for impact mitigation interventions and unfortunately the poorest economically. • Women account for two thirds of all caregivers for people living with HIV in Africa; women also comprise 70% of the world’s poor and two-thirds of the world’s illiterate. (UNAIDS 2008: Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, Executive Summary).

  4. What can women and girls do to contribute more actively to HIV response? • What complementary roles can men play to share the care and support responsibilities

  5. I am a young woman. I face these issues. Source: UNAIDS GAP report 2014

  6. Why women and girls carry the burden • Gender-inequality drives HIV & AIDS • Weak public health systems • Societal norms and custom • Community & home based care in response to HIV & AIDS • Policies that do not translate into action

  7. Balancing the Scale • Greater involvement of men and boys in delivering home and community based care; • Strengthening public health systems. • End all forms of gender-based violence • Keep girls in school • Empower young women and girls, challenge and change social norms

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